The subtext is that it was an advertisement for the MX missile. "Don't spend more on the MIC and this will certainly happen."

  • ChairmanSpongebob [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    This is of course all totally insane and wouldn't ever happen this way in reality. They had to scare themselves into "look what you made me do: spending billions on weapons while society crumbles around us"