Historically certain countries around the world boosted their imperialistic ambitions and colonialism by accelerating and inflating their armies budgets, invariably it was always called defense spending, their very offensive armies and strategies are generally called defense forces.
The U.S. is nowadays a leading example of these policies, in competition only with Israel, both countries have systematically through there history made it a top priority to sanctify their defense armies, troops, and defense departments to degrees whereby any hint of questioning or auditing or criticizing is tantamount to high treason, a crime in itself, even suggesting some justified limits or drawing a ceiling are big no no, liable of destroying a political career, and labeling anyone of being anti defense, and not supporting the troops, destroying the country and being a traitor.
In America the political-military-industrial alliance has developed a system to perpetually increase the money flow, and eliminate any type of meaningful auditing or even checking. President Eisenhower warned the nation of the military industrial complex, and the permanent armament industries, always leading to permanent war economy. Thus always creating permanent enemies.
Since WW2, the U.S. as with our dear ally Israel, have been continually involved in one war or intervention or some other form of military adventure, Korea, Vietnam, Yugoslavia, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Yemen and Syria are all only the most obvious, and now preparing for some new ones with Venezuela, Cuba and of course Iran.
The U.S. regularly maintains over 800 military installations and full bases across the globe, maned by hundreds of thousands of soldiers and private contractors. all these permanent warfare spots, are backed by fraudulent claims of imminent dangers, attacks and threats to the country and our national security.
In the past few years, CEOs of the top 5 military contractors, earned an average of 20 million $ each annually, their armies of lobbyists and retired active generals and senior military personnel, make similar earnings with every successful sale to the military and the war machine. The U.S. defense spending is truly out of control, current immediate budget for the Defense Department exceeds the one trillion $. 750 billions for the Pentagon, new equipment as in advanced and sometimes failed aircraft,huge and sometimes ineffective battle ships, sophisticated missiles etc... etc... are exceeding the 250 billion$ mark. Intelligence agencies serving mostly the military outlook plus home land security take a further 150 billion $, the veteran administration and more so after our great adventures, currently uses 200 billion$.
Our last 5 presidents and their administrations including the Trump close advisers, have all kept on increasing defense budgets and armament expenses, every adventure of recent times add few trillions to our over 20 trillions national debt. and no system of audit could penetrate the walls of Pentagon or related agencies. Our major competitors maintain one military installation each round the world, China has one at the horn of Africa, and Russia only very recently acquired air and naval facilities in Syria. Our nuclear arsenal with its treaties that we keep popping in and out of, producing and maintaining them cost American taxpayers over 6 trillion $.
If the U.S. opt to decrease all these expenses and budgets, by a mere 15 to 20 %, and we will still be spending on defense as much as the world combined, we could save ourselves roughly 400 billions $ annually, solving most of our social and economic ugly realities. Unemployment, medical care, social security, education crises, homelessness, gun violence, suicide and drug addiction. plus that it could lead to fixing the enormous faults in wealth distribution and taxation, and our chronic capitalist greed.
We are deliberately, intentionally and willingly pushing the country to a total economical and monetary collapse, we laughed loudly when we thought we imploded the Soviet Union with our armament race back in the eighties, well !! we are doing the same to ourselves now, and we have only ourselves to blame for our continued blindness .
As always my many thanks to all .
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