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Originally Posted by ManyBenz
Maybe you can even come to grips with the reality that US military hegomony is probably the greatest stabilizing influence on the globe and has been for many a decade. Do you think the world would be as peaceful as it has been if there wasn't some "Big Stick" giving piss pot tyrants around the world pause?
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You mean the kind of "piss pot tyrants" that the US installed in the first place?
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Military spending is the price we pay for doing the business we do around the world, that's what pays your salary and lets you sleep safely at night. You think you'd have the life you live if you didn't have US military spending protecting and ensuring it?
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Many countries have similar or higher average standards of living without outsize military spending. No one is talking about reducing military spending to zero, just by say 30-50%, enough to spend some of the money saved on things that are ALSO important to the US. Little things like education funding. Infrastructure. Transportation. A basic level of health coverage for all.
We'll still have a pretty big stick...