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67 sats \ 14 replies \ @Undisciplined 8 Aug \ parent \ on: U.S. Surpasses China as Germany's Top Trading Partner news
War is not profitable. It is extremely costly. Countries that can't export their inflation (or receive endless US subsidies) aren't in endless wars for precisely that reason.
War drives commerce.
Well, if you are a big enough country.
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That is the opposite of true. War causes massive commercial disruptions, both intentionally and unintentionally.
It's very profitable for half-a-dozen US weapons manufacturers and they pay our "representatives" to impoverish the rest of us through this endless war spending.
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I didn't. Honestly, I don't follow this stuff as closely as I might, because I find it truly distressing.
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Embargos, sanctions, and the destruction of commercial infrastructure are all standard parts of war.
Not to mention that war requires diverting resources that might have been productive and using them to destroy other productive resources and people.
This is the biggest and most ridiculous Keynesian lie.
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That's not really done much anymore. It's also not the least expensive way to do it.
The costs of war are largely born by normal people, though, whereas the spoils go to the top. That's why the American government wages endless war, while the American people generally oppose it.
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Yeah, but that was brief and more than 20 years ago. We've been waging war pretty much nonstop for more than 80 years and it's been unpopular almost the whole time.