European Reacts to How Much America's Military Costs
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✔️ European Reacts to Why the US Military Costs so Much - Reaction For the First Time
F-35's initial cost overruns in development are already resulting in significant decreases in cost for production runs. They cut $23 million in cost per plane by doing refinement early on. They a very close to meeting/exceeding almost all of the goals for cost and capability set forth by command. Far from perfect, but very close now.
You forget when trump became president. He told them if it didnt get it closer to 100 per he might cut numbers back significantly. In 2 days they found 12 mil they could cut right away. Pretty boss move.
Yup new build F35s are already cheaper than any new build western 4th Gen fighter.
Yeah. Basically every time we try to cut back... someone attacks us, or something. Every-single-time.
The French and Brits cut theirs way back in the 1920s and 30s. By 1939, they were really regretting that decision.
We were attacked in Pearl Harbor, and then 60 years later on 9/11/2001. What else are you referring to,? There must have been attacks on the US that I've missed since world War 2. Anything before World Was 2 isn't really relevant at this point.
@@bobprivate8575the US also. In the early 30’s our military was smaller than Portugal’s.
@@BLUEYENKO ...that oft-quoted stat is misleading, as it only counts the Army, at 118,000 men and completely ignores the other branches. In 1935, the US Navy was larger by number of ships than it is today, and had 80% of today's tonnage of ships.
Yeah .. how ironic 🙄
When I was in the Army, I learned that one of the US military’s largest expenses is training. I’m not talking about boot camp, I’m talking about field exercises. We spend more time “in the field” in one month than most countries do in one year.
Tbh it wouldn't be so bad if career politicians own 4 Mansions and never had a actual business or anything. Like the current POTUS,Nancy pelosi, people like that. We were warned about the military industrial complex. Insider trading is rampant in politics. That's what global warming is.
Those nukes in Turkey are pointed at one place. Definitely not towards Portugal
Pointed WAY more North than to the West lol
They could be if needed.
@danjames-ud7nr no need Turkish nukes have one specific strategy. Portugal has a BIG ocean next to it. Sometimes nukes just pop out of the water lol
@@menwithven8114 Those pesky ocean nukes lol.
@danjames-ud7nr Just imagine how many submarines we have in the Atlantic! Well and the Pacific
when I was in the Army, there was a hammer hanging on the wall in a frame. it had written on the plaque that the special hammer was needed to fix one part (had to be hammered into place by the specially made rubber hammer so that it wasn't damaged while installing it to a $18 Million machine). this 'special' hammer had cost the department $985!!! and it could only be bought through the Army who bought it from a military contractor who built parts for the machine.... I learned later that mechanics have a very similar rubber hammer that you can buy for $14.....
part of the massive budget is the fact that the military has special contracts that require them to buy specifically from that contractor who greatly mark up the price, even though they could get it cheaper from somewhere else....
Sigh...people are so gullible. No, the military is not paying $985 for a hammer, they are paying $14 for that hammer like everyone else, and the remaining $971 is siphoned off into some secret project they don't want on the books, or goes into someones pocket.
Yes, you’re correct. He mentioned the F-35 cost overruns, but since so many allied nations have purchased it that extra expense has mostly been compensated for. The military industrial complex is a big machine, and people love to complain about it, but they’re usually the people whose safety relies upon what that complex has built. Love your videos bro, keep up the good work!
I saw terror in your eyes as you were imagining an army of backflipping bipedal robots attacking Europe.
every successful program the US has worked on had major flaws in the beginning
the secret is we are trying to build the future, while the rest of the world is asking us to give them what we built 10 years ago :)
By Europe he means Russia and Belarus basically.
imo . . . the American spirit of ingenuity and drive to achieve the impossible is our greatest strength. Our military forces are a prime example of that.
Not enough competition to produce quality products.
Also we love Portugal - I was just there for the first time. Beautiful! Cheers from America 🇺🇸🇵🇹
I agree with you Andre! Thank you! I love my country as well, no matter what goes on! America always comes back! America stay strong! Keep making more Planes, weapons, Tech, etc! Stay ahead of the game America! Come on, you can do it! Great video Andre! Thanks!
This is why I like your channel, I always learn something. Something entertaining and light or something historic. I especially like learning something that I thought I knew and didn't. I also like to learn your take on things I take for granted and it reminds me to be grateful everyday.
The AliExpress version of the B2. I love it. Thank you Andre.
