His opinion is worth considering.
Posted on 12/18/2022 6:49:39 AM PST by Salman
WASHINGTON — The prospect of growing military threats from both China and Russia is driving bipartisan support for a surge in Pentagon spending, setting up another potential boom for weapons makers that is likely to extend beyond the war in Ukraine.
Congress is on track in the coming week to give final approval to a national military budget for the current fiscal year that is expected to reach approximately $858 billion — or $45 billion above what President Biden had requested.
If approved at this level, the Pentagon budget will have grown at 4.3 percent per year over the last two years — even after inflation — compared with an average of less than 1 percent a year in real dollars between 2015 and 2021, according to an analysis by Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments for The New York Times.
Spending on procurement would rise sharply next year, including a 55 percent jump in Army funding to buy new missiles and a 47 percent jump for the Navy’s weapons purchases.
On Friday, Jake Sullivan, Mr. Biden’s national security adviser, put the buildup in strategic terms, saying the war in Ukraine had exposed shortfalls in the nation’s military industrial base that needed to be addressed to ensure the United States is “able to support Ukraine and to be able to deal with contingencies elsewhere in the world.”
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I'm coming around to the point of view that the USA should be disarmed and broken up like the Austro-Hungarian Empire after the First World War.
The founders did not approve large standing armies for good reason.
And yet we are still being invaded on our southern border.
How about Russia, that started the war with an invasion of Ukraine, should be broken up so that it forever stays within its borders?
Making war makes money for the criminal politicians an their donor friends
The RATS’ way of apologizing to the “assault weapons manufacturers” that they trash and sue the hell out of every electoon. Face it. The RATS love those who manufacture “assault weapons”. Without them, they wouldn’t have any public school “mass shooting” rubber chickens to beat their GOP opponents with around erection (sp) time.
“…It’s a “war for markets”, but instead of the market being some colonial dependency, it’s war itself that is the market. Certainly nothing to do with freedom, here or anywhere….”
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Absolutely, war is the market. WAR HAS BECOME THE OPIATE OF THE MASSES. They’ve become mesmerized by the pounding of the war drums along with the simultaneous chants of RUSSIA, RUSSIA, RUSSIA.
Biden supports Ukraine, they are his personal money laundering machine. Ukraine must be destroyed because Biden supports them.
The Cheney and Bush families are very happy that the military industrial complex is alive and well. Their bank accounts will explode.
Due to Russian invasion of Ukraine, international orders have exploded.
Poland moves to buy HIMARS, capping major May modernization push
Poland will seek as many as 500 HIMARS launchers, as well as moving forward with its Patriot program, according to the Ministry of Defense.
https://breakingdefense.com/2022/06/poland-moves-to-buy-himars-capping-major-may-modernization-push/
Biden supports Ukraine, they are his personal money laundering machine. Ukraine must be destroyed because Biden supports them.
Simply butting out would be sufficient.
Spend money, support sexual weirdos, and have the brass live in DC mansions with heated floors. Who could object?
How will corrupt stupid sons of Washington's elites make enough money to 'live large' without places like Ukraine? Answer that FAI.
It’s sickening. I never thought I would be so against military spending, but our military isn’t protecting America. It’s all about forcibly confiscating American tax dollars, borrowing and printing endless amounts of money to destroy our economy while murdering people for military industrial profits with a nice fat percentage kicked back as campaign/PAC donations so the most abject losers can maintain their power in Congress. (Excuse the run on sentence. At least I didn’t swear.)
That’s none of our damn business.
Its not just the USA.
Japan, which has the the world’s third biggest defense budget (after the USA and China), just passed their biggest ever - a significant percentage acceleration from past growth rates. Germany had a huge increase. Forget about Poland - they are totally off the hook. It is happening all over the free world.
Bottom Line: The threat of aggression by autocracies like Russia, China and Iran has grown. Their intent is clear, and their capabilities must be countered.
More fake news from the New York Times abetted by the poster and all those who fall for the myth of the military/industrial complex.
This budget, as the last several were, are not supporting our war fighting capabilities against increasingly powerful existential threats like China and a nuclear Russia.
Much of this Biden budget is going to woke politics and green policies, not for equipment and training.
With this proposed budget, the Navy will have an aging fleet in numbers like those pre-WWII.
The Army can’t recruit enough manpower and has strategy focused on now past wars against terrorism.
The Air Force is smaller than the Army Air Corps just after Pearl Harbor.
We cannot support and are retreating from our forward positions in the Western Pacific, where the next war is about to begin.
We just surrendered to a bunch of seventh century nomads and surrendered to them $80 billion of military hardware, equal to 10% of the current budget.
Excluding the brave, patriotic 0.3% who wear the uniform (and aren’t transgender or affirmative actioned) we have the “Worstest Generation” pool of manpower, 70% of whom can’t qualify for military service.
And you people are worried about the military/industrial complex?
That is as self-destructive and naive as the liberals who clamored for the same. The reason for the the Left now supporting fighting dictator Putin is mainly because he, while evil himself, is competition for dominion, not being a team player which Ukraine is recruited to be.
Disarming and breaking up the US would result in world chaos as China and Russia as well as Islamic states taking over to fill the gaps.
Of course, the Left is actually fostering this by its imposed Wokist transformation of the US military, and increasing the natl. debt, resulting in a dictatorship.
Its over. Time for evangelical Christians to have the faith mentality of the first century believers who had even worse civil leaders.
“WASHINGTON — The prospect of growing military threats from both China and Russia is driving bipartisan support for a surge in Pentagon spending”
Is it that or we need to replace all the weapon systems Benedict Biden gave to his son’s creditors in Ukraine.
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