[jopsen]

True, that said I think it's viable to argue that just defending America at coastline in WWII would likely have led to an undesirable outcome.

But yes, colonial conflict before after WWII is probably more of a racket.

That said, the cold war didn't stayed cold -- which was nice. Credit NATO (maybe), to be fair NATO is probably also a racket for the military industrial complex (by making countries buy more F35s for example).

[CyanBird]

I mean, there is certainly a reason why US has been upset for so long that EU countries haven't been spending enough money on military equipment, these Raytheon ceo and stock bonuses are not gonna appear out of thin air!