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Originally Posted by Lothar5150
From a pure business perspective it is far more reliable to bribe and woo a well established well organized dictatorship. Their is far less risk involve. War is always uncertain.
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True, but sometimes the established government prefers to do business with your main competitor nations and because that choice may be largely ideological, or tied to all sorts of affiliations, nothing can be done to change that. Except changing the government.
Sometimes the government we have been happily wooing and bribing suddenly changes its loyalties (to wit: Saddam Hussein) and a change of government is again called for.
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This completely ignores the fact that political will is required for ANY democracy to win a war. That political will comes from the people and the people could care less about business interests. For the people to sacrifice their sons, daughters, bothers, and sisters etc...It has to be for more than money.
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And THAT, my friend, is why we have propaganda! WMD, anyone?
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If you want to fly when every you want, you buy or lease an airplane, not an airline.
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Semantics. The idea remains the same.