fiat currencies represent the collective wealth of a given society supported by a government that demands that wealth to be taxed in the form of their given currency

That's another thing I hate the topic of.. tax..

nah, isolated and prehistory hunter gathers are the perfect examples of how humans act without centralized authority. Steppe societies and so on are similar. The wild west was a pale imitation of that between urban sectors. People dont have a dignity culture under those circumstances, they practice honor cultures and kin selection to the detriment of others.

Like I'm sorry, we're well past WW2, and the military don't need as much money as they get.. to do what.. build weapons of destruction... plot new wars... kill.. not educate children, supply the medical fields with the right knowledge, equipment...

hmm depends on what you mean by military spending

our airforce and missile development definitely needs the funds

"Missing" equipment, new jets, tanks, bombs, other weapons.. They honestly do no need the funds

our infantry has over inflated costs

how long are they planning on keeping humans fighting humans?

it's stupid

bro, why are you against people fighting if you support a lack of centralized authority?

anarchy is the best situation to fight in because it has the most potential benefit in relation to cost

its only when hegemonic powers rise up when that changes

I'm sorry, ISIS isn't going to roll up in a F-35 and bomb shit out your cities with H bombs

I support fighting to a degree... a gentlemans fight, not a massacre

homo sapiens are not peaceful animals, we rose from Africa genociding our cousins on the homo genus evolutionary tree to exert global dominance and then we fought amongst ourselves in similar fashion

thats why i specified near peers

Hand to hand, not 1000m away with a sniper....

china and russia have developed 5th generation fighters as well as hypersonic missile capabilities that when sold or used, represent direct threats to numerous peoples and trade routes

the US is ahead in fighters but behind in missiles

The UK has one of the most sophisticated militaries in the world... not exactly the most sophisticated of soldiers mind you.... but who's going to attack us

threats on allies already occurred such as on south korea and taiwan

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_transition_theory

And they've got a secret nuclear stash aint they

not all nuclear weapons are equal, hypersonic weapons change the ball game and the US is currently behind on their development

MIRV ICBMs are no longer capable of providing regional hegemony alone

I can understand why the US has enemies... but the UK literally has the occasional suicide bomber and half the time the bombs are stupidly weak or badly built, and of course the odd guy with a knife... that's all the threats we deal with here

The UK is a country that relies on financial trade networks for its economy and those are easily destabilized by previously brought up near peer nations

Yeah and we've fucked most of that because we've left the EU hahaha

and its actually nations like the UK and France thats harmed the most by hypersonic weapon development in terms of MAD

Thanks to our own form of americans on our land we call "the English", scotland was scottish, celtic land before the English took our land

their nukes dont mean anything if a first strike decommissions them

meh, celtic peoples and anglos arent that far removed

youre basically just northern bell beaker peoples

Emm, one half only spoke Gaelic, the other half spoke English.. .

and guess what,

now near enough the entire UK speaks English now...

Gaelic was our native tongue

yes, the dominant culture wins out

And now we're stuck with the bastards

We'll trade you English slaves for weed