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[–] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 26 points 5 months ago (1 children)

So, this is why Americans have no universal healthcare?

[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml 15 points 5 months ago

Yes, in part to maintain a navy that is probably more costly than rest of the world navies combined (or close to it) and which failed at using good old gunboat diplomacy against country with no navy and which is decimated by years of war at this point.