Budget Day is coming! How will the Pentagon waste money this year?

[Nevilledog]

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May 27 is Budget Day, when the Pentagon will unveil its plan to spend billions of dollars on weapons systems that have failed to defeat any adversary over the past 20 years and will likely prove just as useless in a war against China.

In December 2001 – just months after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks – Congress appropriated $318 billion for the Defense Department. Now President Joe Biden’s administration is expected to ask Congress for $715 billion to fund the military next fiscal year, which begins in October.

Wow! If defense spending has increased by 125% over the past two decades, we must have wiped all of our enemies off the planet!

What’s that you say? The Taliban is poised to overrun Afghanistan; Al Qaeda operates in far more countries now than it did in 2001; the Islamic State terrorist group has survived as an insurgency; China has more ships than the U.S. Navy?

In the words of Smedley Butler: War is a racket.

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[Midnight Writer]

1. At least our Missile Defense Shield has rendered us impervious to missile attacks.

(Oops, forgot how to make the sarcasm thingy)

And our F-35 squadron makes our enemies tremble in fear.