It turns out that abandoning allies and tossing out security guarantees is bad for business.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/33330954

It may seem obvious that governments should think through their policies before implementing them; if they don’t, they risk encountering the dreaded law of unintended consequences. That’s exactly what’s happening in the United States’ defense-industrial policy.

  • index@sh.itjust.works
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    12 hours ago

    No one will let us station troops in their country when we show the world that we’re a bunch of backstabbers.

    Let’s hope so, usa has thousand of thousand of military infrastructures around the world