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		tegmark on Oct 6, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: U.S. federal price tag for the post-9/11 wars is o... and we literally launched into another expensive proxy war literally as soon as we left afghanistan. i think if you told people in 2008 that this would be the case, they would find it impossible to comprehend.

cloverich on Oct 6, 2023 [–]

We've been in proxy wars with Russia more or less continuously since ww2. Iraq / Afghanistan are all related to it.

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