Would you apply this same logic of your own country or is it just because it’s far away and maybe you don’t care so much for brown people?

Have you tried eating dog food to help the shareholders yet?

US sells/provides/uses so many armaments around the world that it’s laughable to think Russia doesn’t already have their hands on at least a vast chunk of our “tech”. Surely trying to reverse-engineer what they can, as I’m sure any country does to foreign equipment.

Usually it’s the manufacture process of tech that is the “secret sauce”.

“Stop the price-gouging…”, the unspoken bit after is “… they’re starting to catch on”

Capital is king, and Joe kneels at the throne at the end of the day.

Communism is covert fascism? Why then did fascists round up and kill communists? The two are wholeheartedly opposed to each other.

OH SAY CANNN YOUUU SEEEE

That might be the stated intent, but it seems plain that once the leaders are in positions of power and authority, they abuse their power. This is why, as fallible as is democracy, it is superior.

Do you think that socialism/communism is not a democratic system?

The pitfalls of our current systems preclude us getting to the point of utilizing space to any meaningful extent. Better to forgo the hypothetical Star Trek romanticized fiction and just fix what we have here; then maybe we can think about that stuff.

At this stage, the mere mention of any such possibility is a distraction from the gravity of the situations we face. It’s a mere tool to keep the apple cart going, while people are literally dying from our own collective hubris.