Can we just... not? I know Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Northrop Grumamn, Raytheon, BAE, L3-Harris, etc. need their blood sacrifices to keep the military-industrial complex growing, but... can we just not? Can we have nuclear, solar, wind, and hydro energy and free healthcare/college? It would cost the same if we just cut the US DOD allocation by like 70%.
Even if we scaled back only 25%, that's still $850B * 0.25 = $212 BILLION to put towards all that stuff.
The US is getting ready to steal that sweet sweet #venezuela oil.
Gunboat "diplomacy" V3.0
Yes they are. I know you probably weren’t referring to this, but it is the opposite of sweet. It’s very heavy crude which is far more costly to extract and refine. SA oil is light and actually deemed “sweet”. Venezuelan oil is dirty, BUT (of more importance) it seems their reserves are the largest in the world. And even if it is crappy, it is oil and we seem hellbent on using every last bit of it. Apparently petrochemical industry profit supersedes the health of the planet and the entirety of its occupants.
*The US Citizen's Largest Warship
That's ours. We own it. And we own any travesty that might unfold because of it.
(I feel like calling it The "Pentagon's" removes our ownership of the whole thing. Yes, I know it's our Pentagon as well, but I feel like it's easy to artificially distance ourselves from this with that language).
Are you under the impression that the US Government and electoral system represents its citizens?
Gotta wonder what just parking all these gas guzzlers on the south side of the Equator is costing us.
Not that it matters, since we have unlimited money for stupid military bullshit. But I'm about to hear a bunch of hawks tell me the US Treasury is out of money and we can't afford Medicaid anymore. I can't help see this next Glorious Christian Invasion of a recalcitrant petro-state as a big hole in my pocket leaking money.
Gotta wonder what just parking all these gas guzzlers on the south side of the Equator is costing us.
This is a really weird criticism in an article about a nuclear-powered carrier.
Even more weird for an article about the vessel parking north of the equator.
Yawn… US military personnel will gladly drop bombs on Venezuela’s innocent citizens. If you are in the military… you're trash.
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