Anonymous
7/3/2025, 4:50:47 AM
No.24516313
>>24516284
>The Taliban was never a reservoir for global jidahis
Yeah it was. If you want to get conspiratorial and blame the US look up who was funding them in the 70s/80s to fuck with the Soviet Union.
>In what way?
The geopolitical landscape had dramatically shifted and defense dollars are now justified by an arms race with China (remember all the stuff about "hypersonic missiles" a couple years ago?) and funding the Ukrainians against the Russians and Israel in its regional war.
>This cope is also used to explain why America always gives money to Israel.
It's not "cope", anon. Why do you think people criticized the MIC in the first place? It incentivizes directing the budget toward maintaining jobs based on conflict. When there's a war that's fine and dandy but when there isn't one you still need that part of the economy to be functioning (especially given how large it is). I'm not saying it's a good thing at all--its just how it is.
>The Taliban was never a reservoir for global jidahis
Yeah it was. If you want to get conspiratorial and blame the US look up who was funding them in the 70s/80s to fuck with the Soviet Union.
>In what way?
The geopolitical landscape had dramatically shifted and defense dollars are now justified by an arms race with China (remember all the stuff about "hypersonic missiles" a couple years ago?) and funding the Ukrainians against the Russians and Israel in its regional war.
>This cope is also used to explain why America always gives money to Israel.
It's not "cope", anon. Why do you think people criticized the MIC in the first place? It incentivizes directing the budget toward maintaining jobs based on conflict. When there's a war that's fine and dandy but when there isn't one you still need that part of the economy to be functioning (especially given how large it is). I'm not saying it's a good thing at all--its just how it is.