It is ironic that the US waste more money on violence and destruction than the other nine richest countries combined even as they praise the USSR for allegedly resolving the Cold War by being “more Neo-Liberal” than the Pax Americana. Pax Americana could justify the neglect of poverty and plutocracy with their claim that poverty and wealth inequality are self-inflicted, but they at least need to explain why they resolve dispute with violence instead of their Liberal principle of mutual cooperation for mutual interest. Pax Americana at least need to stop complaining about violence if they believ that violence is the only method for peace.
US might declare war on all other NATO members if they leave the bloc.
Most readable pie chart. This should’ve been a bar graph
What’s missing from this is that the USA amount is just corruption. The productive value is less than the European amount. Take away C-level compensation from all values and what would the chart look like?
Europe is the same corrupted, or possibly even more. Germany can’t seem to have working military no matter how much money they pour on it, UK is one big shitshow witn monthly huge scandals, France barely managed to supress its tiniest colony, Poland armed forces are in complete shambles and it had like one single possibly successful arms contract in decades.
All that is way too much to ascribe it to mere incompetence, not everywhere on that scale.
Crtitical support the the german MIC in keeping us effectively demilitarized.
I’m actually not sure that the situation in Europe is much better. I’ve seen Europeans arms production described as artisanal because it’s done in small batches by a whole bunch of different companies, and there’s pretty much no standardization in place.
That points to inefficiency, incompetence. It’s not enough to get to USA levels of poor-value. I haven’t seen evidence of the same scale of MIC corruption in European NATO countries.
For sure, I imagine the MIC in the US is more corrupt just because the scale of it is so much bigger.
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