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Re:Another undersea cable damaged in Baltic Sea by ASalazarMX on Sunday January 26, 2025 @06:44PM (#42835547)
The right word is spend. Military spending is not an inversion, because the profits rarely go to the government, but to the private sector.
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Re:Another undersea cable damaged in Baltic Sea by worldsayshi on Monday January 27, 2025 @03:27AM (#42838733)
Invest - to put money, effort, time, etc. into something in order to improve it or get an advantage.

Spend - to give money as a payment for something.

Invest still sounds to me like the word I'm looking for.

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Re:Another undersea cable damaged in Baltic Sea by ASalazarMX on Monday January 27, 2025 @02:38PM (#42844786)
Yeah, in the way I can invest in a new GPU for my gaming computer.

Paying military subcontractors is not putting resources into improving the military, it's spending. Be it bombing a country for no profit (like Afghanistan), for resources (like Irak), or geopolitics gain (like Syria/Ukraine), it's an expense, not an inversion. The military will not get ROI from oil or geopolitics.

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Re:Another undersea cable damaged in Baltic Sea by Arnt on Monday January 27, 2025 @05:19PM (#42846395)
Those subcontractors build factories, which is investment.

https://newsukraine.rbc.ua/news/four-rheinmetall-plants-set-... for example.

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