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US Has No Real Targets in Yemen, and It's Costing Taxpayers Billions

c/worldnews · u/NightOwl@lemmy.ca · 141 points

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u/wellfill@lemmy.ml · 5 points

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u/CouncilOfFriends@slrpnk.net · 15 points

How else are we supposed to give nearly half of the discretionary spending to defense contractors? We can't just make a big pile of all the bombs, that would be dangerous. Dropping them on poor people ensures they are only dangerous for a brief amount of time, with minimal risk to the ruling class.

u/teri@discuss.tchncs.de · 13 points

And it costs innocent people their lives or makes it at least very miserable. Yeah, what to spend billions for...

u/HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml · 6 points

"Is this just an excuse to funnel public money into private military contracts?"

"Ye man"