In simplest of terms the U.S. taxpayer , i.e. ME, pays to protect the entire world. We use your countries as either foreign bases or access and supply routes for bases or economic interests. If we allow your supply routes to get taken or occupied then we lose capabilites abroad. We can't let you protect something so important so in reality it's by necessity that we are essentially the police for the world. We love you and want nothing but the best for your countries and countrymen so we do what we need to for humanity.
This is something that many Americans just don't understand. Without the US protecting sea routes, for example, the US can't get consumer goods that its citizens want. Its just basic math.
You Pay to Protect You.
NATO is similar to a Homeowner in the USA borrowing money to own land….You may put $5000 down to own a home You buy from a builder at a cost of $100,000…..on Credit.
Instead of Borrowing to Build a home, they Borrow to buy Weapons from Private defense companies in the usa.
Everyone Borrows on credit to keep the corporate machines churning in USA lol.
War-Machine
I’ve never been to Europe, but I would love to go to many places there as a brick block and stonemason, I would love to visit there Scotland, Ireland, Germany, England. The architecture is so beautiful.
I subscribed, I love your show and your great at this.
The Aliexpress comment was subtle but funny ash
There are several factors that are not obvious. For example, the US has over a thousand bases around the world. Many of them have little military importance, what they really are is back door foreign aid. Congress doesn't like foreign aid; it's not a vote getter. But if you build a base, you contact with local companies, are the soldiers are spending their paychecks there, foreign aid accomplished. The same goes for regions of the US itself; build our expand a base, and you pump money into the congressional district there, making the congressman very popular. Weapons manufacture is the same... Most of the money allocated to help Ukraine is actually spent in the US, because our factories are building the weapons- again, making the congressmen around the factories very popular.
The U.S. government will never let anyone know everything about the military 's equipment.
As an American, I will say there is so much waste in our military spending, he said Lockheed is profiting a billion dollars a month, that is our tax dollars which could be going into our communities. Politicians are lining their pockets from these lobbyists who are getting paid by these companies, so basically they are paid with our tax dollars. And its being fed to us as we have to pass the budget to pay our military, if thats the case they should all be millionaires, but in reality most sevice members make very little in comparison
The video reviewed is very well produced. And about as subtle as a brick to the head.
Yeah, cost over-runs are a thing, and sometimes it takes a while to figure out the problems. Look at the Osprey. A disaster. At first. And second. And many disasters more.
And look at it now.
I, personally, don't like the F-35. Too many compromises in the three versions.
And I think Navy & Marine jets should have two.
But it's the best there is.
To misquote, "Damn the expenses! Full speed ahead!
This wasn't exactly a detailed analysis of the American Defense Industrial Base. There's a reason why Pentagon spending is only 3% of total world research spending now, it's not because the pentagon is spending less on research, it's because organizations not called the U.S. Military are spending more on research. Your point is also very valid, and actually ties into what wasn't said in this video. The Arms exportation market is critical to the American DIB, and America's defense budget. It's not just the obvious of paying jobs in America, it's also additional scale to drop prices.
Lack of scale is how you get the B-2 which costs 2.1 BILLION per aircraft. R&D is a fixed expense, so more scale means more chances to collect the necessary money to cover R&D Costs. Scale also affects production rates, as does the complexity of the aircraft. We no longer live in the age of mechanical flight. Also, the wrong message was passed about Eisenhower's warning of the Industrial Military Complex. As Eisenhower himself understood the necessity. His warning was part a warning about opportunity cost, and part warning about the corrupting potential of war profiteering.
I have a very close friend that is an senior design engineer at Raytheon. I don't ask.
USA gives Credit Cards to Countries to Buy Raytheon (its the american way)….
Its no different than a US citizen Buying a $100,000 home with only $$5,000 down payment.
Go to google maps, look up Herlong, CA, then look just north of the town where you'll see a bunch of lines, start zooming in on the lines.
And that's just ONE depot for one branch.
We have 450 F 35's, but have made 900 of them, half were sold to NATO, Israel and Japan.
F16's and F15's have been produced in the thousands, 6,000 F16's alone.
But the DoD finally got smart. All new systems are mandated to have open systems. The F35 can use any new radar from the best and cheapest contractors. The engines can be replaced by any engine manufacturer who makes the best in class engine... And the lead contractor has to put it into their newly manufactured planes.
