one of the most instructive things about the whole catastrophe is that the US ruling class actually - with a few exceptions - has no morals or values and will not actually intervene to stop "bad" things, even "bad" things happening in obviously "bad" ways.
This article must be written in very simple French, because I could read most of it despite not knowing French.
"government can't do anything right. Elect us and we'll prove it"
There's cost cutting and there's insanity.
Can they communicate via proxy or public mailing lists or is accidental communication also forbidden? Can NOAA guys read French NOTAMs?
Cutting off funding is stupid. Cutting off communication is pathological.