Part of defending your country is seeing to it that everyone feels they have something worth defending. Overwhelming firepower is useless if people won't fight.
Welfare state = (also) defence policy
But do you really believe we would be willing to spend months in the snow and sleet to train to fight and possibly die to defend a society that caters only for the wealthy?
We have a SOCIAL CONTRACT, even if our own bozos don't want to understand that either.
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