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the_gipsytoday at 3:04 AM1 replyview on HN

The USA has put itself im this position by their own motivations, and has consistently profited from it.


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troadtoday at 3:25 AM

Uh huh, sure, America profits handsomely from paying trillions of dollars to defend its deadbeat dependencies because... uh... something something capitalism?

The unnecessary expense of trillions of dollars being, of course, just so famously and fabulously profitable. I assume this is the same strand of 4D-chess-level thinking that posits that landlords like keeping rental properties vacant because they somehow make more money that way.

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