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Actually people who compulsively buy things can have an identifiable mental illness. Why would people who compulsively believe the world is about to end then spend all their money on emergency shelters, food and guns not?
Modern western civilisation is grounded on compulsive consumption. I can agree it's insane, but I don't think we're all mentally ill.
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A large chunk of modern military training is explicitly to prevent guys from saying that reflexively.
It actually has toned down some, if you can believe it (at least in the Marine Corps).
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John von Neumann, one of a handful of people most responsible for the existence of your job, proposed a pre-emptive strike. He needed fast digital computers to calculate bomb parameters and effects, so he helped invent them. http://www.the-tls.co.uk/tls/public/article1179883.ece quote: This unsettling scenario might be pre-empted by a more apocalyptic one: nuclear Armageddon. George Dyson’s Turing’s Cathedral [1] rev…
>He acknowledged that atomic weaponry was a “monster” but perceived it as the lesser of two evils, Backing Hitler, preemptive nuclear strike, what is it with communism that drive people to such extremes against it?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2826980/Winston-Chur...
Churchill was certainly no communist.
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That's very much incorrect. China, India, North Korea and the Russian Federation precede Turkey as well. South Korea and Pakistan are close (and so is Iran but not so well equipped).
I don't know if the comment was amended, but they're talking about NATO members exclusively. Turkey has a 'deployable military' of 495k according to this link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Member_states_of_NATO#Military_...
F if i know how Norway manages to spend that much on military, when there is a constant complaint about it being underfunded.
Btw, i think you need to roll the next 7-8 into one before matching the US troop numbers. Nuts.