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The whole country is laughably undermaintained -- all public infrastructure, period. I think this is what it looks like when a major first world economy just sl
by CamTin 9y ago
The whole country is laughably undermaintained -- all public infrastructure, period. I think this is what it looks like when a major first world economy just slowly winds down -- decades of "profits" that are really just cashing out investments from decades earlier without replenishing them. It's like one of those "perpetual motion machines" that appear to work for a while, but in reality are just spending all the energy used in creating the magnets.
- true_religion 9y agoUnderfunding the navy in times of peace is a pretty much par for course for the USA. Personally, I feel it'd be better if we went back to our roots as a country that tried only for supremacy in its own hemisphere, rather than operating as the #1 military everywhere around the globe. To do the latter is both expensive, and requires an empire or diplomatic web that we simply do not have.