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Exactly. Every American company should be proud to be a partner to the Pentagon. They don’t choose their missions but overall the world is a better place with American hegemony expressed through her military superiority. It would be a tragedy to lose hold of the world order because an arbitrary board disagrees with how congress uses them.

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> overall the world is a better place with American hegemony expressed through her military superiority.

This seems like a non-falsifiable claim about the future, even if it can be argued for rationally with regard to the past.

Have you ever been somewhere that you needed to defend this belief rationally, or does it appear to you as self-evident?

I think we can evaluate how far the discourse is fallen by the reflex to attempt to hide questions that the hegemon's apologists don't like instead of answering them.

Perhaps this bullying attitude is one of the many reasons that most of the world does not feel that it's better off today with American hegemony.

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