Returning to the pre-Endless War on Terror spending level would mean about a $300 billion cut rather than the usual $30 billion increase. But the budgets of recent years far exceed any other point in the past, including the Reagan years, including the Vietnam years, and including the Korea years. In those terms, the high point was reached when Barack Obama was in the White House. military spending over the years (available data goes back to 1949), adjusted for inflation and using 2020 dollars for every year. The favorite topic of the “news” generated by weapons-funded stink tanks and former Pentagon employees and military media is inflation. military spending is coming soon, and the question of whether to increase or decrease the military budget has already been pre-decided: “Democrats will be forced to either back Biden’s blueprint or - as they did last year - ladle on billions more in military spending.” Biden’s blueprint is for yet another big increase, at least in dollar figures. Other countries are boosting their so-called “defense spending,” but nothing whatsoever is happening in the United States, although there was that little $40 billion gift of “aid” to Ukraine recently.īut in weapons-company-advertisement-space outlet Politico, another big boost in U.S. government itself, which spends more than the next 10 countries combined, 8 of those 10 being U.S. And both had success, although neither has come anywhere close to boosting NATO in the way that Russia has.īut getting other countries even to double their military spending is pocket change. But both advanced the identical demand of NATO members: buy more weapons. minds, President Trump was anti-NATO and President Biden pro-NATO. Other times, its a commitment to NATO that’s discussed by weapons-buying governments.
The Prime Minister of Japan, for example, has promised Joe Biden that Japan will spend a lot more. In many cases, when nations increase their military spending, it’s understood as fulfilling a commitment to the U.S. Some nations get wars, others profit from wars. In most years no nations with wars present are weapons dealers. The only overlap between significant weapons dealing and where wars are present is in Ukraine and Russia - two countries impacted by a war widely recognized as outside the norm and meriting serious media coverage of the victims. Second place in international weapons dealing, held by Russia for the previous seven years, was taken over in 2021 by France. The top seven countries account for 84% of weapons exports. weapons exports exceed those of the next five leading weapons-dealing countries.
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But search for the secret code words “defense spending” and the headlines look like a united global community of nations each doing its important bit to enrich the merchants of death. residents solving their personal problems the way their government does. Do a web search for “weapons buying” and you’ll find story after story about U.S. Spain, Thailand, Germany, Japan, Netherlands - The word has gone out that every government can buy a lot more weapons with either no debate at all or with all debate shut down by a single word: Russia.
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