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The only reason the US Gov had the expertise and resources to fund DARPA in the first place was because it was a massive capitalist country with enormous wealth

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Which is very well known for collecting taxes, right? :D

Did the USSR have a space program?

Yeah but like didn’t it bankrupt them?

Meanwhile the USA barely blinked at the Space Race spending

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