you cannot have a strong military and a collapsed economy. soldiers need to eat and feed their families first, before they can fight. too many of us have fallen into the trap of the hunter gatherer mindset. do not think in terms of stuff. think in terms of production of stuff. there isn't enough stuff to survive much more than a few months. you need a healthy functioning, prosperous economy just to maintain the current standard of living, let alone to fund a regional or global military hegemon. a bunch of hungry soldiers in threadbare uniforms, holding rusty aks with 4 corroded 7.62x39s in the dented magazine isn't an army, they're a scarecrow. that's what happened in syria just last week.
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