It’s defending corrupt politicians (GOP and Dem) against corporations withholding kickbacks & bribes. The American people deserve government leaders that back policies that they need (#M4A, #GND, expanded voting rights, reversing Citizens United) not a bunch of craven sycophants

Ever since WWII, the US military assumption is to fight on two fronts. But then the military industrial complex took over

One thing it is not defending us from is domestic terrorists.

It is protecting us against our losing world hegemony.

Better question is where did it go ? Rumsfeld couldn’t account for $2.3 tril in transactions on 9/10/01 and that sweltered to $6.5 tril by 2015. Why aren’t people more enraged about this kinda shit ?

It is not a “defense budget” when it is primarily used for offensive acts all across the world: overthrowing democratically elected leaders, placing warships off the coast of other nations, bombing children & families who had neither wherewithal nor desire to attack us, on and on

difficult to prove a negative but America & its allies have not suffered a direct attack in 20 years. hard to put a dollar figure on that but it seems to be quite valuable. also the industry provides tens of thousands of high-paying jobs with taxable incomes. tell your friend.

It's called defense but it's actually offense - only when it's labelled properly would we know why 😆 It's offensive spending designed to march over others' territories.

A small percentage of us think NATO is an anachronism. Time to bring everyone home. Have the world's best military, but right here. Easily save $100 billion.

It's certainly making the climate catastrophe worse. We should spend three times that just to offset its damage. The damage wreaked just by the US military alone, that is.