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Originally Posted by Skybird
The devil in this is that this will cost us a very big amount of money as well. And that in a constantly growing crisis of paper money and debts. Fundamentally boosting defence budgets, is not popular, and in principle, if talking real value-money, it is impossible, it can only be done on illusive credit, since we have no credits bolstered by savings anymore. From Austrian school's view, that is dramatic.
Last time we had such a constellation of financial and political factors, it led to brown socialists taking over, and WWII was the result.
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That is a problem that flickers in the back of my mind too, a lot of extra funding is going to have to go into NATO to bolster up defences that have either been let to run down since 1991, or have been altered to deal with a desert environment. We don't have that funding.
Something is going to have to give somewhere...although to be fair, Russia doesn't have that money either, and their military is in the middle of a massive overhaul which probably won't be complete until next decade, but it's still something we're going to have to look at if we're determined to go back to the Cold War again.
Unless of course America is looking to stop Cold War 2 before it starts by collapsing Russia again through economic means, again.
That probably won't work as well as they hope it will, if indeed that is their plan (which I personally doubt it).