US defense spending

Could the US lower their defense spending? Is it necessary for them to have that high military spending?

it is if you nords want to maintain your welfare states and prevent putin from annexing you.
Personally I would rather my taxes go to liquidate terrorists than be wasted on the poor.

So could they lower it, if the other NATO countries lived up to their requirements, of over 2% of GDP?

Notice how the money on the left only goes towards those countries' own militaries

1. It's not your problem. Why should you care how much we spend on defense?

2. It's not even that much as a percentage of our national budget. Entitlements and debt to pay for them make up a much higher percentage of our budget, and the only people who complain about it are the young people who are getting shafted to pay for their grandparents' retirement.

3. We're not just America's military, we're also in charge of defending Japan and South Korea from Best Korea, keeping Eurofags from getting impaled on Putin's cock and keeping the shipping lanes clear from piracy and privateering.

4. Military tech from R&D gets filtered down to all allied nations. From ships to planes to guns to ammo, anything developed by Americans ends up in the hands of Canadians, Germans, Greeks, etc.

In short, we're carrying your asses, and that's why we spend more than you.

Other Dane here.

I'm a conservative and against the universal welfare hell we have here.
But the U.S's spending on military is huge!
I agree that we should spend more here, since we only spend 1,1% GDP. 2,0+% GDB is very wishful.

You're right.

I'm in favor of closing our 700+ Foreign military bases so those countries develop their own military instead of leeching of us. Japan and Germany should not need our military.

I'm also against foreign aid to all countries.

I wish we would have more money in education like socialized k-12 education.

You have to understand why the US dwarfs other nations in this: we are their military too. The only military forces in NATO actually worth a damn are Britain's and France's but even then they don't compare to ours.

t. British American.

All military spending is a waste of money

And that's why no one fucks with us

When everyone wants what you have, then yeah you need such a large defense budget. If you can't defeat the next several countries combined then they could theoretically ally themselves to destroy you.

>more indoctrination by the academia

Implying they arent doing it already

No he's not right.
I hate the idea that we can't have money to solve our nations problems because socialist paradise lala-land countries like yours leech of our nation for military. Fuck you, get your own military lazy socialist fuck.

Fuck off you hippie

>not realizing US also defends the planet in secret
>2016

See, US won't have any problems if they keep their military spending to a minimum by only keeping their nuclear systems up.

> In short, we're carrying your asses, and that's why we spend more than you.

True in Asia, but in Europe the UK and France alone are enough to check Russia - and we're not especially militarized at the moment. If we went up to 5% spending, which could happen if NATO collapsed, we'd easily outmatch them.

This isn't even counting the support of the rest of the EU, which has a common defense pact which we'll undoubtedly be asked to remain committed to when we officially leave. They're not a real threat to the EU unless they want to start firing nukes, which we also have. The US extends military influence there for their own reasons. Even if it's just to keep the military industrial complex running.

>Is it necessary for them to have that high military spending?

I dunno, do you enjoy having an asshole that's never been sodomized by Russia?

What the fuck is this meme?

Are you guys justifying our country defending socialist welfare colonies because of fucking Russia? Screw them, we need our money for the USA not this commie shit

The US defense budget is bloated by backroom deals and corruption. An audit of the Pentagon revealed $6 trillion went missing off the books.

>academia literally says the opposite

Troll thread guys. Time to jump ship

Dude, academia is sickly marxistic

PPP numbers don't look nearly as screwed. That said, yes, the US spends a lot on defense. Other countries need to spend more. Very few NATO nations are pulling their fair share.

No, the US is NATO

Academia pretends it's an alliance

The britcuck proposed more education spending. I don't know wtf you're talking about.

Pretty sure NATO countries send their stuff to other countries too. Russia is sending stuff to the middle east and Ukraine too.

Go fight in the desert for your precious masters then.

>You have to understand why the US dwarfs other nations in this: we are their military too. The only military forces in NATO actually worth a damn are Britain's and France's but even then they don't compare to ours.

t. British American.

>>more indoctrination by academia


Where? Maybe you responded to the wrong user?

Yah when you folk pick up the slack were tired of protecting you and being berated for doing it.

Fucking berniecuck indoctrination on colleges for an example. Liberal arts etc

They really can't lower military spending. Do you no waht an industrial complex is? It must keep growing and growing. Also I don't know if you noticed but these shitty trade deals and cheap immigrants are stealing our jobs so it is a required welfare program to keep people employed. Plus there's a lot of money to be made by the people at the top in this countries off the wars.

War is a Racket.

But the short answer is no, not without tanking the economy in a serious way and creating social unrest.