The main thing here is that falsified paperwork means the source of the titanium is suspect. The raw titanium could have been sourced from a sanctioned nation. Or the subcontractor changed their titanium source and did not update their documentation.
Titanium was certainly supplied and used. The audit is questioning other aspects of where it came from.
It started while Trump was trying to act like the pandemic was a hoax. So I'm not that surprised. Article also says Biden shut it down in spring of 2021 which wasn't long after he was sworn in.
But sure. If the left in the US exited and showed up to vote it could have taken over the DNC like the tea party did the GOP. I've voted Bernie every time I could. Others didn't. But none of that is relevant to a legitimate action of keeping Jill Stein from helping get Trump elected.
Stein is a Russian asset so I for one fully support this move to block her. It's not even sly. They tried this shit in 2016 and it helped Trump so they're just running back that same plan.
Pandemic accelerated it a lot. Couple projects I was on were to move production lines out of China to Mexico, Malaysia, and India. The move to India was pre-pandemic to avoid Trump tariffs. The other two were during the pandemic to avoid Chinese lockdowns.
Similar reason to why I've backed way off to mostly lurking. That and most of the subs I was on in like aviation, space, other technology and engineering things don't exist here. But I'm happy to give it time. Reddit took a long while to build those communities too.
Lots of people are incredibly stupid. Many of those stupid people are also selfish and mean. It will always be easy to appeal to those people by blaming all their problems on others. Until science figures out a way to force on the empathy parts of our brains, we'll go through these cycles of stupid people cheering on fascism.