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I wonder what would happen if we didn't have a military at all
but think of the stock market!
This is what I look like when listening to the new Gorillaz album.
Thats the trick. If a country doesn't have a military and they have something like resources other countries want. The become puppets of the countries that have militaries. The exceptions are small countries that don't have enough of anything anyone wants for others to bother taking it. They don't tend to do so well usually.
It's a race to the bottom.
ironically the countries with more natural resources typically have lower quality of life. this is known as the resource curse phenomenon.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_curse
So what you're saying is... superpower nations shouldn't exist
but they do. And now it is just a game of brinksmanshit
We wouldn't see images like the Iranian girl's rucksack smeared with blood.
because we wouldn't have the internet. the US military contributed significantly to the development of today's internet.
Would we have the Autobahn if Hitler hadn't built it?
probably with some time delay, the germans love a good race (/s)
apart from that, the military did some significant research into a lot of technology, including airplanes (and rockets), internet, nuclear energy.
What do you think the drones are for?