The World’s peace is payed for by US taxpayers and protected in part by the 2nd amendment right of Americans...

@Burnley123 hahaha that was a good one! I'm curious about Greece being second, though, what the fuck? All of our fucking non-existent money go to NATO? And we've seen not much good from it 😂

Ooooh what suspense.... of course we are... but we also need to balance that with being fair to ourselves @Burnley123

@GardenSage I was being ironic. You are currently involved in seven wars.

Well
“True words seem paradoxical”
Lao Tzu, The Tao Te Ching

You’ve got to fight for peace. We haven’t been an antagonist in any war since Spanish American @Burnley123

@GardenSage Lol. You haven't not been the antagonist since the war of independence.

A country has the biggest military of all time because of altruistic pacifism? I don't get that.

@Burnley123 just because you don’t see the logic, doesn’t mean it isn’t there.

Taoism- the philosophy of pacifism- created The Art of War by Sun Tzu... it’s also the grandfather of Kung Fu and specific martial arts such as Tai Chi

True Words Seem Paradoxical

@GardenSage Taoist zen is napalm on Vietnamese fields, bombs on Baghdad and desolation of Syria...

If you think America should have a smaller military, I agree with you but Uncle Sam is a world policeman, not a shepherd.

@Burnley123 at one time it was also limbless men bleeding out on the grassy plains of central China... innocent villages burning to the ground...

No Nation’s past is perfect. Let’s not cherry pick for the sake of feeble juxtaposition

@HannibalAteMeOut the graph is percentage of GDP. Greece contributes the same as before but GDP is smaller so now is contributing too much as a percentage

@GardenSage Of course nobody is perfect. Britain had violent empire, so did Greece and so does America now

The thing is that it's time we learned from other nations' past so that we can improve, not do the same mistakes again. One nation's mistake doesn't justify another's.

@Burnley123 we aren’t inherently violent. That’s skewed and malicious propaganda and you know it. Stop lying through your teeth boy

@GardenSage I did not say you were

@GardenSage you're not inherently violent????? yeah right 🙄

@room101 we aren’t. 💁🏻‍♂️🤷🏻‍♂️

@GardenSage [youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=3&v=bFIYLimyRHU]

You spend more on your military capability than the next nine countries combined.
You have more gun deaths every year than any other country in the developed world by a huge margin.
You are currently involved in at least nine conflicts in various parts of the world. None of which pose a direct, tangible threat to you.

Yeah, you're such a peaceful bunch 😂