Safety nets, welfare programs, entitlements, whatever you want to call them. The largest expenditures in the budget.
Of course we do.
Why would you expect the cost of policing the planet to be remotely close to cost of defending ones own borders?
How much value do you place on global stability?
Do you we believe we should intervene in genocides and other evils globally?
the point is we don't need to be policing the world
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plenty of countries intervene in genocides and provide aid without having the biggest military.
and the US has made an absolute shyt show of the world during their era of fretting about russia during the cold war - britain, france, the US and russia are basically responsible for damn near all the conflicts happening right now. don't give me that face as if we've been righteous actors, the only reason the US doesn't fall back is because it's two "commie" powers who are jockeying to be the leading military influence, if it were great britain, germany or france, the US would gladly pull back.
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@ do i value stability...my nikka is drunk on the wilsonian kool-aid
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