re: The Magnitude Of US Naval Dominance

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But god forbid anyone suggest cutting the budget.

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For perspective, not having a dominating superpower and not supplying enough foreign aid after WWI cost the world about 2.5% of the population and nearly all of its economic output for about 6 years...

That is equivalent to roughly $10-12 trillion a year from the united States every year in 2014 economic terms, and roughly 180 million people killed in today's population statistics.

Stability costs money, and the return is enormous. It is no accident that the US went from Isolationist to 19 aircraft carriers.

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