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Military spending often operates on a loophole in this sort of thinking; but also Switzerland also appears, from the outside, to be a nation comfortable with the idea that collective action is a good idea (perhaps a lack of Murdoch media or Koch-style billionaires?), while in the English-speaking world we've seen a thirty to forty year assault on the Kensyian consensus that rebuilt Western Europe after WW II, towards a culture of aggressive individualism, to the exent one British cabinet minister describes himself as a "neo-Victorian".