Sure, they thought they didn’t need the capability anymore, that satellites would keep making it more and more obsolete and here we are, when they realize those satellites will last as long as it takes for a missile or hunter killer to intercept it in a real peer nation war.
And now they’re finding out the factory that provided the titanium or polycarbonate whatever got moved to Beijing in 2004.
That or this is all a very stupid PR stunt, or they just wanted to strip it for parts, who the hell knows?
Shit, if you told me Trump just sold it to the Saudis and pocketed the cash that’s believable too.