US spent 6.4 TRILLION in the Middle East on wars. None of that was ever “to avoid WWIII”.
It cost every working American 42,000 USD. These wars cost the lives of almost 1 mio people and 21 mio were displaced. [0]
Do you honestly believe this was for the good of the world and necessary to prevent WWIII? I am not even suggesting something like “why don’t you spend all that budget on a better health care system, free education and racial equality” because I know that would just push blood pressure. But I know that you won’t worry so much about these insane spendings - because your children and grand-children will have to pay back all the debt these irresponsible arguments accumulated. So smart your generation has been!
WWII was a consequence of WWI. Germans are pretty chill these days and complain about increasing military budgets. So who should ever want to start WWIII???
And just for the sake of completing an argument: you do know, that Europe is now taking financial responsibility and giving shelter to those people in the Middle East whose livelihoods were destroyed, right? The refugee crisis is not “a natural occurrence”. Europe learned its lesson and prefers spending money on helping others rather than showcasing military strength and gadgets.
So what portion of the US Defense budget then is doing good for Nato, world-peace and avoiding WWIII? We rules out the spendings in the Middle East then? If you do not support the most obvious and on-going wars - how can you trust your government that they do the right thing?
I’m at a loss here. I keep hearing you say that others push the envelope and the US constantly prevents WWIII... But then again - they are the only ones constantly at war and nobody knows why.
Then American developed the bomb and started playing world police and we haven’t had one since.
Nobody said “evil East” except you.
I didn’t say America are the good guys. Just that I think America’s actions have prevented WWIII or anything close.