Re:World military expenditure passes $2T for first time
by FpUser on Tuesday April 26, 2022 @12:41PM
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>"You need a dictatorship to protect a small nation free from a much larger power with a history of all kinds of evil."
That evil seems to be way less for small nation than the one coming from a dictatorship. If I was North Korean I'll vote with both of my hands to not "be free" and ingested as one more state of the US.
In reality this however also leads to the US destroying countries and leaving them in the state of disrepair. And due to the US having the biggest military and economy dick it risks no punishment.
Re:World military expenditure passes $2T for first time
by AnimalMuppet on Tuesday April 26, 2022 @11:51AM
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> Our bullets, tanks, missiles, etc kept japan, germany, korea, etc under US rule.
If you think they were under US rule in the same way that Poland, say, was under USSR rule, then... well, if you mean pre-1957 or so, then yes, Japan and West Germany were flat-out occupied. After that, no, they were not "under US rule" in any meaningful sense.
Re:World military expenditure passes $2T for first time
by briffle on Tuesday April 26, 2022 @12:27PM
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> You need a dictatorship to protect a small nation free from a much larger power with a history of all kinds of evil.
So far, Ukraine is showing this statement is false.
Re:World military expenditure passes $2T for first time
by qiskit on Tuesday April 26, 2022 @05:39PM
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Ukraine lost crimea and half the country. At least so far. They might lose everything in the next few months. Not good job of protecting itself and keeping itself free. North korea lost what? Not a speck of land and against a much greater and evil foe.
Re:World military expenditure passes $2T for first time
by AnimalMuppet on Tuesday April 26, 2022 @07:47PM
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What "greater and evil foe" was North Korea facing?
Re:World military expenditure passes $2T for first time
by KptMarchewa on Tuesday April 26, 2022 @12:49PM
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China under Mao was a non-factor.
China switching sides is the factor. USSR was never going to outspend the US let alone NATO.
> Sorry, what? You're responding to someone who was born behind the Iron Curtain, and you're saying that Western "bullets, tanks, missiles, etc" kept him/her under soviet rule?
Soviet "bullets, tanks, missiles, etc" did. Our bullets, tanks, missiles, etc kept japan, germany, korea, etc under US rule.
> As in, if the west had been militarily weak, the CPSU would have stopped occupying?
Do you think poland was occupied without bullets, tanks, missiles? Do you think korea, germany, japan were occupied by accident?
> Not because of the dictatorship then.
You need a dictatorship to protect a small nation free from a much larger power with a history of all kinds of evil.