I know we need the military for defense and we do have five major armed forces. But when it comes down to billions and trillions of dollars, I'm lost. It's like our overall spending. Who determines these numbers?

Certainly not cancer.

It is there for the Police State to protect and expand the interests of our lovely oligarchs and their global kleptocracy aims.

Defending us against an imaginary aggressor so we can practice socialism for defense industry….

Defending us from “entitlement” mentality ala Joe Manchin!

The spending is not meant to make the military more formidable or effective. It's designed to be expensive so that people can get rich off of it. The Pentagon is mostly privatized.

just what we need....another military base.

Against russians under every bed 🤡

Reality.