> israel didnt think iran had hypersonic ballistics missiles either. russia probably helped them they most likely knew they had them, but probably didn't know they had the capability to mass-produce them. russians had used only a handful of kinzhal against ukraine. the entire world must have shat their pants.   i read a report on how bad the cia is having it right now. the most interesting part is that they admitted they focused on financial/business power/expansion, and now there's no people with the training to even keep track of all the advances in sciences. they reorganized their priorities/projects/departments over a year ago. until then they had the whole 'middle east' as a single project. they moved iran out of it, on the same level as china and russia. gonna look for it again, it was candid, and a bit pitiful. the us, a financial power, trying to outcompete scientific powers. they think they could get back, though, if they managed to obtain the research the russians and chinese did. but human expertise is currently the most scarce commodity, so they'd still have it hard, climbing back on top agian.
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