there's a better way for 100% savings

just completely exit like Afghanistan

and remember all this military hardware eventually ends up in the hands of police departments domestically, next decade is going to be wild

$21 TRILLION spent on militarization 2001-2021

* https://ips-dc.org/report-state-of-insecurity-cost-militariz...

imagine how much by 2031, at least double

ps. they are still executing fishermen without trial off Venezuela at a million dollars a pop

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pixl97 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

>just completely exit like Afghanistan

We can't just completely exit Iran without a time machine. Dufus Donny attempting to escape his Epstein folly by kicking the hornet's nest and now Iran holds the gulf hostage for as long as they want.

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ck2 3 hours ago | parent [-]

guess what, Iran will hold the gulf hostage regardless if US is there or not

exactly like the nightmare Afghanistan is for women there now left to the Taliban

regardless if US was there or not it would have happened

world is an absolutely horrible place filled with monsters

you can't say all these countries should be saved by US and then end USAID to let a million people die with food and medication already paid for left rotting in warehouses

btw we are also starving all the people in Cuba to death with an illegal blockcade since the start of the year, so why is Cuba our responsibility too?

at some point WE become worse monsters, we're at that point

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gherkinnn 3 hours ago | parent [-]

> regardless if US was there or not it would have happened

Sources please. The war initiated by US and Israel motivated Iran put pressure on the US by closing the strait and attacking the regional US allies.

	▲	Supermancho 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Google: straight of hormuz 2026 closure timeline Graciously, "if the US was there or not" is a reference to the US navy being near/in the straight of hormuz.

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SV_BubbleTime 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> ps. they are still executing fishermen without trial off

Oh. You should have started with this.

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newaccount670 3 hours ago | parent [-]

The fact that this person thinks the Afghanistan exit was a success should have let you know he is a crackpot well before the last sentence.

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delecti 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

The Afghanistan exit was a completely predictable colossal failure, but it did mean we stopped lighting money on fire in Afghanistan.

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SV_BubbleTime 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Ignore that we funded the taliban and warlords for the next 50 years with 1.9 billion in vehicles, machine guns, small arms, night vision, and explosives?

	▲	wafflemaker 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Don't forget that before, the Talibs were seen as crazy fundamentalists and outsiders, probably called Khariji IIRC. US bombings convinced the people to them and made them into state protecting freedom fighters, which they initially were not. What you resist, persists. What you fight, grows stronger.

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herry6 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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koe123 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

As much as I love democracy its unfortunate we both get to vote

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Ylpertnodi 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Empathy.

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