Why does America spend so much money on the military?

More than the next 8 nations combined.

Necessary?

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We rule the world. And protect it. The 'world police' thing isn't just hubris, it's also flatly required since no one else can clamp down on chaos world wide effectively. The fact that it seems excessive is because it's bought peace. Also - around fully half of it is just wages. It's a lot, but proportionately, its not actually that excessive.

It's one of the few jobs that the government actually should have, might as well do a good job.

American soldiers, paid as much as the next 8 nations combined.

I don't think that's true. There are British and japanese on the list

Because we have to pay for faggy Euro socialism.

>Necessary?

China just stole millions of square miles of international waters.

Yep.

it's really mostly just flexing and a big handout to defense contractors

someones gotta blow up the thirdworlders it may as well be us

Research purposes mostly. Military industrial complex.

>Why does America spend so much money on the military?
Israel

central planners are poor allocators of capital.
In america, we have clueless bureaucrats deciding where to spend billions of dollars. It's madness and very economically destructive.

Conversely, when capital is spread out among millions of Americans, some thinking hard about how to make money with as little as 1000 dollars of capital, an economy thrives and prosperity increases.

I believe you are trying to say that you want to get fucked by military guys, as you are gay for them culturally and sexually

> When your intelligence agency is a walking disaster and every country wants to btfo

define necessary

Go get raped by arabs faggot

kek

you're retardly wrong on the first and correct on the latter

there's no research going into anything since the cold war is over. those $6000 plungers are going into (((their))) pockets

Military Industrial Complex

It's because the right wing are paranoid little chickenshits afraid of their own shadows.
Having a huge military helps them sleep at night and forget their tiny penises.

fear and weakness

You're right. We should have left the Nazi's to their own devices.

Partially to maintain hegemony and partially as a tool for social mobility/elevation. Probably the largest ever, too

I'm in Canada on a business and trip and come up here quite a bit. College is dirt cheap, parks are well-staffed and maintained, and roads are nice (if primitive engineering-wise). I keep thinking this is what it looks like when you delegate your defense to others. It looks great, but it makes them our pets, it's a benefit they get for being soft, for being a pet.

imagine being this retarded and deluded
i bet this guy lives in dixieland or commiefornia

So we have no enemies? It's a friendly world?

Smack dab in the middle presently. But for giggles, sure - Whats wrong with my supposition?

Our country goes to war with other nations for war profiteering, and for interests of Israel. Saudi Arabia cuts off hands of people and funds our enemies yet they are our ally in the middle east only because of economic benefits. I thought we were democracy bringers? hmm

NATO acts like a terrorist organization
ISIS gets health care treatment in Israel, yet somehow Israel is out greatest ally
North Korea is actually stupid enough to make threats to the US, it's propaganda to put an international bank there (even though commies still deserve to get nuked)

Honestly I think you are in service which is why you believe the whole "muriga is bringing freedumbs :-DD" bullshit

North Korea isn't*
shit.

Large landmass that needs protecting

Because we're not going to pay back our debt.

It makes US currency actually worth something.

US has a massive debt and they're allowed this because of the military.

>Why does America spend so much money on the military?
Don't look at total spending. Only an idiot would do that. Look at total spending per GDP by nation. If anything we only overspend slightly to compensate for weak allies in Europe.

To maintain dominance. America rules both the Atlantic and Pacific, its an expensive endeavor as the Brits once discovered. Not to mention the troops, bases and equipment the USA has all over the planet. Cold War 2.0 is already underway with China, and to a lessor extent Russia. The military spending also serves the purpose of keeping millions of Americans employed, not just in the military but weapons manufacturers and all the surrounding services make it a big part of the US economy. Economically and culturally, domestic and internationally the USA needs its military.

SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED

to be fair, it has brought about peace, even though the USA meddles and starts wars in other countries. If the USA didnt exist there would for sure be more wars because no one would have a super power like us to be afraid of. More nukes would probably have been used by now if we didnt exist.

1.Countries pay us to put bases in their countries
2.paid by countries and corporations to protect the world's lanes of commerce from nigger pirates
3. Large military props up the petrodollar
4.american companies make bucket loads on military contracts
5.Pax Americana
6.Nationalist Pride
7.Absoulutely incredible hedgemony. Sphere of influence encapsulates 2/3 of world.
8.Nationalist pride

this quote is literally fake - google it.

stop posting bullshit

Yup! Your statement and mine are not mutually exclusive. The question was about why does the US spend so much on their military - My answer is valid. While yours is tangential, it isn't completely wrong.

Power does a lot of things. Plenty of good, and plenty of bad. We haven't had an industrial-scale war since WW2. Piracy and military action world wide is lower than its ever been. And maintaining that power compels a lot of people in ivory towers to do totally evil shit they should burn for.

Complicated world's a bitch.

Because other countries literally beg USA for protection you historically illiterate dipshit

What one thing people forget is the money is stimulative. You can spend money on other things but everything military related has to be spent within the states.

Tiny penis syndrome.

Well if you're so concerned, we can always start by cutting off (((Our Greatest Ally))).

JEWS NEED AIRCRAFT CARRIERS

this

>people tell me that China and Russia are threats to our way of life
>then turn around and tell me that we need to cut down military spending because we don't need it
FUCKING WHICH IS IT ARE THE RUSKIES AND SLANTS GONNA KILL US OR IS THE WORLD ONE BIG HAPPY FAMILY

Who else is going to provide our security? Europe? Don’t make me laugh.

Also no one wants to pull their weight. America is forced to carry a trash globalist team.
youtube.com/watch?v=7R5A0pg4oN8

Pretty much this.

Gibs for the military industrial complex.

You can be sure that when Trump had the audacity to question the trillion plus wasted on the wreck that is the F-35, he soon got put in his place behind the scenes.

Do you want to live in a world where the Chinese military is deployed all over the world filling a power vacuum left by ours?

Where China dictates who and what goes where and when?

That's exactly what will happen when or if US military power declines.

China is already building naval bases abroad and investing in expanding their air force.

us

It's only 16% of the GDP
Also our allies are weak as fuck
Anyways, fuck off you fucking hippie

Lmfao, yeah it's totally for "world peace" (flashnews, we don't have world peace even remotely) and not hegemonic domination and resource/energy pillaging.

>niggers don't use resources
>Euros even try to show them these resources
>they STILL don't use them
>"May as well take them"
>"WTF why are you pillaging?!"

Compared to literally the entirety of human history, we have more peace than can be adequately described with language. Nothing is perfect, nor will it ever be. The current situation isn't bad enough to make me feel strongly one way or the other. America's actions suck on many an occasion, and do an incredible amount of good more often. I'm not a super-patriot, and I'm not deluded about the harms caused. Nuance and centrism is a bitch, but its the only pragmatic choice.

It's to protect our freedom.