alt Hacker NewsIt's not like there's a moral high ground about not collaborating with the military. Unless you want to advantage America's adversaries, namely China, Putin's Russia and Iran's current regime. There's always this implicit, sometimes explicit, "war bad" childish political philosophy in posts like this. In reality war is a given and you have to be prepared to have the upper hand.
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War is bad. And our reality isn’t some unchanging truth. Our actions and choices, or apathy, help shape our reality.
It is not childish to aspire to be better.
the EU has demonstrated for decades that by balancing trades, equality and human rights it can prevent conflicts from happening.
Seems to me that most of our friends in the balkans that have memory of the past wars are overall pretty happy about the current state of things, and there hasn't been wars to contend Alsace-Lorraine in 80 years, is it a record already?
War is very much not a given in the civilized world
I guess nuclear weapons were just inevitable the moment the first quarks were assembled into a proton, right?
"war is a given" =/= "we should seek out wars"
"War is a given" if your foreign policies dictate that outcome. It's not something always unavoidable but it isn't inevitable either.
The United States is one pretty warmongerish nation by any account.