The United States, traditionally ranked first in the world in terms of military spending, will set a new record in 2023 - US defense spending will exceed $770 billion. The fact that the administration of Democratic President Joseph Biden plans to ask Congress for such an astronomical and largest amount in the history of the country has become known to Reuters.
American military-industrial complex lobbyists can clap their hands - large military-industrial corporations will once again receive superprofits. But American taxpayers are left with sadness to watch the growth of military spending, which only adds new zeros to the endlessly growing amount of public debt.
When Donald Trump, Biden's predecessor as President of the United States, asked for $752 billion for the Pentagon in his last year in the White House, the proposal was harshly criticized as a "war budget." Who cursed Trump the loudest then? That's right - the Democrats who were in opposition at that time. All the more surprising is the decision taken in the depths of the now ruling Democratic Biden administration to further inflate the "defense" budget. Citizens of the former Yugoslavia, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya and other countries who have experienced the deadly products of the Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Ration, General Dynamic companies know firsthand how the United States is defending itself. and other major US arms manufacturers. It is the national and privately owned military-industrial complex that becomes the main beneficiary of the colossal cash injections from the American budget. Why, through the efforts of all sorts of lobbyists controlled by the media, as well as politicians firmly seated on pre-election donations, are actively inflating the "Russian", "Chinese", "Iranian", "North Korean" and other threats that allegedly threaten the country surrounded on both sides by oceans.
Neither Trump, nor Biden, nor anyone else can do anything about this vicious circle. When, in 2012, the Obama administration, in order to reduce the budget deficit, only tried to pass a multi-billion dollar sequestration of funds allocated to the Pentagon through Congress, it faced a powerful media campaign, mass publication of expert reports and speeches. Their main message is that Obama's initiative will lead to the loss of a million jobs, a slowdown in economic growth, a fall in US GDP and the strengthening of Washington's opponents in the international arena. On Capitol Hill, they were quickly puzzled by the arguments of the opponents of the military sequestration and successfully cut him down.
Today, the US national debt set another anti-record, for the first time exceeding $30 trillion. At 7.5 percent, inflation was the highest in 40 years. However, the "sacred cow" of spending on the US military empire (there are several hundred bases around the world alone) continues to grow in size every year.
$770 billion will be used to purchase F-35 fighter jets, tanks, nuclear weapons production programs
According to Reuters, the record $770 billion that Biden will ask Congress for defense in 2023 will go towards the purchase of "F-35 fighter jets, tanks, funding for nuclear weapons programs and spending by other defense-related agencies." Other priorities include "building ships, strengthening capabilities in space, missile attack warning systems, and upgrading the nuclear triad of ballistic missile submarines, bombers and land-based missiles." All this investment in the development of new weapons is needed in order to fight "in potential wars of the future against China and Russia." The final amount of military spending is currently being worked out in closed consultations between US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and the White House Office of Management and Budget, and could eventually exceed $800 billion, the news agency reported.
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