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Historically, it is minuscule. It wasn’t too long ago that waging a war for too long would bankrupt most countries, but the US has been waging wars for almost t
by AmericanChopper 2y ago
Historically, it is minuscule. It wasn’t too long ago that waging a war for too long would bankrupt most countries, but the US has been waging wars for almost the entire time it’s existed, and it’s managed to build the worlds largest economy while doing it. But you’re suggesting we debate whether defence spending should be 3 percent rather than 4 of GDP. If all of our allies properly contributed to our defence, it could probably be 2 or less. I’m not a big supporter of government spending, but the effectiveness of our defence spending for its tiny relative cost is remarkable compared to literally any other period in history.
- soulofmischief 2y ago> the US has been waging wars for almost the entire time it’s existed, and it’s managed to build the worlds largest economy while doing it Colonial imperialism is a highly effective means of resource extraction.
- AmericanChopper 2y agoThe US foreign territories have nothing to do with resource extraction. They're primarily maintained to provide strategic territory to the US armed forces.
- soulofmischief 2y agoI'm not talking about territories, I'm talking about the US' long, well-documented history of neoliberal foreign interference with democratic nations, with the aim of establishing economic and ideological superiority.
- tsimionescu 2y agoOf course, chip manufacturing was moved almost entirely to Taiwan and South Korea out of complete happenstance, not because it was cheaper to make there for the American mega corps making huge profits out of the chips. And that's just one example.
- AmericanChopper 2y agoOffshoring parts of your supply chain (and to high income countries no less) is your idea of colonial imperialism?