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The US didn't have to pay for going to war with Irak while lying about wmd and against the UN vote, nor pay for its mass surveillance program or the secret tort
by BiteCode_dev 6y ago
The US didn't have to pay for going to war with Irak while lying about wmd and against the UN vote, nor pay for its mass surveillance program or the secret torture bases.
Why do you think China will pay for anything ? If a country is powerful enought, it will get away with anti democratic behavior without any consequences.
Today nobody can oppose china. They have more population, provide the entire world with most products and have the nuclear weapon.
They will keep doing what they want, and people will fake outrage and do nothing. In fact, US companies will keep complying with their abusive requests, like censorship, to not lose the market. CEO will pretend to care on twitter and keep it up.
After all, did we stopped buying phones and clothes from china when we learned they were made by child slaves ? We didn't. We can't even care as individuals, I don't see how our systems, which are groups of individuals, would bother when we dont.
- Veen 6y ago> The US didn't have to pay for going to war with Irak On the contrary, it paid about $3 trillion, depending on whose estimates you believe.
- luckylion 6y agoYou mean it shuffled money around from the federal budget into the pockets of American companies. The money does stay in the US for the most part (well, and even that which they sent in containers probably didn't disappear into Iraqi pockets).