[TheRealThing]

Exactly. Also, like I mentioned before, getting out of the war in Afghan opens up alot of that money for other things, and some of it to go towards ongoing special ops missions around the world that are very, very effective, but 90% aren't ever even heard about.

This topic isn't my best, but when it comes to military spending, I know my shit, because I've seen so much of it. And what I've seen probably isn't even 0.5%, and that is absolutely mind-blowing to me.

Well, this is largely the reason the USSR collapsed under it's own weight in 1991. Socialism simply could not provide the funding necessary to make the Soviet Union to run. The socialism experiment didn't work for Russia, and it won't work for anybody else either. None the less, we are constrained to maintain the type of military budget we have always had if we want to stay free. Like or not, it doesn't matter. Freedom = a kickbutt military force.