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SHODANs_insect t1_j065qcg wrote

Reply to comment by never_rains in [OC] World collective security arrangements for the United States, China, and Russia, with each's share of world GDP. by MST3KTFCCTRT

>When it is the whole continent of Europe getting a free ride on US defense spending it becomes a problem.

What's the problem, exactly?

Because a moment ago it was that European nations could afford universal healthcare and generous welfare. The US can currently afford the same but chooses not to.

Are you moving the goalposts to another problem?

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never_rains t1_j065lyx wrote

Reply to comment by MidnightPale3220 in [OC] World collective security arrangements for the United States, China, and Russia, with each's share of world GDP. by MST3KTFCCTRT

Not all alliances are mutually exclusive. Pakistan is a major non NATO ally but India has closer relationship with US via quad in terms of Chinese threat. If there is a conflict between India and China then US would supply weapons to India and Pakistan would provide support to China.

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never_rains t1_j065fnr wrote

Reply to comment by SHODANs_insect in [OC] World collective security arrangements for the United States, China, and Russia, with each's share of world GDP. by MST3KTFCCTRT

When it is the whole continent of Europe getting a free ride on US defense spending it becomes a problem. The problem was known but not acknowledged. Now even the Finnish PM accepts that European security is too dependent on US. Germans aren’t spending enough to defend themselves. UK has a decent navy but there army is too small to offer any challenge. French might be the only one doing enough in terms of land army.

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SHODANs_insect t1_j064mdk wrote

Reply to comment by MyaheeMyastone in [OC] World collective security arrangements for the United States, China, and Russia, with each's share of world GDP. by MST3KTFCCTRT

That doesn't necessarily mean much, though. There are states in the US that are bigger recipients of federal funds than contributors of federal funds. There are many ways to carve up populations to indicate that some people are getting a free ride.

The disappointing thing about the US is that it has the capacity to retain its current military spending and provide universal healthcare and more generous welfare policies - and it doesn't.

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MidnightPale3220 t1_j05xzhi wrote

Reply to [OC] World collective security arrangements for the United States, China, and Russia, with each's share of world GDP. by MST3KTFCCTRT

Also not all defence alliances are equal.

For example, currently there is a military conflict between Armenia (member of CSTO) and Azerbaijan, as well as between Kyrgyzstan (member of CSTO) and Tajikistan (observer status in CSTO). Russia as main "security provider" within CSTO doesn't appear to provide any meaningful security for its members in these cases.

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anonkitty2 t1_j05v3s8 wrote

Reply to comment by Spillz-2011 in Tesla value as it relates to Twitter's purchase [OC] by datawazo

Without Tesla, the electric car might still be all but nonexistent; the oil companies could have stifled them indefinitely. Without SpaceX, America would not currently have a space program that includes manned missions it launches. His products are still flawed, but Musk and cos. got them off the drawing boards and helped show there was a market for them.

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Turtlepower7777777 t1_j05t14v wrote

Reply to comment by greenlilly026 in [OC] geospatial distribution of different fast food chains in the USA (included some of your suggestions from my previous post) by MaverickJW

Waffle House is intrinsically linked to Southern culture and food. It was founded and Headquartered in the metro Atlanta area. Cracker Barrel is also a Southern staple and is where all church goers eat Brunch on Sunday (and not tip their servers)

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