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Hegseth Is Demanding US Households Pay $5,000 More Per Year to Fund the Pentagon, Economist Says
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The same pentagon that they want to merge with the Israeli military?
They want to give them even more money under the guise of “security.” Israel has captured the legislature. They will soon control the Pentagon.
They're hardly alone. It's been an absolute feeding frenzy of corporate leeches sucking the US Treasury dry ever since Nixon, Ford, Carter, and Reagan began privatizing every state function they could get their hands on.
The joke of Hegseth's budget request is that it won't actually procure more hardware. He's putting in bids against a cartel that can just raise the prices, even as it forgets how to build the things we're buying. This, even as new entrants to the Pentagon feeding frenzy simply fail to deliver promised material
Defense watchdog finds new 155mm artillery plant failed to produce parts in 2 years since it was built, hindering production goals
Western Firms Are Stiffing Ukraine on Military Equipment Contracts
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says defense giants are 'failing the American people' by falling behind on orders
It's something of a joke that Israelis don't even want the weapons we send them. They just want the money, so they can buy from their own contractors.
Soon? Buddy that's been captured.
Israel has had the US gov in its pocket since the nation was created post-world war 2.
That would make sense. The US military may not want to drop live ammo on US citizens. So the Israeli military could step in and do it for them.
If the US allowed foreign soldiers to invade and kill American citizens I think we'd have a military coup.
No joke that might actually do it, Americans have never responded well to non-Americans killing Americans. We only let Americans kill Americans at home
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