What does that have anything to do with what's been posted on here?

Every time the US military or federal budgets are mentioned, people do complain about it. Many people wish it was spent elsewhere.

Ah but those are Americans commenting on the state of their country.

I'm assuming the person who made the comment is not from India in which case it truly is a sly remark. If my assumption is wrong, feel free to discard my original comment.

This is my stance on these things:

- If the discussion is regarding topic A about a country X, pointing out an unrelated shortcoming when you're not from country X makes you sound like a douche.

- If the discussion is about that shortcoming itself, it's open-season for discussion regardless of where you're from.

- If the discussion is about country X, you are from country X, and feel that something else about the state of your country should be brought into discussion, it's valid.

Again, this is just my stance.

You seem really butthurt about something. And yes the Wikipedia article you linked literally talks about how the government has made cleanliness a priority. India lives rent free in your head it seems

I don't care anything about India. You need to make toilets, otherwise you will drown in shit. Also, your nationalism sucks.

Here comes the butthurt brigade. Any time any positive news about India comes out, these trolls come trotting out, with the same tired-old tropes: toilets, casteism, patriarchy, etc.

You clowns need to come up with something new.

Love how people jump to flag this comment as irrelevant, when the op just says that basic sanitation should be prioritised over military helicopters.

One thing that opened my eye recently to how nationalistic Indians are, is a new Indian colleague. So much false history and propaganda. Great guy though.

> when the op just says that basic sanitation should be prioritised over military helicopters.

Why can't a country do both? Most countries in the world are investing in military, space or other national security related projects. They all have some internal issues they are facing. It doesn't make sense to prioritize only one thing over the many issues a country faces.

Imagine how many toilets the cost of a single helicopter can buy :)

Clearly not both topics are given the same attention.

Because money is a finite resource. The budget has X Rupees and and Y topics to split them under, and any rupee spend on the military is one that isn't spent on toilets or schools or childcare.

Yes, but this is an allocation problem. Is it feasible for India to allocate 100% of its budget to toilets when it has border conflicts with its neighbors and terrorism around?

India has nukes, so they're undoubtedly overspending on defense.

Russia has nukes. Does it look like they are winning? Nukes are for last resort. No one is going to use nukes in limited conflicts.