@LearnTribe@mastodon.social @alienghic @Argus@mastodon.technology
Agreed, on that, we need an army of some sort, as they are large numbers, trained and equipped to support or provide support.
To so degree the US uses its military for humanitarian purposes because it's pretty good at delivering large piles of stuff to places, partially to make Americans feel better about the military, and lastly because there's not really anything else that has significant funding.
@alienghic @LearnTribe@mastodon.social @Argus@mastodon.technology
if the world could just use their military for that, we could save a lot of money on certain hardware, that can be spent actually funding sustainable tech
@alienghic @LearnTribe@mastodon.social @Argus@mastodon.technology
Indeed, yea if we end up off guard someone will take advantage (I guess Afghanistan is an example)
What we need to do, is stop trying to impose western ways of doing stuff on everyone else.
@zleap @LearnTribe @Argus
Some amount of military is probably needed because someone is always going to try to become a warlord. The problem for the world is that western society came from a long line of thuggish empires that liked to beat up other groups and steal all their loot.