And now... The NGAD, the next generation air dominance plane was built in a year.
And the B-21 Raider came in under time, and under budget. And they get the best upgrades no matter who makes them... And the first demonstrators... Planes made to demonstrate the idea of the 6th Gen planes, were converted to actual combat planes because they were so capable.
So the US DoD has cracked the contract abuse problem for good.
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"I know China made the Aliexpress version of that." 😂😂
What's not listed in his video are the true hundreds of companies that support the military. From GM, Ford Cisco, you name it a lot of them are paid handsomely for what they contribute. Its not that most Americans do not support the cost of the military they just have grief with the accountability of the spending and how there are very few if any audits on where the money is and how much is actually wasted. With such a massive budget there is no question of waste and miss appropriations to a degree that would trump national military budgets for most countries.
China made alli ezpress version lol im laughing so hard because its so true
Our military spending is the primary reason we do not have public heath care, affordable higher education, failing infrastructure, failing schools, and generally a stinking middleclass and more and more working poor and homelessness.
Yes the F-35 can't be seen by radar and when the see them on radar while launching a missel, the can 't lock on them.
Wow André didn’t comment on how many US military facilities in Portugal when the world map was colored in. Looks like a tad more than we have in Spain but way less than in Italy and Germany.
Oof, Andre saying the LCS design is great…knowing what the narrator is likely to say about that abortion of a ship class.
We used to have way more competition among way more defense contractors and a much larger Defense Indistrial Base (DIB). It dramatically atrophied after the end of the Cold War when we alll thought great power competition was over. Many companies folded as defense budgets shrank. Others were consolidated / merged. It really hamstrings us now that Russia is literally at war in Europe and China looms as an industrial behemoth with a very high chance of a Sino-American war over Taiwan. This guy touches on that but doesn’t note that (1) his chart ignores inflation and (2) most of the spending for the war on terror was on asymmetric threats and counter insurgency NOT great power competition and the need to deter (and Gid forbid, if necessary, defeat) Moscow and especially Beijing.
As for your question at 17:30 the answer is yes we do sell weapons to others for example Israel is a buyer we don't donate to isreal they pay us upfront for said weapons and ammo where as Ukrainians trade resources for them watch the video on the military boneyard
I was in the USAF in Incirlik Turkey and at 3:42 I lived with my family in the "American" suburbs and north to the flightline is where I worked.
I don’t agree with him he is correct on some issues. Yes the cost and time to market and the failures of engineering is ridiculous, but that’s a systemic problem with corporations. They no longer care about research and development or their employees or even their company’s long term. The major stockholders and CEO only care about getting fabulously wealthy and if the only way they can achieve that is by driving the company into the ground they don’t care
I see by your comments that you have never worked in the aerospace industry.
It is well known in America that our allies are not very good at paying us back for the military equipment ect. However at the same time both the contracted companies that make everything and the military industrial complex for the most part have no transparency when it comes to inventory audits or financial audits. No accountability what so every. They all make so much money they are able to get away with it. No matter how many times those things are requested.
If you like this video, check out US Military Massive Global Transportation System by this same channel. It's a good video that gives you an idea of the scale of the military.
I wish I could give this comment 50k likes!
When he said the things about nukes being used in Europe he was talking about against Russia
Im a veteran so ill answer your question, we sell stuff yes but not enough to pay anywhere for new things so it would take selling 5 aircraft carriers to buy one bew aurcraft carrier
I'm just gonna ad another "you wanna find out why we don't have universal healthcare?" meme joke
You're joking about the basketball court but the navy actually did do that before.
Did'nt you know aliens give us alien tech to build what we Have =) lmao j/k
ruclips.net/video/10Qd6pD6sYU/видео.html The US Army wanted to replace the M-16 with a more accurate rifle, they paid out the ass for R&D, and found out, Hey an M-16 with a SCOPE is pretty dang accurate. How about we get rid of the carrying handle, put a rail for mounting cool stuff on it, and call it the M-4.
See the newer things get the better the past proves itself
We give our friend countries our weapons because we don’t want bad countries to hurt our allied friends such as Europe.
The brand name "Freedom's Choice" covers just about every and any food product in any US grocery store. I worked at a creamery in Wisconsin that makes really great cottage cheese (#1 at the World Cheese Championships in fact.). We make the "Freedom's Choice" Brand.
17:46 yes we arm our friends.
