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there's a better way for 100% savings just completely exit like Afghanistan and remember all this military hardware eventually ends up in the hands of police
by ck2 3mo ago
there's a better way for 100% savings
just completely exit like Afghanistan
and remember all this military hardware eventually ends up in the hands of police departments domestically, next decade is going to be wild
$21 TRILLION spent on militarization 2001-2021
* https://ips-dc.org/report-state-of-insecurity-cost-militarization-since-9-11/ https://ips-dc.org/report-state-of-insecurity-cost-militariz...
imagine how much by 2031, at least double
ps. they are still executing fishermen without trial off Venezuela at a million dollars a pop
- SV_BubbleTime 3mo ago> ps. they are still executing fishermen without trial off Oh. You should have started with this.
- newaccount670 3mo agoThe fact that this person thinks the Afghanistan exit was a success should have let you know he is a crackpot well before the last sentence.
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- delecti 3mo agoThe Afghanistan exit was a completely predictable colossal failure, but it did mean we stopped lighting money on fire in Afghanistan.
- SV_BubbleTime 3mo agoIgnore that we funded the taliban and warlords for the next 50 years with 1.9 billion in vehicles, machine guns, small arms, night vision, and explosives?
- wafflemaker 3mo agoDon't forget that before, the Talibs were seen as crazy fundamentalists and outsiders, probably called Khariji IIRC. US bombings convinced the people to them and made them into state protecting freedom fighters, which they initially were not. What you resist, persists. What you fight, grows stronger.
- delecti 3mo agoI didn't ignore that. That solidly fits under "completely predictable colossal failure". But the next 50 years of funding they received came from money we spent prior to us leaving. Certainly we could have done a better job with the withdrawal (to put it lightly), but it's nonetheless good that we aren't still spending money there.
- pixl97 3mo ago>just completely exit like Afghanistan We can't just completely exit Iran without a time machine. Dufus Donny attempting to escape his Epstein folly by kicking the hornet's nest and now Iran holds the gulf hostage for as long as they want.
- ck2 3mo agoguess what, Iran will hold the gulf hostage regardless if US is there or not exactly like the nightmare Afghanistan is for women there now left to the Taliban regardless if US was there or not it would have happened world is an absolutely horrible place filled with monsters you can't say all these countries should be saved by US and then end USAID to let a million people die with food and medication already paid for left rotting in warehouses btw we are also starving all the people in Cuba to death with an illegal blockcade since the start of the year, so why is Cuba our responsibility too? at some point WE become worse monsters, we're at that point
- gherkinnn 3mo ago> regardless if US was there or not it would have happened Sources please. The war initiated by US and Israel motivated Iran put pressure on the US by closing the strait and attacking the regional US allies.
- Supermancho 3mo agoGoogle: straight of hormuz 2026 closure timeline Graciously, "if the US was there or not" is a reference to the US navy being near/in the straight of hormuz.
- overfeed 3mo agoThe strait was open with no tolls before the Israel/US attacks. Everyone with a brain and a modicum of imagination (except Trump, apparently) knew for decades that Iran had the latent capability to close the strait, and hence preferred either a diplomatic resolutions or a defacto detente.
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- koe123 3mo agoAs much as I love democracy its unfortunate we both get to vote
- Ylpertnodi 3mo agoEmpathy.
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