• The Snark Urge@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    What will happen to the US defense budget now that we know it’s unnecessary?

    That was rhetorical by the way, I know it’s going to increase.

    • Stumblinbear@pawb.social
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      1 year ago

      Not sure about “unnecessary.” 5% works for Ukraine but also it has a much smaller land mass. You can’t use that 5% to protect the entirety of the US’ borders along with every other place we are stationed along with the required ongoing maintenance

      I’m not saying the budget isn’t ridiculously high, but also saying it’s unnecessary as a whole is just incorrect

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      1 year ago

      Right now, the main talking point driving it up is China, not Ukraine.

      Which may not even happen. China has some financial problems both short (real estate crisis) and long (one-child policies causing a population crunch with lots of old people and few young people). It’s thought that they need to invade Taiwan in the next 8 years if they’re going to do it at all, but that window may already be closing.

      Not that any of that ever got in the way of building an even bigger navy.

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        1 year ago

        Unfortunately, great powers that have recently peaked and are beginning their inevitable decline are at their most dangerous. It’s when they’re still powerful but feel a need to prove it. See the Soviets in the 80s, USA in the 2000s, China in the 2020s-30s.