Yes, the US sells new and used military equipment to allies. However, there are some very advanced items that the US won't sell to anyone.
Like the F-22.
@@TheRagratus Except now it's looked back on as a mixed decision. The F-35's success proves that if you do support the export market, you can get the scale necessary to really drop prices.
There's also a black budget, and the top secret stuff they don't make public.
This is a great point and deserves more attention
and Space Force. I don’t know if that is public or within the Air Force or what
That's what they want you to think. Check out a show, called the "x Files"
The part of the political landscape with the military. When it comes to giving other countries weapons. One is we can test new gear. Two we can let countries like Russia that a bigger threat to us then small countries waste there money and man power fight countries like Ukraine so it Benefits countries like Russia get weaker and Ukraine pays the price all we did is send the surplus out of date weapons. Three we learn how to trainsport weapons and surplus to that area so in the future if we have to fight there we already have a plan to get there quickly and efficient as possible. Four after the war if Ukraine wins we can have a thumb on there Government to make trade deal that benefit us. Along with the economy depends on war is the reason usa government is always part of every conflict
Fun fact I have learned since russia invaded Ukraine, a Russian did not invent Sputnik, It was a Ukrainian! When Stalin took over Ukraine, he threw a Ukrainian man in the Gulag, when Stalin learned he was an engineer and was working on space exploration, Stalin pulled him out and put him to work on what would become Sputnik.
Yes that is a joint fighter.
Corruption is in every country... congress members investing in the military contractors is one example
We Americans are glad that you "don't mind we spend this much money on our defense." Is this because Portugal is one of those habitual defense under-spenders. Portugal spends less than 1.5% of the NATO-recommended 2% of their budget on defense. To paraphrase President Trump, if they don't pay their bill then we won't defend them, let Putin have his way with them. Watch out Portugal
18:09 You are correct, our military does sell used ships and other hardware to our allies - bringing in some money. Maybe he'll talk about it going forward but it's probably a drop in the bucket compared to what is spent. A few minutes before this point, the narrator mentioned the the contractors can sell items to other nations with Congress' consent. Meaning, if you hear India is buying 50 F-15s from the US, they're actually buying from those contractors with the permission of the government. So none of that money goes back to our treasury. It goes toward the other portion of those pie charts he showed from the contractors.
On a personal level from a citizen - I think most of us would prefer not to have our military all over the world protecting the majority from a minority of trouble makers. We also do not support all these proxy wars around the world that we're involved in - most of which we don't even know about. Just that money alone could take care of every veteran for the rest of their lives. I wish the world wouldn't judge the citizens for the actions of the gov't. Our only involvement is the enormous taxes we're forced to pay to fund this behemoth and the votes we cast, which may or may not even be counted.
Do you understand that the defense budget is a very small drop in the bucket of the entire government budget?
@@georgedykes5533 I wouldn't call 13.3% a drop in the bucket, but you can call it whatever you like.
What did you say about Iceland? “They have veekins and ?” They have 3 helicopters and two planes lol. There private citizens that have more than that🤷♂️🤣
Russia (west part) is in Europe also
In 2017 thru 2020 the Military budget was over 700 billion a year. I have never been in the military, but I want to be able to protect against all threats.
F35 is considered the best plane AND the biggest boondoggle in history. life is full of contradictions.
You gotta read the titles and actually comprehend it before you look dumb. And our Allies barely spend on military contracts so that doesn't work.
Logistics Baby .......... More difficult than war
We are friends as long as you're not hiding oil from us or we must bring democracy (eagle scream) to you
Most Americans are tired of paying for this military. How about you Europeans start shouldering some of the burden instead of making fun of Americans for not having universal healthcare
It would probably only take a few states to defeat the whole world not joking.
Defense spending is even the biggest item . Project FY 2024 defense spending is $1.3 Trillion- which is 99.9% Federal spending. Combined Federal, state and local spending on healthcare $2.3 Trillion (MEDICARE, MEDICAID, CHIPS, VA, PHS etc. 70% Federal, 30% state and local)
, Education $1.5 Trillion (90% state and local). Total combined federal, state and local spending projected to be $10.5 trillion for FY 2024
The contract awards are competitive bid. Some companies in expensive states have higher costs making it more difficult to win Contracts. No Contracts, no revenue. However, DoD doesn't like to rely on a single source of supply, so it will award Contracts to retain other suppliers. In this business, when a supplier goes under, all the knowledge goes with them.
