Assuming the upper bound cost of Chinese made high speed railway of 21m per km, you could wrap up earth almost 8 times around with that money
Oh c'mon you want capitalism to benefit humanity? pfft
idk but it would buy almost four (total) graphics cards :angery:
Imagine looking at the world, looking at your own country failing to feed, clothe, shelter and treat the illnesses of an appreciably large minority of its citizens and thinking 'we need to spend more money on war. That's what the world needs right now, more war.'
Cuz it's the white man's burden to keep all these savages from goig to war with each other, just like they are doing right now but both sides are armed by us
The real reason is that the US economy depends on war profiteering. The MIC is a "too big to fail" industry and the sector for which even the most hardline deficit-hawk neoliberals act like Keynesians.
It's funny bc "too big to fail" is also the motto for every us military intervention since ww2
Destabilize half the world then :shocked-pikachu: when shit keeps falling apart into more war. Quick inject more war, stat, we need to balance out this civil war with a traditional war!
Amazing really. You know if we lived in a sane world all those alphabet soup agency watchlists would be packed with the kind of ghouls that write stuff like this and not middle aged hippies that might chain themselves to Monsanto's security gate in protest of GMO's or whatever.
Because the money doesn't go to "war" per se, it goes to Halliburton and Raytheon Acres and the CIA, et al. Iraq and Afghanistan have been keeping the MIC happy and contented now that the cold war is over.
Considering the US has a near permanent military base in every country it stepped on... I'm not surprised they're going to stay in Afghanistan forever.
Except in Vietnam and the DPRK, because they got absolutely wrecked there.
Honestly seems like US invasion is such a cakewalk for the Taliban it made no difference to them if they left or not.
‘Is it in yet?’-the Taliban.
This is like a paper written by a high schooler. At no point does actual material reality/history intersect with his argument.
From the same article
When the intelligence on Saddam’s weapons programs proved mistaken, many Americans felt that they had been lied to about the direct threat Iraq posed to the United States.
Kagan, ever the shameless warmongering fuckwad. Asshole needs to be tarred and feathered
proved mistaken
This is also bulllshit revisionism. We weren't just "mistaken" when we invaded Iraq. We had definitive evidence that Iraq did not possess WMDs, but we just covered that up and invaded anyway. A pure war of aggression, and every decision maker involved, (including Joe Biden, head of the Senate Committee of Foreign Relations at the time) should be tried and executed. :amerikkka:
Can't lose another war if it's just a military involvement
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