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		al_borland on Feb 23, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Nobody ever gets credit for fixing problems that n... >One could frame the entire US military budget as preventative spend. A decent percentage of the population thinks the country should reduce military spending, because they are undervaluing the preventative spend.

yunwal on Feb 23, 2024 [–]

Or because the prevention ends up killing hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians. Oh, and it turns out the reason you supposedly went to war in the first place is completely fake.

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