We have been defending free trade, and the whole world banking system would collapse if we backed off in any region. American tax payers have been footing that bill.
My father snagged a job at the company Hughes Aircraft Company which grew into Lockheed Martin. When he started working, he came home very happy but he didn’t talk about it. He just encouraged me to keep working on computer programming.
I think what he's hinting at is, the way the contracts are awarded inadvertently incentvise "cost overruns."
yah we sell weapons and other things to other country's
You should do video showing all the nuclear bomb test in the 50s and 60s there were thousands even exploding one in space, also Tsar bomba idks biggest nuclear bomb of course it was idiot Russians 50 megatons
It's better when you find out that congressmen have advanced knowledge on stocks so that they can buy or sell their stocks before anyone else. . Lots of lobbyists in DC where companies give Congressmen money to push agendas but don't worry its not corruption since it has a different name Lobbying. Wars or the perception of incoming wars make people rich. Afghanistan and Iraq are good examples for the US. Johnny Harris made a video talking about just a small list of people who got rich from the US Afghanistan conflict
And now it's Lithium mines and refineries. See who bought stock in the mines and factories before making it a law to go all electric in the name of saving the environment.
during the recent economic collapses in the US, many US congressmen sold their stocks before the initial crash. I believe it fell out of the news cycle very fast too.
Yes and no, some people got very rich off the Iraq and Afghanistan war but it was actually a small list like you said. Even the MIC didn't do so hot, a lot of big projects like the F22, or zumwalt got cancelled or cut short because of the shift to counter terrorism activities. This also happened to several artillery and tank programs. This lost the MIC a ton of money since you make way more making big ticket items like the F22, B2 or Zumwalt than small counter terrorism equipment. The Iraq war was specially damaging. Those wars were bad ideas that only enriched a few even when talking about the MIC, it actually made them poorer overall.
3:43 Russia and Belarus?
All this and a decade old report has been saying that we don't have enough equipment to fight say Russia for long, but nobody is refilling inventory of just the basic items like rifle and pistol ammunition, mortar rounds, artillery rounds, not to mention the more complicated items like the javelin, hymars rockets.
Yea, the Comanche didn't go into production, but he didn't tell you that the Apache got a new tail rotor and Longbow radar system out of it. The F-35 is the most advanced anything ever, with wings! And the most successful export aircraft EVER! It is unquestionably the best, most advanced plane period....we'll have to see how the B-21 ends and the N.G.A.D.. It's not cheap leading the world in damn near everything!!
Invests that much,not spend. Jobs are created when you SPEND.
the federal government spending is how currency enters circulation
Same thing, jobs are created and saved when you invest too. Did you think that through? Investment allows a company to have the financial security to expand, branch out into new areas of revenue.....HIRE!
NO. Taxpayers are paying to Protect the whole world. You're welcome world. William s
You should listen to the Shawn Ryan Show if you really know what war is about. No one knows more than war than the actual people whole fought in it. At one point our tax dollars went to protecting freedom and fighting the good fight but now it’s back-doored to contractors as explained in the video to incentivize profits and making greedy people more money
It's not anticipation. We build our defense systems to counter possible threats. Nothing worse than losing a war.
Texas Tank Trivia = American law says all of a state's National Guard tanks have to be in the same Division. Texas had a lot of tanks so they were all gathered in the 49th Armored Division. With five over-size tank battalions, the 49th was the largest armored division in the entire world.
This changed in recent years. The Army demanded the National Guard update it's equipment to modern standards and be able to be air-transportable, but the 49th was too big to fly and it was far too expensive to replace or improve all those tanks. Many were disposed of. The 49th now has only three standard-sized tank battalions (87 tanks each), the same as a regular armored division.
The milking of the government by outside contractors is nothing new. It's not limited to the military either.
Everything we have sent to Ukraine is old stuff... near end of life... European Countries send thier old stuff while buying NEW stuff... The recent long range atacms missile we sent to ukrain would have been destroyed soon for being out of date... You can SEE how effective our 1970's Tech is against Russia's "Modern" stuff is in the Ukrainian war.
tl;dr
China wants power, influence, and money. In the current world, no hot war can get you that.
