With poverty soaring, unelected leaders of island kingdom continue undeterred with their wmd program:

“It left the submarine but it just went plop, right next to them.”

Militaristic regime offered further explanations: "The whole point of the hundreds of billions we are spending on the nuclear weapons programme is that it is supposed to work.”

At the same time, food bank use is soaring

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/feb/21/labour-seeks-trident-assurances-after-missile-test-anomaly

  • SwitchyWitchyandBitchy [she/her]
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    11 months ago

    The Ministry of Defence said that an “anomaly occurred” during the exercise involving the submarine HMS Vanguard on 30 January that was “event specific”, implying it would not have happened in the unlikely event of a war.

    Yes because weapons are famously more reliable during war than in peacetime.