We heard about the Rod of God back in Bush Sr's administration. The Americans were developing it, or so they said at the time. Never saw it in action though. Just big talk, and not much since then. Also, the world has changed.
TBH, I think that everything went down-hill because of stupid 'military interventions' based on lies. What did they manage to achieve? Iraq is only just beginning to scrape itself out of a hole after twenty years. Libya is a sh*tshow, and Afghanistan is reconstructing the Taliban as a legitimate force, who are negotiating with the Chinese, the Indians and the Russians to build roads and railways. Was that USA's intention - to keep out the 'others'? The excuse was that mysterious cloth-heads who supposedly flew aeroplanes into the Pentagon and twin-towers, were 'hiding' in Afghanistan. So, USA had to go in. Twenty years later, they 'had to leave'. What a mess.
Russia has just taken the Taliban OFF their terror-watch-list, BTW.
Just as USA makes enemies, Russia makes nice.
Also, throw in a good measure of succesive USA administrations putting all the research eggs in one basket, re: F35. It still hasn't managed to resolve itself.
We heard about the Rod of God back in Bush Sr's administration. The Americans were developing it, or so they said at the time. Never saw it in action though. Just big talk, and not much since then. Also, the world has changed.
TBH, I think that everything went down-hill because of stupid 'military interventions' based on lies. What did they manage to achieve? Iraq is only just beginning to scrape itself out of a hole after twenty years. Libya is a sh*tshow, and Afghanistan is reconstructing the Taliban as a legitimate force, who are negotiating with the Chinese, the Indians and the Russians to build roads and railways. Was that USA's intention - to keep out the 'others'? The excuse was that mysterious cloth-heads who supposedly flew aeroplanes into the Pentagon and twin-towers, were 'hiding' in Afghanistan. So, USA had to go in. Twenty years later, they 'had to leave'. What a mess.
Russia has just taken the Taliban OFF their terror-watch-list, BTW.
Just as USA makes enemies, Russia makes nice.
Also, throw in a good measure of succesive USA administrations putting all the research eggs in one basket, re: F35. It still hasn't managed to resolve itself.