[Disestablishmentarian]

Here is the unspoken bottom line on the BUDGET deal: We need to FIX the MILITARY QUICK ... because it MAY STOP A WAR ... and, if it doesn’t, then we will really need it.

I believe President Trump has prioritized upgrading the military at all costs, because it is an immediate existential need, and he plans to return to the budget issues later. Not everyone will agree with this; but, he is CINC; meaning, HE KNOWS what is likely to transpire in the next few years.

The grand plan is to reverse the decline in American strength.

This is NOT a neocon (i.e., globalist) position. It is an America First position.

Personally, I expect war (hopefully brief, but very devastating) with N.K., a face-off with China in the South China Sea, and possibly leading our allies in the Mideast (including Israel and Saudi Arabia) to forcibly denuclearize Iran. (Such action will be highly dependent on U.S. Reaper drones and many other air, sea and space capabilities.)

We cannot do all this with Obama’s hamstrung, fairy-dust military.

[McGavin999]

I agree with everything you said. Peace through strength is something that was ignored the last decade. We don’t have a lot of time.

[right way right]

Having already expressed disappointment for no wall!
I’m going to throw out a speculation...maybe Trump is planning for war with California and Mexico.
I wonder what the possibility is that war breaks out when we begin to officially build it.
Therefore, not needing money for the wall, we would need it very much for military strength against the Mexican cartels and the invasion force that is already here.
War breaks out, then the American people will ever more strongly demand that wall.
Just stepping out with crazy talk again, I do that.