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Come on ... be real ... america spends roughly 600 B USD on military and related stuff. And they kill what 200-300K of civilians and combatants overseas per year top.

So this means that a brown person's life costs the government what 3 million USD per person to take. That is grossly inefficient. I am sure that if they just offer the dictators and warlords the money directly to kill their own populace they will manage to bring down the bill to 10K per person.

The goal of the US military is not to kill people (it is just not good enough) or defend the country (there is no real threat and terrorism is a joke) - it is to waste GDP in the best Orwellian way possible in which it excels.

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