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I wonder where they got those nukes from? Also, what about the remainder of Europe that did not have nuclear armaments? Communism is an ideology that demands
by _2z1p 3y ago
I wonder where they got those nukes from? Also, what about the remainder of Europe that did not have nuclear armaments?
Communism is an ideology that demands world conquest and the extinction of Capitalism. The Soviets expanded as far as they could and absolutely would not have hesitated to conquer more of Europe without the threat of the United States military and NATO.
- mcv 3y agoFrance and the UK got their own nukes. The rest of NATO got American nukes. And many NATO countries have pretty advanced militaries. Not large ones in absolute numbers, because they're not large countries, but absolutely more advanced than most non-NATO countries with very few exceptions (like Sweden). My point, however, is about your claim that all of this somehow subsidised social programs. Those social programs exist independently from US protection. Nobody denies that the US guaranteed the freedom of western Europe (and many other countries around the world). But that and social programs are two completely separate things.
- weard_beard 3y agoIn America they are definitely NOT separate. Our outsized military spending is a direct syphon of social spending. We even have common phrases like, "that will happen when teachers get all the money they need and the airforce has to hold a fundraiser bake-sale" meaning "when hell freezes over".
- mcv 3y agoAnd yet the military expenditure is also used as social spending. Much of military spending is about job creation. It's the one field of manufacturing that never left the country.