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Or the US could roll back the defense budget 50% ($350 thousand million), and still be quite well-'protected' or 'secure'. (Perhaps less able to de-stabilize ex

Or the US could roll back the defense budget 50% ($350 thousand million), and still be quite well-'protected' or 'secure'. (Perhaps less able to de-stabilize existing regimes in our favor.)

vuln 3y ago
We’ll have to spend a trillion or so first to restock and buy new, since we sent all our stuff over seas. Then we can reduce spending 50%, promise.
- mc32 3y ago
  It is the other giant sucking sound syphoning from the treasury instead of syphoning jobs away.