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I genuinely don't believe this for a second. The war machine is making so much money on this that the cash won't stop flowing. This is just an excuse to cut funding for a public program.
It’s not only about money, it’s about productive and logistical limits which have been reached. All the money in the world isn’t going to make more 152 mm Soviet artillery shells appear from thin air for Ukraine, who needs millions per month to keep up with Russia.
There’s a finite limit to the amount of war production the US can do in the short term, and it has heavily deindustrialized domestically so supply lines rely on imports from China and other countries
While this is true, I fully expect them to just keep throwing money at the "problem" in the hopes that will fix it. Just another quick 200 billion, no biggie. Oh wait, here's another 70 billion! And so on, forever, even if not a single artillery shell gets built with that money, gotta prop up the MIC!
This is just the MIC asking for more money, as per usual. If they were actually running out of money, they wouldn't be giving press conferences.
reminds of of blowback podcast where mccarthy says he was being overrun when things were fine, and things were fine when it was hitting the fan
Pffffff. We had wars in Iraq and Afghanistan for HOW LONG?
Those were low intensity occupations for the most part. Ukraine is a peer level conflict and America needs to back Israel enough to deter Iran, which makes formidible drones and has hypersonic missiles.
America doesn't need to do anything outside its borders.
Did Iraq or Afghanistan require millions of artillery shells per month and thousands of tanks and tens of thousands of drones?
Just an average $300 million per day. I guess that's nothing to you.
it would be funny if we funded puppet governments like we do public goods like childcare assistance programs, nutrition assistance , social workers in public achools, etc. like instead of giving any money to either, the feds create a block grant program and all our little client states have to submit a proposal with budget and timeline of deliverables to compete for those funds.
a committee decides what groups receive funds that are only released quarterly contingent as reports are submitted and reviewed. and everything is always hanging by a thread, so much effort is spent looking for new grants and submitting glowing reports, instead of.. you know.. doing the thing.