The world militaries are prepping for the unknown. The technological Singularity is coming, that crosses all disciplines and sciences -- a massive, worldwide, social shift of unknown direction, due to psychological, communications, educational, and global perspective shifts -- when the speed of technological change becomes so great that change itself becomes the pace of life. You can see that happening already, but the Singularity is when the speed of technological revolution happens more quickly than the speed of product production, so nothing can be mass produced, because it will be already useless by the time it hits the market. Everything will be bespoke to the individual case or circumstance. This Singularity has been estimated as happening around 2050 for decades now, since the early '90's at least, and it seemed to coincide with Global Warming and other trends, so that has been the placeholder date since forever. But recent futurism studies have shown it happening closer to 2030 -- coincidental with the climate tipping point in newer accelerated warming trends as well, but not correlated in any known way. The Internet, as an example, is expected to be mostly criminal activity very soon, and virtually useless as a communication format by 2030, for instance. And the water crisis, and rising sea levels all seem to be coming to a head by 2035 or so, now, on current trajectories.
This is actually a very serious expectation, not like Y2K or 2012 or some looming catastrophe catching the public imagination. It's predicted to be a massive shift, bigger in scale than the Great Enlightenment of the West. The World will radically change, and all the world governments are trying to plan for it. You can already see the social upheaval from the speed of change and the push for accountability and the grasping for tradition across society. Many expect it to be a post capitalist world, many believe in catastrophic devastation and barbarism, many foresee peace and prosperity on a scale for all that has only ever been imagined. But what's largely agreed upon is that it's gonna be big, and that's one very consistent reason from the lab coats and big brains why we have the military push across the planet -- not for specific wars, but trying to prepare for the big unknown. Lots of push back on the idea at all, as it seems impractical and silly to many people. So it gets couched in other terms, but preparedness is the worldwide watchword, in government circles, think-tanks, military spending, and social engineering, as well as paranoid survivalist circles. Something is definitely coming, though.
It isn't just China we're preparing to fight, but the collapse of World order and the ascendancy of another, new order. My fantasies run toward worldwide peace, though I expect oligarchy or something equally authoritarian. But I don't really know what to expect, except that it probably won't include me.
And look at what NASA is able to churn out with their budget vs Lockheed Martin over similar project lifecycles. Interplanetary, and now stellar, probes landing autonomously on other planets and performing for YEARS beyond engineering expectations. Voyager has been in space for 47 years, have crossed into interstellar space now, and are STILL actively returning scientific data. Yes NASA has had issues too. Webb went way over budget and schedule, but turned out to be worth every penny and day.
They should’ve thumbnail this America’s failures cause that’s all it looks like, but you have to fail to succeed
Reuters article says 2023 had 16% increase in selling military equipment to foreign countries. $238 billion in sales
Yes Andre we do sell our military equipment sometimes will actually just give it to a country as well and we also get some other countries ammunition and stuff as well
Texas could beat Europe lol. It's funny because it's absolutely true.
Bro thats why we don't have universal healthcare 😅
Not aliens Andre they are demons
War means profit, not for the little guy that pays for it, but for politicians and their cronies.
The person that made the video you reviewed is full of.... When you are ten to twenty years advanced to all others. It takes more time to push the bar even more.
Can u react to "why the us is spending $200b on this new plane" by search party
Don't Forget Russia is in Europe😂
YES. And we also design Equipment 2 just sell 2 Ally countries. William s
TEXAS BOOO
Im of the opinion that the problem lies in our contra ting process. There arent many penalties because there arent many contractors. And they know this and so they get paid even with delays and i overruns. Honestly, if just one of them pushed HARD to be realisti, be test driven in development, and made on time and full transparency of utmost priority, a culture wide shift at a company, I think they would see better results, mor we bang for buck, and more contracts because they are good for it.
It happens. There are always problems. It is the good and bad of our system. We do spend too much, but so do the other countries like China and Russia. There are reports that there have been problems with both Chinese and Russian equipment, too.
I think that many countries have shady dealings with contractors just as we do. It isn't something new. Presidents and politicians are human and have flaws.
I think that currently our main stream news media is also not going into in depth reporting on many levels. Politics here isn't a nice thing.
The nuclear warheads. R Not against you. They're 2 protect you. So you don't have to build them. And anyone who does have warheads. Thanks twice before they. Mess with you. William s
Well
A bit one sided and politically charged. WW2 spending example doesn’t account for the change in the overall economy. WW2 spending was done when the stock market was in the hundreds and now it’s over 20,000. Just one example of twisted logic.
Wendover makes great videos!