Geopolitics

Contrarian take: The U.S. should spend less money on wars!

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Counter argument: "More than 65 countries peg their currencies to the U.S. dollar while five U.S. territories and eleven foreign nations use it as their official currency of exchange."

To be the best, you gotta beat the best (in war). US is making sure that never happens.

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Counter argument: having a large military isn’t a good measure of a country’s economic output

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How do our numbers compare to China?

If we were to cut spending by half tomorrow, I don’t see a direct link to our economy shrinking overnight

Disagree. Can’t have one without the other. Having a large military is the only reason the US has such a large economic output.