• Azrael@reddthat.com
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      3 hours ago

      Good point. But let me ask you this:

      Without a military or nuclear weapons, what is preventing other countries from taking advantage at the first chance they get?

      Criticize the U.S. all you want. But the country is full of valuable resources that other countries want. Take away the U.S.'s ability to defend themselves and the risk of foreign nations taking advantage will spike dramatically. Nukes are basically the ultimate “don’t even think about it” sign.

      • djsoren19@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        sorry full of valuable resources? what, corn? dataservers? pedophiles?

        the U.S. is not some piggy bank waiting to be cracked. Realistically, the current US military exists to defend America from all the nations it’s pissed off by invading them in the past. It’s a self-fullfilling system.

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        the U.S.'s ability to defend themselves

        If you have nukes and are the only sick fucks ever top use it why do you need to ‘defend’ yourself everywhere in the world unprovoked.
        get fucked with your BS. You’re parroting regime propaganda.
        Even they at least became less hypocritical in naming it the Dep of War, not defense.
        Maybe follow that lead if you want to be a little warcriminal imperialist bootlicker.

        Every fucking day there’s some fucker online that makes me despise that cancer country even more.
        Absolute scum of the earth

        • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de
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          6 hours ago

          probably with some time delay, the germans love a good race (/s)

          apart from that, the military did some significant research into a lot of technology, including airplanes (and rockets), internet, nuclear energy.

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            You failed to get the point I was making. Just because the military is a driving factor to technological progress, doesn’t mean it’s a good thing all of a sudden. And all that progress could also have been made by science. Wernher von Braun didn’t care who funded his research into rockets.