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by permo-w 1380 days ago
the outcomes of WW2 are a large part of the answer to this question
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gwbas1c 1380 days ago
Which partially is because the US is an island nation with no threats at its borders. There is very little threat of ground war in the US. Historically, the border with Canada was a formality; and the border with Mexico is small.
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whiddershins 1379 days ago
More realistically the Revolutionary War.
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permo-w 1379 days ago
I completely disagree
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whiddershins 1379 days ago
Then why don't Mexican software companies pay really extra well? Mexico wasn't damaged by WWII at all!
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permo-w 1379 days ago
it’s not that the US wasn’t damaged by WW2, it’s that it hugely benefited
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