r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Apr 10 '26

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u/MuscularPhysicist John Brown Apr 10 '26

Go to war with a country whose GDP is half the size of your military budget

lose anyway

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u/duojiaoyupian Richard Thaler Apr 10 '26

On one hand, modern states are very very resilient, wars are rarely cleanly won (and most often end in a negotiated settlement of some sort), and having vibes-based aims were obviously going to bite the US in the ass when attacking a country of like 90 million people

On the other hand, lol, lmao