If THEY don't know, how are we supposed to even begin? Congress has periodically tasked the DoD to present auditable financials since at least 1987. 20 years later, they still had to wait for appropriations before they felt confident buying anything significant.

to protect us from this guy 👇🏽👇🏽

To sustain jobs in the defense industry while pursuing the increasingly unrealistic goal of global domination

Power vs force. Empire vs empower. War is a competing, it is a game played with thousands of lives while politicians win votes. So if course it cost money. And some of that money is for bribes and blackmail, we play the game with force and gorilla tactics.

Weapons and war. And propagandizing the US into thinking that those are necessary.

So they can get over charged on everything.

To support the Military/Industrial Complex that Eisenhower warned

They must up budget every year whether they need it or not.

Actually, no one knows where all those billions are funneled!