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Originally Posted by noonereal
how does spending on a war rather than infrastructure help us?
What were the economic benefits of Vietnam for example?
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1. Iron? Steel? Shipbuilding? Munitions? Overseas infrastructure, built by us, at a profit?
2. Nothing, considering how we tried to do that on the cheap and never committed. Oriskany, Intrepid, Hancock, Ticonderoga, Bennington, Yorktown, New Jersey, etc? We used 25-year old ships against a 3rd World "power"...