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In my opinion, the US is as much a foreign adversary as China. The US isn't subsidizing defense, its occupation and hegemony.
by kkzz99 3y ago
In my opinion, the US is as much a foreign adversary as China. The US isn't subsidizing defense, its occupation and hegemony.
- chaostheory 3y agoOne reason Germany has been able to afford more entitlements for its citizens like socialized healthcare is due to the fact that it virtually had no defense expenditures for decades. We can say the same for most of Western Europe. The US has subsidized the defense of the EU for decades. As for occupation, I wonder what Germany did in the 20th century to merit it?
- polotics 3y agoYou really have to understand and look at the numbers, and also model the economics of what you're writing about, to get a sense of how wrong you are. May i suggest you start on this big quest by looking up how inflation gets imported and exported?
- chaostheory 3y agoYes, tell me why I am wrong instead of just alluding to it
- polotics 3y agoNot in a post, but here's a few books for you: Seignorage on a global reserve currency: read "the global minotaur", the story of oil: read "Oil, Power, and War" by Matthieu Auzanneau, and for completeness: "The brothers" by Stephen Kinzer.
- chaostheory 3y agoThat’s not telling me why. You’re simply using a distraction because you’re unable to summarize the main ideas of those books
- polotics 3y agounwilling: no time! Happy Holidays! :-)
- pelorat 3y agoNo one is forcing the USA to keep it's European military bases, and no one is forcing the USA to spend 3.5% GDP on its defense budget. You do that out of your own free will. And you spending that amount of money on military, has no bearing on whether you could have free health care or not, the obstacles to that are purely political.
- chaostheory 3y agoYou will get what you wish sooner than later because our defense spending is unsustainable and we won’t have a choice in the end. We’re starting to see the cracks with terrorists hijacking cargo ships without repurcussion.
- maxdo 3y agoOh yeah , and what happened to Europe , when they pray to share more money to Ukraine because EU was eating cheese , drinking beer and not thinking about defense , maybe except Poland . And meanwhile also let corrupt themself and give away their energy market to Russia . Oh well Russia bought lots of weapons on this money to start attacking EU