China’s .gov operation is a cesspool of waste and corruption—hardly a standard we want to meet.
I would bet 90% of our defense budget is pork, waste, theft and obsolete or just plain dumb weapon systems—and that does not count the insane wokeness that crushes morale and readiness.
We are getting played.
No doubt at all that gov. wastes a lot, lot of money, both by unnecessary purchases and choosing over priced items, and lack of maintenance, as well as in social welfare programs. Whether China is worse is unknown, while corruption in Russia is. But the US military also has moral corruption, and the Left has made it somewhat Woke, while 70% of US youth are unfit/ineligible to serve.
However, the issue is, what would happen is the US retreated from is bases that deter China, and let it take over the S. China sea, and expand outward as well as South, East and North. And let N. Korea invade S. Korea. And leave the Middle East to Islam?
In any case, the years of a nation at war with God assures its demise.