But honestly, what do you think would happen if the US military were suddenly defunded? Do you think the other countries would be like - good for them! We don't need militaries any more any how and certainly not a single one of us big countries with our current militaries would ever dream of using our forces again the US, even as defenseless as they are right now with all their resources and food and two coastlines and pop music...
39% of GLOBAL military spending is from the USA.
Second place is China -- at 9.5%. Then Russia, at 5.2%.
So, say we cut our current spending in half. Who exactly do you think is going to have the resources to invade? We'll still be devoting about twice as many resources to our military as *all of our enemies combined*. We can cut that spending. By a HELL of a lot. The only thing we'd lose is the ability to randomly invade a bunch of countries in the middle east and africa while we pretend to be the world's nanny.
And shit, we spend more than 4x as much as China, but we're in no rush to invade *them*. 8x as much as Russia, but there's still NOBODY who likes the idea of all-out war there either! We could probably cut far more than half and still be alright.
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