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The world would be a much better place if only our enemies had any weapons.
No, you see, we need to design new and exciting kinds of bombs for the country with a larger military budget than the next ten largest national military budgets on Earth put together which we know they will drop on children, because if we don't, you see, then another country like China with a fifth of our defense spending might build a newer bomb and drop it on someone we do like. Which we would be powerless to prevent.
Yes, like Taiwan.
Remember, kids, there's no such thing as defense, only offense. The only thing you can do to stop yourself being bombed is threaten to send anyone who upsets you back to the stone age 👍
And you gotta be scared of Taiwan. It's a real scary threat. A tiny island nation with a military budget nearly 2% the size of ours! There's no such thing as radar and anti-missile countermeasures, you know. If we don't have enough bombs to drop on children to make a worldwide show out of what happens to anyone who offends us, there's absolutely nothing stopping a country like Taiwan from wiping our biggest cities off the map!
Oh what's that? Taiwan makes most of our semiconductors and all they would have to do to cripple our economy is stop selling them to us? Well that's all the more reason to need bombs then, isn't it? Just as as something to... how you say... "align incentives".
No, silly, I meant China would bomb Taiwan 😂
Seriously, though, read a newspaper or something.
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