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you kinda need some people to be making missiles in order for everyone else to have the luxury of being able to spend their efforts on education and culture. do
by gattis 6y ago
you kinda need some people to be making missiles in order for everyone else to have the luxury of being able to spend their efforts on education and culture. do you know of any countries without missiles? exactly.
- the-dude 6y agoWhy is that? Has the US ever been seriously threatened on its terrority? These missiles are there to protect the economic hegemony.
- hnracer 6y agoYes, during the Pearl Harbor attack. This was 75-80 years ago, on the time scale of civilizations, quite a short time. Not to mention that the US is within range of the ICBMs of various authoritarian regimes.
- ardit33 6y agooi... WW2 is not that far away.... japan attacked us soil. Also, WW1, the US stayed away as much as it could, the eventually had to intervene as its ships started sinking The point of having lots of weapons, is not to have to use them, but be credible threat to not have the other side dare to use their weapons on you. Russia/Putin and China are developing hypersonic nuclear missiles. What is the US going to do about it? Sing, kumbaya and pray for world peace.... ?
- cmrdporcupine 6y agoI mean, arguably Hawaii at the time was US soil in a looser sense of the word. It only became a state in 1959. It had/has a significant Japanese population, and presumably Japan saw invasion there (wrongly, for sure) as some kind of anti-colonial action.
- iso947 6y agoWasn’t Hawaii And Alaska independent from the US until after ww2? Not defending isolationism, but wasn’t the last invasion of the US around 1812?
- dragonwriter 6y ago> Wasn’t Hawaii And Alaska independent from the US until after ww2? No, both were US territories. They weren't states, but they weren't independent, either.