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This is true, but it is also true that USA is perhaps the most geopolitically-secure state in world history and should be spending among the least on national s
by pphysch 3y ago
This is true, but it is also true that USA is perhaps the most geopolitically-secure state in world history and should be spending among the least on national security (per capita).
Americans don't even know what genuine "national defense" feels like. Instead, we have a world-class propaganda complex dedicated to rationalizing our unnecessary overseas military adventures and proxy wars.
The idea that blowing up a government or tribe in Africa or Asia to open up resource extraction (natural or financial) for a Western MNC will benefit the "freedom" of the average American is totally absurd.
- xp84 3y ago> USA is perhaps the most geopolitically-secure state in world history and should be spending among the least on national security (per capita). I think it glosses over too much complexity to simply state that, because part (not all! Geography is the other part) of the reason why we are so secure is that people know that we have that strong military. If the US were known as a soft target, who had neither the will nor the means to defend itself, we would probably see other actors much more willing to do things to us, such as piracy, etc.
- geysersam 3y agoWhat developed countries are victims of piracy nowadays? There's an in-between the US and Somalia when it comes to control of territory.