Posted on 04/06/2010 1:51:30 PM PDT by WesternCulture
military spending Sweden 44 Billion
military spending US 685 Billion
With an extra 641 billion a year I could pay for a lot of social programs and pretty parks.
so maybe it is time to cut back and work on providing safety to our country, firm borders and clean up our cities.
If the US cut it's defense budget back to Sweden levels...
*shudder*
well... lets just say that the bad guys wouldn't be cutting back their budgets.
The entire middle east would be occupied within a year by a Caliphate. South Africa would descend into perpetual war. Europe would then erupt in ethnic chaos forcing Russia to retake it's satellites. Africans would die of starvation by the 10’s of millions, China would almost immediately take over all of it's surrounding satellites forcing Japan to change it's constitution and ramp up military spending. And that's just for starters.
America is the only thing standing between the modern world and the abyss. Without America military spending... the whole world would enter a new dark ages and all democracies would be swept from the globe to be replaced by warring dictatorships.
well... lets just say that the bad guys wouldn’t be cutting back their budgets.
The entire middle east would be occupied within a year by a Caliphate. South Africa would descend into perpetual war. Europe would then erupt in ethnic chaos forcing Russia to retake it’s satellites. Africans would die of starvation by the 10’s of millions, China would almost immediately take over all of it’s surrounding satellites forcing Japan to change it’s constitution and ramp up military spending. And that’s just for starters.
I dont have a problem with any of this. If the peoples of asia, africa and the middle east want to become fighting horrors, let them have at it. Not our problem. We arenot going to fix or contain anything there for long.
You can not compare a Country(Sweden) to US of A which is part of North American Continent along side Canada.However you can compare a matching US State to the size of Sweden to make your comparison.
“We are the worlds police force”
- True, in many ways.
“..we don’t get to tax the world for the safety we provide”
- True indeed.
“The token armies that most countries have are a joke that would be swept aside in hours if they faced a real threat.”
- I beg to differ.
My country, Sweden, could erase a nation like Iran out of World maps by making full use of the means at our disposal.
They couldn’t exactly sneak up the shores of our home waters and annihilate our capital.
But we could do that to them..
I was thinking a of real threats like Russia or China, Iran is a joke.
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