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That’s putting a pretty low price on human life.

We're talking modern fighter jets. You can fly those around with a mass simulator in the pilot seat.

No, it's putting a high price on human life, but it depends on how you look at it. We can be a nation that gets bombed into nothingness, or the only country that can defend our own or another one. But we can't do that unless we're willing to actually build weapons of war.

It's why WWII vets did what they did knowing not every bomb, aircraft or handheld weapon was perfect but still ran in to stop Hitler. I would say that put a high price on human life. These last few generations won't get it until it gets its WW.

Right now USA is cpintry that threatens others and is primary threat to stabilily. Its rhetoric is not building up to defense.

I don't know to me it sounds like Isreal and Russia if you ask, well anyone. NK wants a lot of people dead too.

Although Israel is committing genocide, it is not a threat to worldwide stability. NK is not threat to world wide stability either, as evil they are, they are no where near to that. USA half switched alliance to Russia, so yeah. Current American leadership admires how Russia does things and wants to be more like them.

There is a reason why USA is currently seen as the biggest threat to stability - because USA is intentionally trying to make the world unstable.

> We can be a nation that gets bombed into nothingness

There is literally no one that can bomb the US into nothingness. Even if the US decided to stop develop new weapons, they cannot be invaded. They are too big, too rich and too protected by the ocean and weak neighbors for that

It would sound extremely surreal but Russia could invade Alaska and also attack California, these are actual threats that exist right now that we may not be able to stop.

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