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I'll connect this to my post on
https://democraticunderground.com/100218192404

These issues are not isolated.

Post #16:

The US spends more on its military than the NEXT TEN COUNTRIES COMBINED.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_military_expenditures

As a percentage of global military expenditure, the US is number one at 39%. Countries 2 through 11 total out at 38%. China, #2, spends 13% of the global total - 1/3 of what the US spends.

What exactly are we defending against, and for whom?

We're told to imagine that these other countries are a threat to our security. Personally, I think we have FAR greater domestic threats than any of these other countries, like Mux, Zuckerthing, Koch and ilk.

For example, the people who crippled our response to covid cost three times as many US lives as were lost in WWII (a total of 429,000). The US leads the world in total covid mortality and is near the top in deaths per capita. Richest country in history, eh?
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries

It was Facebook illegally collaborating with Cambridge Analytica that threw the electoral college to Trump in 2016.

Does China send US sheriffs to evict US renters? Does Russia seize people's homes for medical debt? Does India give 98 year old newspaper owners heart attacks in illegal police raids?

We need to take a closer look at what "security" means.