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"Despite all its flaws, the DOD is putting on a clinic on superior training, logistics, discipline, technology and power projection. I shudder to think what the world would look like right now and in several years without the DOD. Europe would be getting steamrolled if not for the DOD and NATO and it wouldn’t end there."

For every bit of good the DOD does it kills, destroys and spreads enough suffering to AT LEAST nullify it if not vastly put it in the negative. That is without considering how all the money the DOD wastes on killing people and overthrowing other governments could be used to massively reduce suffering if it was put towards something more useful like infrastructure or healthcare.




The suffering is generally not in America. For American tax payers, that is a factor.


And a disgusting convenience, that as long as it is "otherworldly" humans at the other end of the barrel, it suffices


Most countries tend to look out for their people first. I can’t really see a realistic alternative.




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