This is what active military serving near Iran get to eat. Is he having door dash granny deliver it?

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    Ironic that the debate is about Iran while the real story is in the tray. US defense budget is bumped up to 1.5 Trillion and yet that’s the return on investment for the people actually doing the deployments.

    Separately worth noting, between institutional investors and billionaire land grabs, the US has lost over 40 million acres of farmland to non-farming ownership in the last decade. These two things are connected: when capital extraction is the priority, everything else, soldiers, food supply, communities, gets the leftovers.

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      Capital extraction is just one aspect. However, one can get a lot of money from transit oriented development just as well. The problem is, that it is in many places plain illegal to develop in such a way and car oriented development is heavily encoraged by regulatiry means and heavy subsidies. There is also a lack in expertise on all levels, in comoanies but also among authorities, in doin stuff any other way than car-only suburbia.