Message from @UnfilteredGarbage
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@Snake right, because we haven't rebuilt Iraq in our image
What is it, something like 60% of all taxes are absorbed by the buerocratic machinery and then 30% actually gets used? 15% goes missing half the time <:hypersmugon:544638648721604608>
....so we pumped Millions into Iraq to build them up?
The middle east is very resource rich
Japan is infamously resource poor
And yet...
@SPOOKY Phil, Ruler of Heck no, im just giving my idealized gameplan
Japanese post-war economic miracle
DEFINED SEA for the last half-century
Is this john Bolton's discord?
fuck off carter
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What makes you think you can do that with Iraq? The culture is vastly different, japan did adopt a lot of western culture before we went to war with them in the first place
@Spooky Melon We should do a Japan with them TBH. Might turn Iraq into one that oh-so-rare classification known as "non-shithole ME countries"
**wait a second**
**let israel conquer the sandlands**
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I’m ok with that
Israel can have it
I don’t give a fuck about the Middle East
we still get our ally
Fair deal then
@Snake Japan was culturally shut-off from the entire globe for hundreds of years before colonialism. Iraq being in the stone-age is essentially the same.
Besides, the middle east was beginning to modernize on its own before the Soviet campaigns of the 80s
the lands still improve
Fuck the middle east
we dont have to do anything but sell hardware
Maybe then we can stop funding 🇮🇱 because they will be self-sufficient
The potential is definitely there in the middle east
@Spooky Melon deadass we have a compromise
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@ArmouredHeart you're a fool if you think our funding of Israel is motivated by economic necessity
**Sandlands will become a jewish 🅱ethnostate**
I should have included
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Also someone said how shitty the us government is at money management and yes I agree
That would be me
We need to purge the bureaucracies
Yeah that’s right
An america-anchored middle east will be an important bulwark against chinese economic aggression in Africa in the next few decades too
@Snake absolute agreement
Decentralize government authority and tax spending, return power to the states.
But I don’t understand why you care about the Chinese anyway, militarily they’re hard as hell to fight. But economically we can crush them
(all bureaucracies are shit at it tbh, but you need them to handle the money in the first place, so all i can wager is "make the bureaucracies better via regulation and purging and shit")
@Snake any war with the chinese would be primarily economic before it were military, I think. I think we're headed for a trade Cold War with them.