I do not expect the US to have invested nearly as much money into infrastructure as they did into war, but I think it'd be nice to include it. The chinese spending on military as well.
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Spending on military doesn’t equal to war costs.
you seem to be conflating all military spending with war spending. White i am not vetting the numbers, this doesn't include other military spending, like blowing up fishermen in the Caribbean etc
Fair point
Shareholders in weapons production specifically. You could have made construction company shareholders wealthy and at least you would have ended up with some useful things out of it rather than a bunch of dead people and creating a new generation that will hate you for good reason.
And we're not even counting Iran's war (which is apparently not a war) nor the consequences of it.
The US of Magastan are a blight and the sooner they fall the better for the world.
Yellowstone 2028.
Just need a big red eye at the top of trump tower and the look will be complete.
Comunism is superior than capitalismo
They are both capitalist
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