Why is the American military spending so high? No country on the planet can or wants to invade you...

Why is the American military spending so high? No country on the planet can or wants to invade you. You could literally cut your military budget in half without any worries.

> not percent of GDP

Anyway to answer your bait, you have to remember that at every level the military I hate Americans it's cannot contract work out. The companies that Supply materials overwhelmingly are owned by Americans and operate in America using all American-made precursors.

That shit is expensive.

That's it.

our crooked politicians funnel money to defense companies

thats why they dont care that we defend japan, korea, germany, uk, ect

they dont care that many NATO members dont spend 2% of GDP like agreed upon

because they are crooks

>Why is the American military spending so high? No country on the planet can or wants to invade you.

Sounds like it's working.

because we defend the security of the western world. we spend so you don't have to, spurdo

>why is american military spending so high
>no country can invade you

Fuck you, I see your plan. Trick us into weakening ourselves and then attack. No thank you.

Because we fund your shitty eurocuck militaries.

Peace through preparedness.

>No country on the planet can or wants to invade you
attacking the United States is unthinkable because of the high military spending

We pay for your fucking NATO you ungrateful Mongoloid snow niggers. Go get raped by the big Russian cock you subhumans.

It's because the vast majority of our military are welfare queens

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I can't wait to back out of NATO so you cucks have to pay for that shit yourself

We are in charge of your defense as well pretty much.

>expecting more than basic observations from Euros

Because america doesnt protect its borders its occupied 90% of the planet.

USA's technological edge over the rest of the planet is a direct result of such spending, though I imagine it is also inflated by shady projects and overbilling.

That's true too desu

>This Finnish son of bitch is Destroying the US using one simple post!

Because we have to make up for a whole bunch of fucking freeloaders
pay fucking debts
no 2% no Article 5

Uhh, because we have literally been footing the bill for Europe's defense for the last 70 years. You are welcome you ungrateful faggot.

The only reason scandinavian countries can afford socialism now is because we protected you from communism.

Also this.

>Source: Ive worked acquisitions for the military

contractors over price everything. cut inside deals with government workers offering them cushy jobs after they retire ( why lockheed martin has so many contracts).

a common tactic for contractors (as seen with the f-35) is to just do enough development and require additional investment from the gov to then trap them in a deal. such that the developement is too far along to stop and too much money has been invested to pull out.

most of its on other countries.

im sick of this shit if we spend this much protecting the world you fuckers better be grateful

>tfw america keeps the world from collapsing

we'd fucking love to. you guys offering to help out with policing the world? oh wait, i forgot that virtually none of you have a military capable of doing that because you spent all your money on immigrants and gibsmedats.

Because when something bad happens you come crying to us.
They say America has no culture, but it's kinda of hard when were out defending everyone else's.
Maybe if you weren't a cuck and could defend yourself you wouldn't have to post this bait. Faggot.

To protect the rest of the free world so you can eat fancy cheese, wear berets, and brag like little faggots about your "free" healthcare.

Because we pick up the slack for all NATO and Pacific allies.. it's crazy. And the USA doesn't get paid the agreed amount by most.

Black ops. Gotta scout out the universe in the secret space program before we announce it to the public.

>Low information: The image macro

You're either terribly uneducated, or lying on purpose.

>He thinks Finland is france

This is how you maintain your empire you retards.

Back in the days, UK had a military fleet twice as large as the two next biggest fleets combined.

Now the US maintain military spendings twice as large as the two next countries combined.

They probably spend $10000 on a toilet seat

>Frank is Cuck
>India is Cuck
>UK is smart enough to know they can ask us for help whenever and we'll do it
>Japan we protect post WW2, both of us signed treaties so Japan has a much much smaller standing army.
>Saudia Arabia is going to get blown the fuck out once Trump comes in.

Him and Puttin aren't going to say shit, its just going to be a massive fucking air strike starting at night and not ending for days.

At the end of it we're going to erect a monument of 9/11 right in the center of their fucking capital and shit on all their palaces.

>what are nukes

You are using your military only for offence , you will never ever use the military for defence unless your nukes dissapear somewhere by magic

It's necessary. Most of the spending is on upkeep and payroll anyway. I wish more of that money went to actual R&D.

