55% - that’s what most highly productive Americans pay in total extortions from the gov’t every year. Since I own a small manufacturing business the total gov’t extortions represent about 400% of my personal spending, but that’s way too complex to explain here.
Forced to speak mandarin - LOL there you go again with those 19th C. paranoid delusions. Time to Join the 21st century. To repeat - conquest ain‘t a winning proposition and hasn’t been for over a century. The perfumed princes in the E corridor of the pentagram and the wackos in sandland still haven‘t gotten the memo; but the rest of the world has.
Like DJT said ‚We squandered $6 trillion and only made things worse‘
squander is correct.
Sure, yeah, there's been a lot of stupid waste. Usually because of interservice competition and because the Pentagon managers are Ivy-league civilian political appointees with zero concept of how combat works (or find the bathroom without help). Then you have the members of Congress who have to divvy things up for their districts - and they usually haven't spent my time in uniform, either.
Lastly, we have General Officers who have very little technical expertise (most Marine generals were Physical Education or Political Science majors in college)and get swayed by fast-talking defense contractors...etc.,etc.
Never said it was efficient or perfect.
Did say that it was necessary, though. The Chinese - and the Russians - and the Islamists DO want to take over and send us all to perdition. What's kept them in place is a belief that it will be too painful to try.
That's why we have to keep working at full tilt to guarantee they keep that sense of awe. Saves a lot of unnecessary killing.