magine:
The US if Vietnam, Iraq, Libya, Syria, or Afghanistan had never happened.
Can we even begin to calculate the value of the blood and treasure which was wasted?
Yes. Blood was easily counted for USA dead casualties, about 300,000 [by memory, plus maimed]. Add about, 2 million local dead, plus casualties - 10 million. USA dead/maimed say $2 million per unit = $600 billion [to achieve about nothing, though weapon manufacturers scored big bucks and their politician sidekicks were well-funded]. I guess about $5 million additional spent per casualty on this that and the other = another $2 trillion. Something like $3 trillion. Plus foreigners and destruction.
Would 9/11 have taken place ?
Maybe not as Osama said he was reacting to USA militarism in and aimed at Moslem places, such as Iraq, Saudi Arabia, but he was anti-Israel and hence USA anyway. So maybe so.
What would our economy look like?
Maybe no better as politicians would keep looting just the same. Tax policy is squeeze them until they squeal. Politicians would blow the loot just the same on dumb ideas and vote bribing, themselves and hangers-on. Bludgers keep voting for more tax-payer looting.
What would our tax burden be?
About the same. Any election everyone can vote for Rand Paul and free enterprise no-bludger candidates. But people keep voting for bludgers and wastrelism galore.
What would our deficits look like?
About the same. Spendthrift wastrels spending up opm to their borrowing limit - a variety of drug-addict.
Would’ve we gotten off the gold standard?
Yes. Unrestrained printing of Magic Money Theory loot is popular. Gold stood in the way.
What would our homeless population look like?
Homeless = a social failure by destruction of their motivation in childhood and then adulthood. The absurd idea that women are the same as men has wrecked the social success of bygone centuries in which women and men formed pair-bonded powerful dichotomy against the chaos of the four forces of the apocalypse, in co-operation with others, in an hierarchy of competency within a legal framework for all. That women=men MADness has not gone full-scale deflection to TLGBQWERTY gender fluid idiocy. Women can't do what men can do and men can't do what women can do and want to do [even if they have been lied to and lied to themselves and come to believe their own bullshit]. Of course both can drive cars [near enough], hold cutlery, and do lots of things. Some men are girly-men and women tom-boys etc etc. Camille Paglia says it as it is pretty much, from the several hours I've listened to her. Most men are too scared to say what they think these days. Just checked a bit of Paglia - yes, still good: And she asserted that its greatness resulted from a creative but violent tension between male and female—between the Apollonian male principle of order (civilization) and the Dionysian female principle of chaos (nature). Two of the book’s most quoted lines are “If civilization had been left in female hands, we would still be living in grass huts” and “There is no female Mozart because there is no female Jack the Ripper.” Reading Sexual Personae, one reviewer wrote, was “a bit like being mugged.”
Simplistic, necessarily, because writing is a linear activity rather than 3 dimensional, rounded out into fullness by megabytes of words, but correct as far as it goes. Actually, I disagree with that creative but violent tension interpretation - I should read Camille's words, not interpretation. But the essential point is right, there's tension, co-operation, differences from who bears and feeds the infant and who catches wildebeest and fights off neighbouring cannibals. Plus the collective vs individual pairs. The greatness came from evolved brain horsepower which derived from the millennia of conflict, sexual selection, challenges, genocide.
And we want a reprise of everything that has debilitated us in a far-away POS country we shouldn’t care a whit about? One that means less than zero to us?
Ukraine is just a means of access to attack Russia, as well as a money-laundering kickback 10%er scam mechanism for the best politicians money can buy. It's not caring about Ukrainians, or there would be referenda already conducted in eastern independent republics and there would have been no war. The USA says it likes democracy, but hasn't mentioned voting in Donetsk and Luhansk as a good solution. Crimea wouldn't matter. The point was that USA wanted war, and now has it. Soon to be good and hard, from New Orleans to Juneau and Los Angeles to New York, plus all over the world. Those crowding the southern border will turn and run for it.
We’re repeating the Romans’ mistakes.
I don't know Roman Empire history, but there are likely similarities. They ran for 1000 years and more. USA is a bit more than 200 years = a fast peaking. Past big-deal empires - Cairo, Athens, Rome, British, all failed. Maybe it was climate change.
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