The U.S. spends 760 billion military dollars a year to make sure we could fight an enemy, but this year an enemy came and we didn’t fight it at all.

Oct 16, 2020 · 11:30 AM UTC

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Just as wars are fought by coordinating a huge array of military and organizational skills, a war against Covid could have been fought by coordinating a huge array of scientific, medical, governmental and organizational skills.
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That coordination did not occur. As a result, medical personnel and first responders were left to make heroic efforts far more burdensome than they should have had to - sometimes even at the sacrifice of their own lives - because of a lack of that federal response.
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Why
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Because the defense budget makes billions of dollars for defense contractors, whereas a federally coordinated response to Covid would have overridden the demands of the marketplace to answer the demands of a humanitarian emergency; that is ideological anathema to Trump & Kushner.
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Marianne is saying we should've nuked the laboratory in Wuhan that manufactured the virus. That way it wouldn't have escaped and spread around the world.
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#1 the USA didn't have natural enemies it looked for them #2 after WWII it usurped the neo imperialistic role from GB only to protect its corporations selling their wares abroad it has lost all wars after WWII
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750 billion to take live not save lives
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Yes!
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This is more than likely because we’ve allowed a cadre of narcissists and self-indulgent morons to mismanage this country into oblivion. The people do not have proper representation in government. Washington has shown where its priorities truly lie.
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Sleepy Joe has been here all along
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That's a ridiculous statement. Every man, woman and child, every politician, all media, all healthcare professionals, every small business owner is on the front lines.
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You really think that's what the military budget is for?
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