05-13-2023, 01:59 PM
(05-12-2023, 08:53 PM)SunsetBengal Wrote:
There's a reason that our military budget is astronomical, and that reason is because the US is "expected" to be the protectors of the free world. We are now in a period where the armed forces are struggling and in some instances failing to meet recruiting numbers. We live in a country so comfortable that our young are not willing to sign up to defend, that is a warning signal. That in itself isn't the barometer of failure that I'm leaning toward as much as our youth are more caught up in social issues that they no longer care about being a part of keeping those rights to do so sovereign.
Your failure to recognize that the US is currently in a parallel situation as Rome under the rule of Caligula, is just baffling to me.
Eh no. The reason the defense budget is so bloated is because the US is paying so many weapons developers WAY too much money for R&D, which of course yields results that the companies make the US pay a massive premium for.
It's basically the same reason hospitals charge $50 for some basic ass Tylenol; if the person paying you gives you a blank check, you might as well milk it.
