Attention all US taxpayers! American forces are going to battle to defend the democracy of our key allies. But our boys in blue are gonna need a new aircraft carrier and a couple of F-35s. If you want to help enforce a rules based order, just send the Pentagon your card number, name, expiration dates and those three wacky little digits on the back. But you gotta be quick - Putin and Xi are gearing up to bring about global authoritarianism!
It won't be long before we see late night shopping network infomercials for Lockheed Martin just so they can make a few extra bucks,.
I mean maybe but in my head I was imagining just some dude on the shopping network ranting about China and the Middle East and soliciting donations from people "for da freedumz"
This hog should be automatically enlisted into infantry. Fight the war you advocated for.
101st Chairborn rides again.
Excited for Bidenbros to tell me we'll be out of Taiwan in six days, six weeks, I doubt two months, while Kamala Harris stands on the back of an aircraft carrier announcing that the mission has been accomplished.
7th Fleet transcends jokerfication for me. I wouldn't subject someone else to it even as karmic punishment. There's even a chance they might be sent to a nice base instead of the frontlines.
I'm so sick of posts dripping in condescension. Everyone needs a good smack in the mouth
They definitely speak like someone who has never been smacked in the fucking mouth.... Well, I know one remedy
Also, when regular people say shit like "pops off" and "goes hot" about a war they are champing at the bit for, we should be able to auto enroll them for front line ground troop duty
Well it's obviously what they want, it'd be better if they sorted it out with fisticuffs instead of dragging everyone else into it though
Sorry millennials but “coronavirus” is the only thing “popping off” right now ever hear of it :grillman:
We're on the cusp of a proxy war in the Pacific and all you care about is the 800k Americans killed by COVID, smh.
How many years before the budget crosses 1 trillion $ ? I think definitely this decade
Black ops and other shit might actually drag it over the edge already. Some budgets are classified, other things don't need to be budgeted for because money can be pulled in from alternate sources (drug trades)
There are at least 10 separate pots of money dedicated to fighting wars, preparing for yet more wars, and dealing with the consequences of wars already fought. So the next time a president, a general, a secretary of defense, or a hawkish member of Congress insists that the US military is woefully underfunded, think twice. A careful look at US defense expenditures offers a healthy corrective to such wildly inaccurate claims.
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Base-budget total: $554.1 billion
War-budget total: $173.8 billion
Nuclear-budget total: $24.8 billion
Defense-related-activities total: $9 billion
Veterans Affairs total: $216 billion
Homeland Security total: $69.2 billion
International-affairs total: $51 billion
Intelligence-budget total: $80 billion
Defense share of national debt total: $156.3 billion
Final tally: $1.2542 trillion
Is that the Base Budget or Base + War? The numbers get a bit blurred.
Either way, I routinely see these budgets leave out Homeland, Intelligence, Vet Affairs, and associated Debt-financing costs. With those, its been cracking a trillion/year since the Bush Admin.
They've bugeted individual things for over $1 trillion, but that's over multiple years. I think blurssr is talking about the budget being over $1 trillion within one year
And of [sic] that goes hot
If the US/NATO and Russia begin a hot war in Ukraine, we don't have to worry about Taiwan because all of us will be dead within a year. If as little as 5% of the global nuclear stockpile is launched (and the US + Russia have waaaay more than that), that is enough to exterminate life on earth.
We've come close over stupid shit before, no reason to think it couldn't happen now.
