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Washington Post – In the Long Run, Wars Make Us Safer and Richer (2014)
- N_Lens 7mo agoOpinion piece that I thought was thought provoking.
- metalman 7mo agoif "us" = white rich people, then, sure
- FrankWilhoit 7mo agoHindsight! We can now see that World War II, so far from making us safer or richer, put us on a greased slide to total political collapse; and this should also have been clear in 2014, after experiencing the eliminationist rhetoric of Reagan and G. W. Bush.
- mitchbob 7mo agohttps://archive.ph/2026.03.05-075642/https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/in-the-long-run-wars-make-us-safer-and-richer/2014/04/25/a4207660-c965-11e3-a75e-463587891b57_story.html https://archive.ph/2026.03.05-075642/https://www.washingtonp...