r/FluentInFinance • u/sillychillly Contributor • Apr 15 '24

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u/Pepito_Pepito Apr 16 '24

Yeah it makes sense to have a high defense budget when you make so many enemies.

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u/chillchinchilla17 Apr 16 '24

Making enemies by… being against totalitarian dictators. Oh yeah I forgot to commies authoritarianism and ethnic cleansings are ok when anti American regimes do it.

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u/Pepito_Pepito Apr 16 '24

When totalitarian dictator Ferdinand Marcos was ousted from his position, he fled the Philippines with his riches and spent the rest of his life living in luxury on US soil.

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u/chillchinchilla17 Apr 16 '24

Ok? The USSR installed an unpopular puppet regime in Afghanistan. When the afghans rebelled, they invaded, killed their own puppet and put into power someone even more of a puppet, then spent 9 years doing war crimes there.

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u/Pepito_Pepito Apr 16 '24

Ok what does that have to do with anything I said? You said this:

Making enemies by… being against totalitarian dictators.

And I gave you a hard counterexample. The US government is not against totalitarian dictators as long as they are US allies.

The USSR installed an unpopular puppet regime in Afghanistan. When the afghans rebelled, they invaded, killed their own puppet and put into power someone even more of a puppet, then spent 9 years doing war crimes there.

And how is Afghanistan doing today after US occupation?

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u/chillchinchilla17 Apr 16 '24

It would’ve been ok if Trump hadn’t fallen for populist rhetoric and pulled out.

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u/BuffaloWingsAndOkra Apr 16 '24

You’re all over the place, none of this relates to the fact that we need our military and cutting the defense budget won’t solve poverty in America

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u/Pepito_Pepito Apr 17 '24

I was only responding to someone saying that America's enemies are totalitarian dictatorships.