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Opinion: The Pentagon doesn’t need $886bn. I oppose this bloated defense budget | Bernie Sanders
(www.theguardian.com)
Bernie is correct as usual. ✊
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i would have absolutely agreed before the 2022-02-24
but looking at Russia and China today, the Budget was never so justified since the fall of the Soviet Union
Don't forget the war on terror in-between... we always find reasons to justify our war machines, it's a feature not a bug.
A 'mere' 600 or 700 billion would be enough. Back in the Obama years we were considering a reduction to 'only' 540 billion. :o
Not exactly a surprising position from him.
If you spent $1 million a day since 0AD, you would not have spent $886 billion yet.
Bernie is the man, we need to decrease funding from the military, and focus on our problems in the usa
So, virtue signaling is what this is? Practically the definition of it?