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The Pentagon doesn’t need $886bn. I oppose this bloated defense budget | Bernie Sanders(www.theguardian.com)

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sculd@beehaw.org
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Well, if the US doesn’t need to protect their allies in Europe, Pacific, South China Sea, support Ukraine against invasion, prepare for invasion against Taiwan…Yeah, then it doesn’t need that money. But we live in this world.

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Yes, but also no, imo. We absolutely need to accomplish those objectives.

But … Do we need to have a system that requires us to buy Tomahawk missiles at whatever cost Raytheon decides to charge? All the weapons we use are supplied by a single company, and the military does not own the IP for their weapons, even the ones initially invented by military research bases (e.g., sidewinder).

Our system of military contractors has, imo, failed us utterly while making a handful of companies incredibly rich

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Oh I definitely agree on that part. Even the F35 is a super bloated project. The US use to have multiple competitors for each weapon categories but industry consolidation (monopoly) made everything worse.

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