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What are the economics of war?

What are the economics of war?

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Last March, Thierry Breton, the EU’s commissioner for internal market, advocated for a shift of the European defense industry toward a war economy.

Europe is facing an “existential threat,” he said, as the Commission announced a new defense strategic plan, with a minimum of €1.5 billion ($1.6…

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  1. If your country does not have a strong military and a decent military-industrial complex, one day you may wake up and learn that your country has been a part of historical Russia and Vlad is there to collect. 🤣

    Seriously though, spending 3-4% of your GDP is not too much to ask especially in our current realities of Cold War 2.0. Preparation is the best prevention. Of course it would have been better if the tensions had melted and we grew to trust each other and build bridges but we live in a different timeline now. Sad but we are where we are. We cannot turn the time back, we gotta adapt to our reality and hope that in the future things will turn out for the better again. But it will take a few more decades for the pages of history to turn…

  2. Is everyone else getting the vibe we're being prepared as a society for a large global conflict?

    I recommend Smedley Butler's "War is a racket" if you do.

  3. USA 🇺🇸 is a war economy. US Dollar 💵 as the global reserve currency helps run the economy. It is actively involved in war with one country or another either directly or by proxy. Its defence industry is the largest in the world. The same cannot be said for other countries as neither Euro 💶 nor Chinese Yuan are accepted as reserve currencies due to the SWIFT Banking System.

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