• Square Singer@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    If the USA wouldn’t be randomly invading countries every few years, they could keep the same level of military technology while spending much less.

    The Iraq war did nothing to increase the US military’s capabilities but just wasted enourmous amounts of money while killing civilians on a daily basis.

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      1 year ago

      that’s not how technology works, stuff will get outdated if we use it or not

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      1 year ago

      for sure. To boot that was done while backgrounding afganistan which was the main 9/11 thing and caused it to go on forever since it was neglected.

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        1 year ago

        What’s up with Americans never mentioning Afghanistan anymore like it wasn’t the first place that got invaded after 9/11???

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          1 year ago

          it is much mentioned a bunch by our right on how bad the left president did finally extricating ourselves from the thing they started (and of course lets not forget what president actually eliminated osama)