1. Improve the quality of lives at home and overseas.
2. Continue warring over continuously depleting resources
Let's look at these options more closely.
1. If the lives overseas are better, well, that's just a good thing, because we're good people.
But let's take the altruism out of the equation for a moment. If other people of the world are better off, then there's less friction and fewer hotspots. If there's less friction and fewer hotspots, most of the troops can come back home, creating even less friction and fewer hotspots. Virtuous cycle.
And if other people of the world are better off, then there is less need to war with us and war among themselves. If they war with us, we need to defend and, typically, get over-involved. If they war among themselves, we again get typically over-involved, especially if they are tied to important resources or logistics lines. (I said I'd take the altruism out of the equation). So let's do charity instead of war.
If we spend our national resources on the environment, then we won't have to spend more and more repairing damage and finding new short-term solutions to the problems we caused. And then there's less friction and fewer hotspots (see above).
An once of prevention is worth more than a pound of cure. Treat root causes more than symptoms. Focus on the holistic more than the local and immediate.
Let's turn back time. Make Earth Great Again (MEGA).
That does not mean ignore charity at home. But charity abroad is charity at home. Get it now?
We are all one. We're all part of the same system, we all swim in the same pool. What you do to them is what you do to you. It doesn't matter who you mean by them or who you mean by you. The principle remains the same.
2. Or, we can do the same thing and just spend our resources on more and more war and more and more destruction of the planet.
I like the first plan better, don't you?
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