NATO officials say they were briefed on Russian bounties on US soldiers.

[KingScorpio]

Politics is a professional theater with real dramas and deaths. Americans are intimidated by Russians, and Russians are intimidated by Americans as they were 20 years ago. Nothing changes. One thing I don't understand is why do our governments spend so much of their tax money on this war if nothing changes?

because if they wouldn't the russians threat would become much bigger, besides america is internally much more broken than it claims,

the entire left in the usa is racist to the bones.

[lovesmayfamilis]

One thing I don't understand is why do our governments spend so much of their tax money on this war if nothing changes?

Everyone has long known that war is big money. For an ordinary person, war is terrible grief, and if you look more globally, the more developed the country's economy, the more money is spent on weapons. Demand for war has always been and will be. From this, the military business remains the most profitable business.

[squatz1]

Politics is a professional theater with real dramas and deaths. Americans are intimidated by Russians, and Russians are intimidated by Americans as they were 20 years ago. Nothing changes. One thing I don't understand is why do our governments spend so much of their tax money on this war if nothing changes?

Nothing changes but many the military industrial complex gets tons of $$$$ to produce weapons of war and to provide for our large military. Stock prices go up and investors are happy. They keep investors happy by continuously lobbying the government to spend more money on war to pay them. It's a vicious cycle.

People also forget that it's not just the military industrial complex that likes the 'defense department' -- its the millions of Americans who are employed because of this system. I think one of the last estimates I read was like 6M Americans employed either directly or indirectly (private contractor) by the department of defense. (3m are employed directly by DOD)

Our economy heavily relies on this government spending. Could this money be shifted to other ideas? Maybe.

[madnessteat]

~snip~

This happens because the authorities consider us a herd of rams and they don't care about our opinions. All they care about is personal bank accounts. We will never live well as long as the authorities seek to increase corporate profits. Instead, it is necessary to increase the level of social responsibility and the living standards of workers.

[squatz1]

~snip~

This happens because the authorities consider us a herd of rams and they don't care about our opinions. All they care about is personal bank accounts. We will never live well as long as the authorities seek to increase corporate profits. Instead, it is necessary to increase the level of social responsibility and the living standards of workers.

Are they wrong though? All we do is sit around and argue about Red and Blue issues, when the only real issue is Rich vs everyone else.

The people with the money want us to argue about bullshit issues like abortion, guns, religion, etc. They know that if we're so focused on arguing about this, they're able to do whatever they want with our money in the meantime. They continue to get richer and richer, and all of us are stuck bickering about issues that have different winners every year so everyone feels like their politicans care about them.

The politicans are put of the machine as well. Politics is a HUGE industry, and they know it. The only thing that the two parties will agree with every single time is that there should only be two parties. They share the power, the money, the fame, and so on. They take turns every so often and everyone gets a nice payday.

[Barnabe]

One thing I don't understand is why do our governments spend so much of their tax money on this war if nothing changes?

Everyone has long known that war is big money. For an ordinary person, war is terrible grief, and if you look more globally, the more developed the country's economy, the more money is spent on weapons.

Not true, if you look at spending in military in terms of % of GDP most of the biggest countries are far from rich.

[madnessteat]

~The only thing that the two parties will agree with every single time is that there should only be two parties. They share the power, the money, the fame, and so on. They take turns every so often and everyone gets a nice payday.

I agree with that. Each of the parties promotes their interests using the power, but in fact they all sail in the same boat and do something good for their citizens only to show how good they are and to get more votes in the election race.