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And by American interests we mean the interests of the arms manufacturer that made the drone
I imagine there’s some semi-innocuous sounding KPI named like minimum ordnance delivery that was agreed upon with an arms manufacturer to guarantee inventory turnover thereby guarantee profits
Isn’t that why so many municipal police departments end up with a fuckton of equipment made for war zones? It’s the military offloading surpluses it doesn’t need, and city governments are always willing to throw down big on their police budgets.