• rainwall@piefed.social
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    4 days ago

    US spends 1,000,000,000,000/year on a military, drastically more than every other country on earth combined, and some nitwit is whining about the nothing we spend on saving millions of human lives that also, get this, gives us soft power that is drastically outsized to the cost of the spending.

    Huh, duh, I wonder if a country that can spend a trillion dollar/yr on its military can spend 1/1000 of that to save people and give us huge leverage on trade/resources/etc.

    Not only is cutting foreign aid morally terrible, its flat out stupid economically.