The following article from the UK Guardian (the one guarding the Queen) attempts to subtly diffuse the uproar over American military spending in a very sophisticated way. It starts out comparing the US military budget (whose accuracy I seriously doubt i.e. likely a lot bigger than presented). Then it proceeds to compare military spending of various countries as a proportion of GDP, demonstrating that Myanmar leads the way with 25% of its GDP devoted to military spending, dwarfing Americas 4% (NOTE: This is because the US GDP is over 15 trillion, thus 607$ billion of this (ITS ACTUALLY WAY MORE THAN THIS THOUGH WHAT A LIE!!!!!!) is roughly 4%. Myanmar polices its own country, as the US polices everyone else that's but one fundamental difference.
So what is the Guardian really attempting to do here? It would appear to be a rationalization of the US spending over twice as much on "defense" as Africa owes to the global banker infestation.
They conclude on this note:
"So is the US an "aggressive, war-mongering military machine" obsessed with spending on defense and plumping up its armed forces? Perhaps, the numbers say, not."
I actually appreciate that they would put this all in perspective but indeed it is painfully misleading.
Here is what they are trying not to say: If you are from a rich enough country it wont cost your plutocrats a significant portion of your GDP to police the rest of the world, and thus you are not an "aggressive, war-mongering military machine"!!! THAT'S IT! THAT'S ALL SON!!! Never mind the article has the word "beautiful: in the title!!!
Awe... the US of Israel spends so little of their massive wealth on weapons, how civilized, all countries should trim down to 4% to make Americas job easier!!!
They also add:
"First of all, the enormity of the US military budget is not just down to a powerful military-industrial complex. America is a rich country.
In fact, it's vastly rich. So its budget is bound to dwarf the others."
Never mind the fact that they are in debt 12 trillion dollars (conservatively) and couldn't engineer a technologically obsolescent product if they wanted too!!!


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