Thread:JeloElducal/@comment-26888167-20190309115005/@comment-26888167-20190314151634

CaptainRustbolt21 wrote: Redfork2000 wrote: It's not like war is the only purpose of the military. Avoiding war is just as important. When you have such a strong military force as the United States has, no one wants to start a war with you. Same goes to other strong military forces in the world such as Russia or China. The funds for the military force are mostly an investment to help prevent conflicts since, with that kind of force, everyone knows starting a war against you would be suicide. Yeah, you're right on that notion. You see, here's the thing: From an outside perspective, it's very easy for us to say: "Hey, I could do it better. I'd do this and this!" But the problem is, we don't know all the internal factors that lead presidents to make these decisions. It's not like presidents don't think about these issues when they make their decisions. They just have access to much mroe data than we have, so it's only natural that they make decisions we don't understand. They can take into account factors that we don't know of.