I agree. And I think are current military is insanely large. We spend around the same as the rest of the world combined. But I wouldn't go so far as to say we should have no military. History does have examples where countries were attacked because their military were or seemed weak. WWII has some of the best examples. The problem with our politics now is that those examples are the ONLY ones that most people, especially on the right, ever seem to know about. They ignore all the many more examples of when nations and empires went corrupt and bankrupt as a result of too much power and reliance on the military.
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