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Originally Posted by Throndor
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Socialist countries in europe are rapidly nearing insolvency and they don't even have defense budgets, while simultaneously having cultures far more ethnically homogenous than the US.
Socialism doesn't work. Every single attempt has lead or is leading to utter ruin.
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Sorry again, but there there have been many socialist elements in the American economy and government for quite awhile now. The reason European defense countries' budgets haven't been paying for militaries is because that is exactly the way our heads of government and the DoD have wanted it since after WW2. World War 2 was such a devastation so shortly after WW1 that our heads of state probably didn't want to trust a peace in Europe up to the Europeans again. Maybe many of our heads of state still feel this way, hence why they get so upset at President Trump even suggesting that European countries should increase their defense budgets.
If you were a true anti socialist firebrand crusader, you should be critical of the dark money that funds untold numbers of Pentagon projects. It is likely very many billions - maybe trillions - have been funneled into projects we'll either never be aware of or didn't achieve much success or real-world use. More likely though, many companies received and receive way more of your tax-paying money than they really need to pay vast sums of money to defense contractor executives and middle men that would have still been quite comfortable with 50% of the money they have received in federal contracts paid by US taxpayers like you.