1/ So basically we’re leaving Afghanistan after 20 years and the Taliban is now on its way to Kabul. Which means we wasted $2T and 2400 American lives for….nothing. The situation is not appreciably any better than it was when we went there.
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2/ Yet even this year we’re spending $763B on defense because obviously we do such a bang up job. Hey kids: what do Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan all have in common? Wasted blood, wasted money, massive failure.
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3/ The defense industry is no different than the fossil fuel industry or health insurance industry or any other corporate tyrant that allows profits to take precedence over human life. In the case of MIC, particularly heinous because of how much damage it does to other countries
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4/ America’s grace period can’t last forever. While both political parties play whore to the defense industry, the people ourselves need to stand up to the emperor and admit he has no clothes. Our military bloat is not a path to security; it’s a purveyor of death & destruction.

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Replying to @marwilliamson
Your Afghanistan solution?
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When we went in to begin with we should never have sidetracked to Iraq & left so much of the war in the hands of warlords. In addition, as in Vietnam & Iraq, modern conflict demands much more than brute force in order to prevail. Cultural arrogance undermined us at every point.
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This you? “Kill the planet in exchange for some fake democracy!”
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I stand by that.
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Worst of all? A cycle of hate. Children in them countries who have survived those wars growing up to hate everything about America.
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You don't even know who the emperor is.
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Cecil Rhodes' Round Table Movement was an int'l network of think tanks that became The Five Eyes Anglosphere with the mandate of world government. The Anglo-American Five Eyes parasite doesn't create anything new. It can only destroy good things that are happening elsewhere.
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Replying to @marwilliamson
Preach!
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Agreed ... Big Pharma, the Oil Industry and the Defense Industry are all killing us ... making corporations and corporate profits more important than the people they are supposed to be serving.
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I would love to defund some of that military We spend more$ then the next 8-12 countries combined The US navy has the #2 largest air force in the 🌎 1/2 the country wants to keep feeding the machine. How do we change this?
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Replying to @marwilliamson @RedBeretsM4All
How do we "stand up to the emperor?"
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