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A couple years ago, I heard that the cost of eliminating world hunger was $30 billion a year. US "defense" spending is at $700 billion currently I believe. And lol @ using the word defense, when it none of it takes place on US soil...everything is initiating offence on foreign soil.
Not sure how many people aren't getting adequate food and water, but one year without making guns, bombs, tanks and fighter jets...would give approximately 23 years of food and clean water...and probably a sustainable infrastructure that could provide it for even longer (water filtration + farming infrastructure). But who needs that when you have the mother of all bombs?
A couple years ago, I heard that the cost of eliminating world hunger was $30 billion a year. US "defense" spending is at $700 billion currently I believe. And lol @ using the word defense, when it none of it takes place on US soil...everything is initiating offence on foreign soil.
Not sure how many people aren't getting adequate food and water, but one year without making guns, bombs, tanks and fighter jets...would give approximately 23 years of food and clean water...and probably a sustainable infrastructure that could provide it for even longer (water filtration + farming infrastructure). But who needs that when you have the mother of all bombs?
People who seek military and political power always do it for their own peculiar psychological reasons, but they couch their ambition in glowing terms, i.e., they want to 'protect liberty'. 'defend' something etc.
They will always find a justification for their mischief and loads of buddies with the same problem to back up their opinions with guns.
The problem is that fake wars create fake heroes and fake problems lead to fake solutions which do not work long term.
It would be a good thing for any number of people to try for some important goal, like extending humanity to outer space, even if 90% of them died. The deaths would be for something useful. But feeding millions of people into a corporate theater company to die miserable deaths so some sociopaths with power can gloat about their 'vision' and 'the tough decisions they make', is getting boring.
