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Any dollar the US puts towards defence is more likely to go to some arms manufacturer's CEO's kid's second masarati than it is to military preparedness. Any sane country is looking at what Ukraine is doing or Iran was doing until recently when looking to develop an actually effective military doctrine and not a graft machine.
and this is exactly how Russia became a paper tiger...
Yes, that’s obvious, but unfortunately nothing will change until U.S. citizens put a stop to it. This is, sadly, a fact that no one else can change—precisely because of the utterly absurd amounts of money the U.S. spends annually on this farce. In this way, the billionaires ensure that the U.S. cannot be defeated militarily, even if the rest of the world were to rise up—in which case, the deranged US billionaires who rule this country would make sure that humanity goes down with them.
Therefore, the only ones who can change this are U.S. citizens, by putting a stop to this madness and finally holding the greedy minority that is making their lives a living hell accountable.