I would understand increasing military spending if it meant we could go pillage and plunder other countries to our own benefit. I fail to see what we're getting out of it all now, but the GOP establishment constantly talks about the importance in this way.
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The truth is our ICBM's combined with a military of 1/5th the expenditure is surely enough deterrent, all the rest of the spending is a waste.
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And yet these people thing that all this projection of power abroad is somehow good for us? How? I've never figured this out
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It's the military industrial complex that Eisenhower warned us of, imho.... There's alot of money at stake, and its easy for flag-wavers to get enough people on board...
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Why would China spend more if the USA spent less? The conventional wisdom is that nations spend more to keep up with other nations they perceive as a military threat to themselves.
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I think regardless of whether the USA spends at current levels or cut it by 40%, though, the Chinese will continue to bully neighbors relating to territorial claims that are under dispute. Why? Because they can. They know the USA isn't going to war over fishing rights.
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