[SpaceBar]

Maybe instead of perpetuating their status as a third world hell hole with all the latest whiz-bang military toys, they should perhaps build a few sewer systems or water treatment plants for a change.

[sukhoi-30mki]

& you assume that all the money saved from military spending will go into welfare???

[CarrotAndStick]

It’s a trade-off. One would be a complete idiot to concentrate all resources on a sewer system while leaving an already-tense and contested border with countries that are rapidly upgrading their stike capabilities(lookup China and its borders), vulnerable.

Asia ain’t North America.

[Arjun]

You could then say that the US should build better bridges and levies instead of buying more F/A-22 raptors. The argument doesnt hold. You need both ..to defend yourself and to improve infrastructure. Not either/Or.

[spetznaz]

There is nothing wrong with sewer systems and water treatment plants, but to not invest any funds into national security would be pure folly. Particularly when your neighbors include China (which is rapidly militarising and views India as one of its largest regional potential threats) and Pakistan (which is probably the most neurotic nation on Earth, is nuclear armed, is essentially a Chinese puppet, and has been in several wars with India).

All the sewer systems and water treatment plants will not make China and Pakistan hold hands with India and sing kumbaya.