U.S. "not prepared for global war," warns congressional commission
By ethanh // 2024-08-02
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Unless the United States government massively increases its already bloated defense budget, the country will remain "not prepared for global war," a congressional commission is warning. The U.S. Commission on the National Defense Strategy released a 132-page report published by the RAND Corporation that calls for a boost to the already nearly $1 trillion yearly defense budget to "Cold War-era levels" in order to "foster an alliance that could lead to global war." The RAND Corporation, by the way, is a defense contractor whose profits increase the more the U.S. government spends on defense, so of course it wants a defense budget boost. "The United States must spend more effectively and efficiently to build the future force, not perpetuate the existing one," the report states. "Additional resources will be necessary." "Congress should pass a supplemental appropriation to begin a multiyear investment in the national security innovation and industrial base." (Related: Russia claims that the U.S. is trying to usher the world into a global nuclear holocaust.)

Report published just months after sixth-year-in-a-row failed independent Pentagon audit – where did that $3 trillion go?

The U.S. military's recruitment problems would be no more, the report further claims, if more U.S. taxpayer dollars were thrown at the defense industry. More cash would also fix the "grossly inadequate" industrial base and the "underfunded cyber and space domains." To really get the message across, the report talks extensively about "threats" from countries like China, Iran, North Korea and Russia that warrant increasing U.S. defense spending by between three and five percent annually above inflation – Cold War-era funding oscillated between 4.9 and 16.9 percent, by comparison. The timing of the report's release is suspicious in that it came just a couple months after the Pentagon failed its annual independent audit for the sixth year in a row. The total amount of missing Pentagon money has now exceeded $3 trillion. "There is potential for near-term war and a potential that we might lose such a conflict," said Eric Edelman, vice chairman of the commission, to a room full of U.S. senators this week. "We are optimized to fight very short wars." Jane Harman, who chairs the commission, further stated at the Aspen Security Forum ahead of the report's release that while "we're very good at fighting the last war," there needs to be a fresh U.S. military spending focus on "cyber, AI, and the amazing change in social media and how people are motivated to act." The right-wing Heritage Foundation seems to agree with the report's findings, having declared the U.S. military as "weak" in its 10th Annual Military Strength Index. Unless more cash is given to the military-industrial complex, the Heritage Foundation believes that the Pentagon will be unable to "defend vital U.S. interests" across the globe. U.S. interests, by the way, mean the interests of the military-industrial complex, not Americans. The interests of Americans are rarely represented by Washington, D.C., which spends U.S. taxpayer cash building a global empire and enriching its leaders. Ever since the Wuhan coronavirus (covid-19) "pandemic," U.S. military recruitment has been in the toilet. A combination of LGBT perversion, fraudulent elections and societal degradation seems to be keeping potential new recruits far, far away from where the deep state wants them. Other factors linked to declining interest in joining the military are poor pay, shoddy and dilapidated housing facilities, physical abuse, skyrocketing rates of suicide and PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder) and the propensity of U.S. leaders to engage in "forever" wars that never end and have no real purpose as far as the betterment of Americans is concerned. Are things headed towards another major world war? Learn more at WWIII.news. Sources for this article include: TheCradle.co NaturalNews.com
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