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Originally posted by dd74
But the result is the same: isolation.
No, there's a huge difference, in both day to day life and in long range health of the population.

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Because if a country were to pull out of the internal affairs of nations in which it has an economic interest, those economic interests can be kissed goodbye, as well as other interests, including social and cultural.
What evidence do you have to support that assertion? I know of none, but plenty of evidence directly to the contrary.

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There isn't a sane business leader who'd involve billions of stockholder money in a country of dubious political standing. Before sinking cash into a country, one wants to be assured of the safety of their investiments. Withdrawal, in my opinion, immediately upsets those investments.
There's the basic issue, you're speaking of corporate welfare, which is what th military is all about today, and has been for the entire 20th century. War is a Racket was written in 1935 by Major General Smedley D. Butler winner of the Medal of Honor, twice. This kind of welfare by murder must be ended.
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