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    2 months ago

    How did we ever come to think that we could?

    Because it was easy, is my uneducated guess. The US is, despite all the nonsense, a nearly unfathomably rich natural fortress with the strongest military in the world. If they’ll give you free (or “free”) stuff there’s not much reason in the moment not to take it.