Yeah, I thought you were kidding, but I wasn't sure.

Edit: you should be more careful when it comes to jokes like that. It always leaves you with the risk of someone being able to quote you directly and claim you're a bigot. Pointing out that it was taken out of context never sounds good.

Why not? Let them squander their fortune building an army instead of an infrastructure and further enriching the citizens of their country. Eventually the citizenry of Venezuela will catch on it's a bad idea.

Yep, and I would not be suprised to see it all end up the same way as well.

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Send him to Germany.
We still need a lot of street sweepers.

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"There is no means of avoiding the final collapse
of a boom brought about by credit (debt) expansion.
The alternative is only whether the crisis should come sooner
as the result of a voluntary abandonment of further credit (debt) expansion,
or later as a final and total catastrophe of the currency system involved." - Ludwig von Mises

Yer slow tadaeh.
Awa wi the Paddy.
Have coffe instaed.

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"There is no means of avoiding the final collapse
of a boom brought about by credit (debt) expansion.
The alternative is only whether the crisis should come sooner
as the result of a voluntary abandonment of further credit (debt) expansion,
or later as a final and total catastrophe of the currency system involved." - Ludwig von Mises

Dear God in heaven!!!
WTF?? Buying Russian arms??
Son of a Bitch...while this Putin guy rides around topless on a horse he has people so hungry they are selling their arms!!???
WHat in the...what...oh.

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The essence of tyranny is the denial of complexity; where everything is made simple, and in that simplification the truth is lost.

So you think that every bit of US military spending is necessary and efficient?

You are a nation of neat-freaks.

I'm hoping to live there for a while and I'm planning to drop at least one piece of litter every day just to freak you guys out.

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Great Quotes from Great Americans:

"With regard to the words 'general welfare', I have always regarded them as qualified by the details of the powers connected with them. To take them in a literal and unlimited sense would be a metamorphisis of the Constitution into a character which there is a host of proofs was not contemplated by its creators."James Madison, Father of the Constitution

A bit off topic, but no.

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Courage, Truth, Honor, Fidelity, Discipline, Hospitality, Industriousness, Self-Reliance, Perseverance

I would say it is a big NO. Ludicrous amounts spent on unnecessary bullshit, indeed. Should be the military's motto if they were honest about it.

Why by expensive weapons we can destroy with a push of a button?

It's just as easy to take them over with outdated weapons as it would be if they were throwing rocks at us (not that we want to).

Souldn't it be more of a motto for useless politicans and their try to please lobbyists and their "voters"?

I mean, I haven't served in the US-military, but (for me) a true and professional soldier will serve no matter what his equipment is like, so don't blame the military for "elected" fuckhead's decissons and wasting of taxpayers money.

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I'll never agree that advancing technology is a waste of taxpayers money.

That would depend on the technology, wouldn't it? And besides, you don't need to build numerous operational models of a technology in order to advance it. You can advance it with it being recorded and at most tested by building a prototype.

Is advancing technolgy a "mission" in/for itself for the military/government in your opinion?

In my opinion it's not, but as the main topic of the thread are Venezuealean arm deals, it's truely off topic.

Anyway Hugo seems to be just wasting his citizens (tax) money and no matter how much he'll spend, it won't be enough to get any decent, modern military.

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Thomas Hobbes