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> Expecting your country to go to war for your private interests is ridiculous. At the risk of coming across as flippant: Why? I don’t think the math has worke
by lurk2 10mo ago
> Expecting your country to go to war for your private interests is ridiculous.
At the risk of coming across as flippant: Why? I don’t think the math has worked out on most peer conflicts during the past hundred years. The cost of the operation has likely already exceeded the value of whatever infrastructure was left in Venezuela to be reclaimed. But why should we expect courts and bailiffs to enforce the law domestically and not expect soldiers to enforce it internationally?
- EtienneK 10mo agoMaybe because war is terrible and no one wants it? Especially if it means protecting private companies’ revenues.
- solenoid0937 10mo agoThere is always a cost/benefit done for these decisions, it is never as simple as "war as terrible so we just shouldn't do war."
- solarengineer 10mo agoThe benefits definitely do not accrue to you, though. There is no direct or indirect benefit to you supporting the invasion of another country where you can now bomb locals with impunity.
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