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July 18th, 2018, 07:26 PM | #1861 |
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This may not be the best thread in which to bring this up. GDP counts consumption and government spending as "productivity." Thus buying beer and government weapons programs count the same as investments in new factory machinery or rehabbing roads and failing bridges. Note that buying consumables is a one time event and economists believe that military spending diverts funds from productive investments.
Some military spending is necessary given the world we live in, but is the United States in imminent danger of being invaded? Anyway, many question the use of GDP as a true measure of a nation's economic health. |
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Mr Putin is truthful about his agenda and his priorities. It contrasts strongly with Mr Trump, who doesn't even know what his policy agenda is; but who, if he did have a policy agenda, would certainly lie about it as a matter of principle.
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re: Trump abandons Montenegro
Does Trump even know where Montenegro is?
Does he know that "aggressive" Montenegro's army would fit in a medium sized movie theatre? Does Trump know that the Montenegro that he might not support, has a sizable percentage of it's tiny armed forces in Afghanistan right now serving on behalf of the United States under NATO's Article 5, invoked before Montenegro even became a member? There's gratitude for you! |
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That would be because Flight MH17 was shot down from rebel controlled territory by a unit of the Russian Army.
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Letting a prime suspect take part in an ongoing investigation, and thereby giving him the opportunity to influence the outcome of the very same investigation equals a confession of guilt in my book. |
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I would submit his does know what his policy is: to take the US out of NATO. Why that is his policy is open to question. It may simply be a restatement of the historical American isolation policy; more insidiously, it could be an attempt to form a strategic partnership with Russia as a bulwark against a resurgent China.
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