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War  ·  2910 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Deeply Moving Message from Bernie Sanders - YouTube

We spent four times what China spent last year on military, or another way to put it is we spent more than the next 12 countries on the list combined.





user-inactivated  ·  2909 days ago  ·  link  ·  

And of the top five countries on those lists, we are first, then two of our allies, then China, then another ally. Of the top 15, all but two are NATO or SEATO countries.

$13 Billion for a super aircraft carrier that has no real defense against ballistic missile attack, and the only two global enemies we have, China and Russia, have well developed missile techs.