• BraveSirZaphod@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    More to the point, other countries would have to start spending money on their militaries. Most NATO countries don’t even meet the purported spending goals, and that’s just for the single goal of deterring Russia. Many countries benefit a lot from America’s military spending, both by being able to utilize the peace and by being able to save their own money.

    Whether or not this is a good or fair state of affairs is a different question, but there are a lot of reasons why things are this way.

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      1 year ago

      hey i never said it was “fair”, but the US does benefit significantly more from global stability than anywhere else… its not like they do it for selfless reasons

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      1 year ago

      Well, China is spending money to expand itself. You’re right about Nato though, they just want the US to do it all for them and then be the scapegoats too