“Do you REALLY THINK we could cut military spending in half, over the past 10 years, and not pay a price for it?”
It’s amazing how little you get for half a trillion per year from our military. What makes you think a full trillion a year would get us any more?
Russia can actually blow stuff up and kill people they think are enemies for far far less than what we spend.
The problem our military has is not budgetary.
I think I have to disagree with you there.
About 30% of the military problem is budget; the other 70% is the simple fact that you can’t lower standards so that QUEERS,LESBIANS, TRANSGENDERED FREAKS, WOMEN WHO CAN’T DO THE JOB, and all the other ALPHABET SOUP protected species can get what they call their “FAIR SHARE” of the promotions.
“It’s amazing how little you get for half a trillion per year from our military. What makes you think a full trillion a year would get us any more?”
It worked in the past. There are certain percentages of military spending relative to GNP. To put it in basic terms, when we get below 3% (1930s, late 1940s, etc.) we find ourselves getting into wars. When we’re above 5% (Cold War, Reagan Buildup, etc.) we are RESPECTED and wind up not even needing to use our military.
We’re now below 3%, AND IT SHOWS with Russia and China on the march. The “peace dividend” only works if ALL SIDES play by its rules. The other sides didn’t, and we didn’t care...and now we’re PAYING THE PRICE.