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Always true in recent wars. $100B/yr in Afghanistan, could pay off almost every combatant for a fraction.
by bobsil1 10y ago
Always true in recent wars. $100B/yr in Afghanistan, could pay off almost every combatant for a fraction.
- gscott 10y agoMost of the combatants are doing it for the money. Plenty of articles on dads planting roadside bombs for a payoff. I don't believe these folks care where the payoff comes from. So we could easily just pay it but we will never do so because it makes too much sense.
- lostlogin 10y agoMush of the roams went back into US corporations though. However there is a fairly high chance that the same arms companies would have benefitted had a "paying off the locals" strategy been undertaken.