"meager real economy output" what

What's the comparison, US is at war so it's like WW2 Germany? Hasn't it been this way since the 1960s?

Yeah I'm not convinced that Ukraine is a real concern for the EU. The US has been trying to pull Ukraine into NATO for decades, which pissed off Russia because it's right next to them, and we thought they weren't going to do anything about it. Would the EU alone have followed such a strategy? Probably not, seeing how Germany blocked Ukraine from NATO in 2008 specifically to avoid angering Russia.

Iran isn't a problem for the US, it's a problem for Israel. They're a third-world country on the other side of the world. And their govt is severely corrupt and oppressive, but that's their problem, which we aren't even trying to fix with this war.

I'd be fine if Iran had nuclear weapons. They're not a threat to the US. The nukes wouldn't even be useful against its neighbors except in maybe a self-preservation scenario. It's not like North Korea, Russia, Pakistan, Israel, etc are using the threat of nukes to take territory, even though Russia is fighting a hot war right now.

You were comparing to 1920s Germany preparing for war, and it's not about Nazis?? It's not even that I disagree, it's just, you clearly meant this and then acted like someone is silly to interpret it that way.

I thought he meant loose, as in create two world wars

Yeah, that's probably just a typo, but you could argue that German engineering gave Germany the ability to "loose" war on the world.

You don't need a military alliance to have trade.

Our serious adversaries like China must love that we're focusing so much on the Middle East. They don't even have to get directly involved for it to be expensive and fruitless for us, in fact they make money selling weapons. Should be a national priority to banish the Israeli lobby from the US.

California grocery stores scan ID too

Nah, that already didn't work because corps are very good at creating network effects in children and will set up multi-billion-dollar businesses around them. And then the kids with protective parents become the weird ones in school. I'll die on the hill of curtailing this stuff in a privacy-preserving way.

> I'll die on the hill of curtailing this stuff in a privacy-preserving way.

At some point you'll realize the contradiction in not trusting these "multi-billion-dollar businesses" to the point that you are risking enslaving humanity and "dying on this hill" and yet at the same time trusting those same businesses to implement this dystopian system in a privacy-preserving way.

When that realization hits, it will be a loud sound, possibly heard by nearby telepaths.

That's fine, say hi to the telepaths in advance for me