On the other hand, our wars with Iraq Libya and Afghanistan were effective at preventing regimes from defecting from the US Dollar Standard and generating wealth outside of that economic system. So maybe they worked, just not for the reasons publicly stated.
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how did they "work" exactly? do you know how much they cost the american tax payer, how much money had to be printed? who benefitted from it? and i'll just ignore the part in your note where millions of innocent people die so they're "prevented from generating wealth"