This is pretty absurd when framed this way. As a long time critic of military spending, at least I would call it. A plus that most of that spending is receipts

This is pretty absurd when framed this way. As a long time critic of military spending, at least I would call it. A plus that most of that spending is receipts to some other US business no matter how regressive those transfers may be. But once it can be arbitraged by international capital, and leeching of foreign governments who can't control their own spending becomes a business we have hit full insanity.