Ah: the “race to the bottom” for this world’s viability has now lit-up afterburners, has it?
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Right now in Iran, if you want to help someone get a vaguely optional surgery like let’s say a replacement knee, you have to bribe the doctors with literal gold.
What else can be expected?
Unlike other countries’ health care systems where it’s cash or credit card.
Oh for sure, I’m not defending healthcare in the USA. Actually I think I’d rather bribe my doctor directly than to pay insurance and the be denied and then still pay out of pocket.
Although I forgot to mention you need to supply the parts for surgery of this kind and sourcing a prosthesis is a bit odd…might get lucky on alibaba.
Just when you’re celebrating the collapse of your enemy, you realize that all their armaments are hitting the secondary or black markets, going into who-knows-whose hands. Same thing happened with the breakup of the USSR. Nukes were “lost.”
There is no public evidence nukes were lost and this is largely due to US Nunn-Lugar program and similar programs.
There is very public evidence. A former national security advisor Alexander Lebed claimed that 100 nuclear suitcase bombs had been “lost track of” on the TV program 60 minutes. That’s not very hard evidence, but it’s certainly worrying. And I don’t know what kind of hard evidence you could reasonably hope to get over such a damning and embarrassing state of affairs. Is Russia going to issue a report documenting how they lost 100 portable nukes? Doubtful.
