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Clearly the solution would be to stop dumping money where it doesn't need to be, like the war machines of various countries that serve no real purpose to us.

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The USA benefits greatly from its international position. That position isn't borne from natural order, but from wielding the USA's strengths - including military strength. Arming allies is part of that, and it is especially smart when they fight those who threaten the USA or the USA's allies. Isolationism is a quick way to lose power so, even if all you see is budgetary accounting, the purpose of hard power should be clear to you.

Will Ukraine defeating Russia do anything to make my life better? Will Israel existing fix the gas prices?

These are awfully similar to Russian propaganda taking points, relatively new account, reader beware.

LOL. This is an 8 month old account, but no I'm actually a KGB ultraspy warlord with golden AKs or whatever. All I want is for my country to stop pouring billions of dollars into fueling our imperialistic desires and doing the opposite of it's original job which was safeguarding our freedom and rights.

Yeah stopping a power hungry warmonger in Europe is such an imperialistic thing to do! It’s Russian propaganda, whether you’re Russian or not is irrelevant.

Yes, although not in ways that are as obvious as looking at a price number. Peaceful democracies make much better economic partners than belligerent autocracies. If you're one of the millions of people living near Russia, a Ukrainian defeat would mean a much higher chance that your city gets flattened by rockets in the future.

The more that wars of aggression and nuclear threats get rewarded, the more of them the world will see, increasing the odds of larger scale violence.

Will germany conquering poland make your life any worse? Nah. Oh look, now it's france... nah it's fine you're not in france. oop, there goes england. Oop shit now I need help and all my friends are gone.

Turns out, maintaining a network of strong allies has long term positive benefits.

Solutions to US problems look so very different from outside the US. There are a lot of obvious things that can be done, with great effect. Reducing military budget is some of it, but it is far from "the solution".

The solution is more of actually figuring out what we're spending money on and who we're giving it to. When you start to realize a good portion of EBT users can afford food and use it for junk food and a sizable portion of welfare recipients do anything but live with it and that your tax dollars fuel these people, you feel an irrefutable feeling of doom.

The things you identify as problems, are completely opposite of what I see. I'm going to make a wild guess that you watch a fair bit of media owned by Murdoch. Feel free to correct me on that.

The 80s called and they want their "Welfare queen" talking points back.

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