Hacker News Reader

I think one of the most obvious, major benefits of war is the trillions of dollars that's put into the military-industrial complex every year. Whether war actually breaks out is irrelevant, if the interests involved can make people believe it's always inevitable, so let's keep pumping money into it.

View on HN

Europe stopped believing in it and "interests involved" couldn't do anything about it. As a result their military-industrial complex has atrophied to a point where without US goodwill they would not be able to protect themselves against the belligerent neighbor with much smaller economy.

So everyone is just going to get along? Like that drunk neighbor that started fighting everyone and you had to call the police on them?

The thing is if as few as 1 in 1000 have ill intentions we'll quickly find ourselves back in a system with a MIC.

I don't believe I made any implications about how the world should act, or whether peace is possible. I made a point about a major motivating factor. That isn't to say it's the only one.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com