Open this link. It’s Flightradar24, and is filtered for government aircraft only. A very large percentage are military aircraft. I cannot imagine the cost of this, and it is an every day occurrence. Not saying it’s good or bad, but that’s a lot of money. Check Europe and see how many of the aircraft are U.S. military.
https://www.flightradar24.com/35.51,-97.34/5
A pet peeve of mine is when people say the US is the richest country in the world.
NOTHING could be further from the truth!
we are actually a POOREST country in the world. Our national debt is 36 trillion.
Anyone who thinks we are rich also believes those who live McMansions and drive fancy cars but are drowning in debt are rich.
I would like to see a detailed apples to apples comparison.
I doubt that each country has the exact same way of counting defense spending and what is included in that category.
Cut ours by 2/3 because of waste.
It also is high because our soldiers are not conscripts and get semi-decent pay.
From the chart, it looks like you could add the defense budgets of the top 10 countries and it would not even be equal to the USA’s.
And depending upon which source one might choose, we spend around 2-3 times our Defense budget on Social Security and Medicaid to our citizens. So while our defense budget is huge, is is dwarfed by direct social spending. Anybody have info showing otherwise?