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>"For many decades the idea that the U.S. props up the rest of world ..." It does not do it for free. It gets many benefits from "the rest of the world". Like
by FpUser 4y ago
>"For many decades the idea that the U.S. props up the rest of world ..."
It does not do it for free. It gets many benefits from "the rest of the world". Like buying US debt, trading oil in US dollars, access to cheap labor, bigger market etc. etc. Nothing of what it does is "free". This giant war spending also helps them to bomb other countries into oblivion when they feel like.
- suture 4y agoYes. I was just commenting on how Americans see things. As a people we are extremely ignorant of international matters and don’t take into account that our over sized military does pay dividends. I don’t agree that those dividends are worthwhile anymore though. We are a nation with a first class military, first class level of cultural influence, first class level of soft and hard power that has second rate social programs. I would like that to be reversed.