But overall, if we're gonna be the world's police, we need to spend heavily on defense and offense.

We want to stay a superpower, we need to defend ourselves as such.

Because they're not spending for defense only. They're spending for force projection. They wouldn't be the world's superpower without this spending. The money is also recycled into their own economy through the defense industry - which is undoubtedly corrupt.

We defend our island and our crown dependencies ourselves thanks.

>Why is the world police spending so much on military

If not for the USA's global reach, other wannabe superpower countries will keep pulling shit like Georgia, Ukraine, or nuclear arms development

Because the military industrial complex is located in the US. There are so many factories and office buildings that are paid for by the military budget. If any congressman ever voted against military spending then their opponent in the next election would say "This congressman wanted to kill these military jobs in our district AND they wanted to let the terrorist boogeyman win."

We spend so much on military because nobody will be buddies with us unless we enter a military alliance with them and babysit their military and fight their wars for them. NATO, UN, etc.

>you have to remember that at every level the military I hate Americans it's cannot contract work
what did he mean by this?

>saudi arabia

what


what the fuk

what are they defending

It's so Finland can spend its tax dollars for gibmedats to refugees

He's not doing us burgers any favors :(

Because it benefits us to be a superpower. We tip the scales in our favor and maintain control over the world economy.

Why am I not surprised that the nation who played the role of useful idiot throughout the conflicts of the early 20th century has no knowledge of conventional strategy in the nuclear age?

she is such a qt

The euros need their welfare

Iran, Lybia, Syria and Israel have all historically been hostile with Saudi Arabia and they've had territorial oil disputes. Their exaggerated spending might just be the royals ego tripping a bit though.

We protect almost every other country in the world....

It creates world order, faglord.

Who protects the trade routes?

We do.

We stops people from invading your shitty countries?

We do.

You should thank us for our spending.

Trump wants to cease aid to all our "Allies" who are falling their financial commitments.

You are the reason we have to spend so much.

Thanks asshole.

The reason is because european countries don't pay their fair share into NATO and that is a massive chunk of the cost of our military. We need to completely dissolve NATO, Pull out all of our troops from europe and take back our missile defense shields, europe is not worth saving and they deserve to cleansed in the ashes

>No country on the planet can or wants to invade you
Yeah, because of that military.

Military and a court system are the two most important areas of public spending. Fuck anyone who says gibsmedat for Laquisha and her 5 niglets are more important than national security

A casual glance at history shows it's almost never a bad idea for a nation state to have a powerful military.

>Who protects the trade routes?

keeping the pirates at bay are we?

face it you only fight third world countries, you could do with the same total spending as China or even Russia. they can both more than enough fuck up the kind of countries you keep going to war with.

any real danger to US safety is deterred with your nuclear arsenal.

>all these butthurt burgers
lmao
you are literally protected by two oceans and nobody has the capability to attack you, you are literally defending jews stealing your tax money to rule the world instead of making your lives better

Because we keep you sorry goys from being cucked by the Russians

Finland /is/ France to us, you insignificant little ant.

(((((Embarrassed by Americans))))) = Pussy leftist faggot

Makes sense, otherwise the next two could team up and take you down

>you are literally protected by two oceans

No, YOU are literally protected from US by two oceans, and it isn't enough

off my cold dead hands!

We don't need nukes to lay waste to any single country in the world.

We can meddle in fucking everything because who would fight back?

Military active duty here. Most of that money is going to my pocket once I'm out - at least 40% of that money goes directly to soldier wages and benefits.

America defends Europe. The American military is the military of the western world.

It's because the American government is compromized and is wasting money so shitty centre-left states in Europe don't have to spend money on a military.

Trump is ending this, by the way, and then you're fucked.

Russia can meddle everywhere too.

It's because of nukes not the size of your fucking military.

You did nothing to them in Georgia or Ukraine and they did nothing to you wherever you went.

Face it you don't need to spend more than the next seven countries combined to beat Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya.

