The inability to keep your own people alive unless they are profitable is not strength.
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There is a specific absurdity in watching a country that cannot provide basic healthcare to its citizens spend more on its military than the next six countries combined.
And having those citizens describe this as "strength."
Strength.
The inability to keep your own people alive unless they are profitable is not strength.
The willingness to spend unlimited money projecting violence abroad while people ration insulin at home is not strength.
It is the behavior of an entity that has confused the performance of power with the exercise of it.
That has built its identity so completely around the capacity for violence that it has forgotten what the violence is supposed to be for.
The empire does not make its citizens safe.
It makes them afraid, of each other, of outsiders, of the future, because fear is what justifies the expense.
A population that felt genuinely secure would ask questions about where the money goes.
A population kept in a state of continuous, low-grade, expertly managed anxiety keeps writing the check.
posted by Satish Sharma at
03:23
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