In Austria, an ex-coworker told me "america invented the war for resources." ATM, I'm talking to a guy in /r/austria that says "The US most definitely invented the modern concept of perpetual warfare. As a nation that is sustaining itself on murder and destruction, the US is pretty unique."
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