1. We provide security for almost the entire world.
2. Our R&D isn't over the top. In fact, we should be spending more. We should spend less on 1.
3. High wages, high cost of certain goods and services. Our defense spending is inflated when compared to many countries like China and Russia because people and things cost more in America.

The US military is basically a big welfare program.

$20 dollar screwdrivers $10 dollar screws. $15 bars of soap. $337 million F35C Stealth fighter that can't fight

Fuck I don't know why are military is spending so much

Ask yourself, why don't they want to invade us? Think long and hard about it.

do people realize how absolutely fucking huge america is

seriously france is on that fucking chart, do you understand how small france is compared to literally any single state inside of the US

Why does iceland even need a military?

To protect the world from Chiner
Thanks Ameribros

>You could literally cut your military budget in half without any worries.

You clearly don't understand the role of the US military in sustaining the contemporary world order.

In case greenland gets drunk and invades

The single biggest item in the US defense budget is: interest on debt from prior wars - $500 billion/yr.

That's right. wars we are not even fighting anymore. The debt is from money borrowed from the Fed to fight those wars. The annual half-trillion is just interest on that debt.

So there ya go.

jill stein already said that, nobody listened

fucking dumbass americans man

>No country on the planet can or wants to invade you
Russia.
China.
Those are the two biggest threats at the moment.

There are lots of other countries that would love to invade America, but can't.

>Enemies of the United states at some point, and India

with so many countries targeting us, it's pretty obvious.

Apologize

Costs a lot to rule the sea and sky bud

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Go fight with Sweden and Russia, we'll back off and stop playing babysitter for a bit so they can control you again.

That was for the whole aircraft toilet.
An illiterate "journalist" lied to have an interesting story.
1980s clickbait, before there were clicks.

Same for the $1000 wrench. It was a special titanium alloy torque wrench, not a drop forged crescent wrench.

They are invading us, one anchor at a time.

Because you Europoors depend on US military defense in case you are attacked.

At least you have extra funding to provide food and housing to refugees.

It used to be higher, like the next 13 countries combined. It will keep getting smaller, as China gets richer and Russia spends more on defense
>Soon: Why does USA spend more money on defense than the next 3 countries combined?

>What is counter-technology?

Basically, USA has to spend so much so that they can ensure that they stay on top of military technology.

Only one group in the world rivals the US in tech and that is the Israeli hacking operations. Look up "Stuxnet" to find out just how crazy they are.

Force projection.

Those trade routes ain't gonna keep themselves open, and how else do you think we're able to have a full carrier group loaded with humanitarian supplies show up to a disaster area within 24 hours?

I don't think an American operation that the Israeli's fucked up after they were allowed to be in on counts. All signs point to Obama letting the Israeli's plan for electronic warfare with us against Iran in order to prevent them from preemptively attacking Iran. They promptly blew the mission (well, part of it).

Obviousness is obviously obvious.

Score man. I was thinking the same thing...plus the world is our bitch.

honestly too many companys here rely on war to make a living. thats why its so high.

sigh... .

I want to repeat that we do not spend enough on R&D and procurement. We spend way to much on just keeping our huge military running, which we have to do because our allies suck. Trump is one of the few politicians to actually get things right. Liberals love to lie and bitch about procurement to make our military weaker. We should and could have a much more technologically advanced military across the board if we didn't have such shitty allies.

It happens. It's money laundering for black projects.

just this: >anglojews feeding master jews with shekels

nothing new desu

>Why is the American military spending so high?

its literally propaganda and corruption

remember: dog that bark dont bite. americans are fats with big toys thats all

Because the "defense" force is actually an offense force.

This is a map of our military bases around the world, excluding the thousands in the homeland.

If you didn't realize, it costs a lot of money to maintain them, alongside our other big explosive toys.

Perhaps we wouldn't need to spend as much if Europe would actually get the balls to defend itself, though at this point and time, it's really too much to ask, isn't it?

forgot pic

We probably could stand to cut the budget somewhat. We spend way too fucking much money on conventional warfare. What we really need to focus more on is to prepare for the next stage of war: network and biological warfare.

>No country on the planet can or wants to invade you
Duh, cuz we've spent the most on defense

thats why we win everything

>somehow changes the map into an australian shitpost
foiled by mods again