1) FOCUS #3
Be VERY careful with sweeping claims such as "cut military expenditures". I'm all for it DEPENDING on where the cuts will be made. If you hand the candidate a blank check, they will use it.
Be VERY careful with sweeping claims such as "cut military expenditures". I'm all for it DEPENDING on where the cuts will be made. If you hand the candidate a blank check, they will use it.
2) One possible scenario: cut expenditures with American legal troops, their welfare and safety but not on contracts with Private Military Companies.
The outcome of such a cut is a possible end-game global conflict. Why?
The outcome of such a cut is a possible end-game global conflict. Why?
3) Because companies are not people. They don't have morals, social responsibility, loyalty, etc. They function on the logic of optimized profit. What optimized profit for a PMS? Wider and wider militarized (and expensive) conflict.
4) Because this is an economic niche that doesn't generate WEALTH, its impact in any economy is catastrophic by itself, not to mention that wars kill folks.
5) FOCUS. Ask your candidate where military spending will be cut. It needs to be cut but in specific places. Places nobody wants to talk about.
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