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> ...I know it is popular to say that we can just cut the military. The US dollar is whatever the US military says it is. This system is not right, moral, pro
by specialist 5y ago
> ...I know it is popular to say that we can just cut the military.
The US dollar is whatever the US military says it is.
This system is not right, moral, proper, ethical, just, or in any other way virtuous.
It just is.
Philip & Alexander, Genghis Khan, Augustus, Pax-Brittanica, ad nauseam. They all worked the same.
Empires consume humans to feed growth. Grow or die. Money is a shared hallucination.
While the USA's military industrial complex is an unqualified evil, the alternative is worse. No empire means chaos, world war, all against all.
Just a guess.
- kamaal 5y ago>>No empire means chaos, world war, all against all. I think it will be more like a dozen+ regional powers scattered all over the world. And their economies tied up through a mesh of trade and military ties/enmities. Only people who really suffer from the collapse of an empire is the citizens of that empire. Everybody else just moves on.