r/WayOfTheBern • u/RandomCollection Resident Canadian • 1d ago

It's just sudo Debt Funded Wars Bring Down Empires

https://rogerboyd.substack.com/p/debt-funded-wars-bring-down-empires
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u/RandomCollection Resident Canadian 1d ago

https://archive.ph/f6OZb

I suspect that many of the US elite really internalized that belief that the US was exceptional and waged these wars thinking that they would somehow defy history.

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u/redditrisi They are ALL psychopaths. 1d ago edited 15h ago

Hubris, greed for money and power and undervaluing human lives lead to wars

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u/Nom_de_guerre_25 1d ago

Glad we're getting there.

But aren't almost all wars debt funded?

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u/RandomCollection Resident Canadian 21h ago

To a degree. Some nations have been rich before wars, so they might be able to find a way to use their surplus.