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exboyfil

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2. Yes and they keep the sea lanes open

Reply to Kelvin Mace (Original post)

Fri Oct 26, 2012, 09:41 AM

Oct 2012

so we can run a $550B trade deficit (not the mention the cloak of protection we give to economies far larger than the ones we are protecting them against (ie North/South Korea) and (Russia/EU). We also protect Japan and South Korea from China, but the GDPs are about tied in that case.

By the way Russia's GDP is about the same as Canadas (another country we spend to protect).

We are out of our freaking minds.

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