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The usa military budget is non comparable to european military budgets, they pay for different things. IMO.
They do? What do you mean?
It includes costs for retired personnel and social security (social security is not in the military budget in most or any European countries) for example.
In addition, they patrol the entire planets oceans, and are the main reason why you don't have pirates just taking ships constantly.
(I'm not necessarily saying piracy is bad...)
But I feel like the violent enforcement of extreme inequality is what creates pirates, not what stops them.
No, mass scale looting of ships is stopped by armed navies, along with the instant communication and remote viewing that make it impossible to do it without anyone noticing. You don't even need severe inequality for people to think about stealing 100 million dollar cargo moving slowly by itself.