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These conversations always crack me up. Its just so comical. An empire with the largest military presence around the world, outspending the rest of the world to
by dmingod666 6y ago
These conversations always crack me up. Its just so comical. An empire with the largest military presence around the world, outspending the rest of the world to buy weapons that can decimate the world population multiple times over, but, somehow that is not "offensive"..
- sixQuarks 6y agoIt's also not offensive that America is the only "developed" country that doesn't have universal healthcare.
- toomim 6y agoNope, we call that "defense!"
- ClumsyPilot 6y agoWe used to staight up call it 'ministry of war" untill PR people got involved. I prefered the more hobest approach, keeps you on your toes.
- StillBored 6y agoIf your speaking of the USA, it was the "Department of War" Until yah, someone decided to throw in some doublespeak.
- torstenvl 6y agoDoublespeak is used to hide the truth, not to express the truth. The renaming happened in the late 1940s, in a United States that was reluctant to join WWII in the first place, and as the entire world got behind the idea that aggressive war was a violation of the law of nations. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charter_of_the_United_Nations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charter_of_the_United_Nations
- ClumsyPilot 6y ago"express the truth"? This is not subjective you know, USA got had more wars in the last 100 years than any other industrialised nation. No matter your political views, the truth is 'department of war'
- torstenvl 6y agoYou're right. It isn't subjective. You're wrong as a matter of numbers, as a matter of legal analysis, and as a matter of history. Stop pushing a political narrative.