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And this is exactly why we must all remember to pledge 2% of our Gross Domestic Product to Lockheed Martin.
by boomskats 3y ago
And this is exactly why we must all remember to pledge 2% of our Gross Domestic Product to Lockheed Martin.
- belter 3y agoEurope thanks you, so it can only pledge 1.5 %
- dvgddksj 3y agoHow much do we give to Apple?
- anon1199022 3y agoMore like few trillion to Afganistan and Iraq with no real threat but idk, you can say whatever % too.
- alwa 3y agoI wonder if the parent comment was referring to NATO’s 2% Defense Investment Guideline [0], where NATO countries agreed in 2006 to spend 2% of their respective GDPs on defense. The Americans periodically get grumpy that the European countries tend to come in short of that target. [0] https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/topics_67655.htm#indirect https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/topics_67655.htm#indirect
- pjscott 3y agoIt's a little under 0.2%, using the revenue and GDP numbers from last year. (You might have misplaced the decimal point?)
- PKop 3y agoNon sequitur aside, given the outcome of this very situation, is it not true that power dictates (whether we like it or not)?
- enaaem 3y agoWithout your countries army, another army will come in. Kill or resettle your family to some shitty outback place and settle their own people on your property. Your property is acquired under your current government and your property rights is only valid under said government, another government can just rewrite the rules as they please. There is no such thing as "natural property rights".
- zapdrive 3y agoOther countries "armies" are still walking right across the border and into the US.
- EGreg 3y ago[flagged]
- lostlogin 3y agoWill it? Lots of countries have tiny armies, and those that have large ones aren’t habitually invading their neighbours. There are a couple of potential exceptions to this, but it’s been holding up pretty well.
- logicchains 3y agoHistory's proven that completely false. A well armed militia of volunteers can defeat a much larger, professional, funded military, as the Taliban defeated the US. Similarly no country existing has any hope of successfully occupying the continental United States given how high the rate of weapon ownership there is
- enaaem 3y agoGuess what the Taliban became (and already were)? Just another government with their own set rules and regulations. This is what every "independent militia" or warlord aspires to become. At this moment, several countries in the world can completely annihilate and depopulate the US. One of the things that are stopping them is... Lockheed Martin.