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7. Note that Europe is now facing having to cut social safety nets

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Fri Apr 3, 2026, 02:01 PM

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in order to fund more military "defense" on scales that, as a proportion of their GDP, are still much smaller than our own – which dmonstrates how much stronger our own safety nets might be if we weren't spending SO much of our real GDP on wars.

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