• _NoName_@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    So it’s not coming from US tax payers, this is saying? It comes from Japanese taxpayers, German taxpayers, South Korean tax payers, etc. on top of US tax payers.

    That really does not change the situation. It still is a massive amount of money out of US pockets, and the rest is out of US allies’ citizen pockets. It also doesn’t change the failing to pass audits. It also doesn’t change their massive collection of known BS actions done in the past.

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      1 year ago

      What it does change is that the availability of the money and the military machine are linked. It’s not just that American taxpayers are footing the bill; it’s that our military machine is funded by tribute, which we pretend is “debt” that we’re totally going to pay back one day. It’s one system.

      To be clear, it’s bad. I hate it. I just think it’s important to understand how the thing we oppose works.