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Here Comes the Next 'Defense' Shakedown

• http://original.antiwar.com, by Thomas Knapp

Is Trump truly under the mistaken impression that US military might is ailing? Or is he mindlessly aping Ronald Reagan and hoping it brings in the re-election votes? Or perhaps something else entirely?

The NDAA budgets nearly $700 billion for the US military next year. Despite its name, there's precious little "defense" involved.

While it's true that the United States is involved in several ongoing wars ($65.7 billion of the NDAA's appropriations go to the "Overseas Contingency Fund" for continuing those wars), none of them serve any vital, let alone existential, US interest, and none of them are defensive in nature.


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