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Why did you remove the rest of the post from the screenshot?
If I could wave a magic wand and end all wars and give the entire planet universal healthcare, I would.
All I pointed out was that 1/3 of the estimated $8 trillion total cost of the US wars post-9/11 will be dedicated to veteran healthcare; whereas funding another country's war doesn't come with those costs.
It's not a hot take. It's not a position. You're projecting.
That magic wand would be not funding proxy wars and arming the neighbours of hostile nations against those nations. Oh wait, it's not a magic wand. It's literally what the United States does and it cost thousands and thousands of lives. Something not even accounted for in the post. Why does America need to cripple Russia?
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If I could wave a magic wand and end all wars and give the entire planet universal healthcare, I would.
Wanting to improve society somewhat 
is a goal that is only possible if magic is real. 
I most certainly did not, you might have edited it later, but that was your whole comment at the time.
Edit: it was an edit, and also doesn't make your comment any less callous and disgusting.
I edited shortly after originally posting. I've noticed that sometimes edits don't federate correctly.
For anyone who is curious, please follow the link for the citation.
Edit: it was an edit, and also doesn't make your comment any less callous and disgusting.
The whole thing is callous and disgusting. They surely use analyses like the one I pointed out in making the justifications to do what they're doing.
Let's pour oceans of money and material into creating exponentially more needy veterans from an unfathomably more brutal war for the sole purpose of meat grinding a geopolitical rival that we've all but forced into this position, it'll be cheaper because we don't care what happens to those people!
- A treatise on the morality of liberalism
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