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Well is the defence budget not the highest percentage spending of the GDP and more than combined of all 10 other top spendings? And military industrial complex
by bettercallsalad 3y ago
Well is the defence budget not the highest percentage spending of the GDP and more than combined of all 10 other top spendings? And military industrial complex is a reality, not just a cynical rhetoric going back to Eisenhower. Oh and the three letter agencies and their mindless spying on average citizen. I think in many ways average citizen not being aware of many of these dysfunctional realities is a far worse case than citizens of places where they know who runs the show.
- AnimalMuppet 3y ago"Military state" does not mean "spends a lot on the military". It means that the military controls decisions (either overtly or covertly). That's not the case for the US, no matter how big the military budget is.
- JumpCrisscross 3y ago> not the case for the US, no matter how big the military budget is If anything, the U.S. military's budget having to plop production in every Congressional district speaks to who needs whom to get that money.