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spiderfarmer

Surely:

This will make the US safer.

This will make stuff cheaper.

This is a well thought out war.

It will improve the US economoy.

It will not destabilise the region.

This will make life better for Americans.

It will in no way make people hate the USA.

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"the reason iran is a geopolitical threat is because they could block the strait of hormuz and cripple the world’s economy, something they have never done. so we bombed them until they did that"

https://x.com/questionableway/status/2030020476689318046

Great use of tax dollars while the American people face all time cost of living highs among a plethora of many other problems. It’s sickening.

Problem is, it's not being paid with tax dollars. The USA spent 10 trillion on wars over the last decades and none of it was paid with tax dollars.

It is all borrowed or printed. And the wars wouldn't have happened without them having those options, because Americans don't even want this.

And that borrow/print in the end is either future tax dollars/inflation/US pays, stealing from other nations, or default on debt.

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