Keep in mind both inflation and real GDP growth. US defense spending in the 2002-2012 period was consistently over 4% of GDP. It's now down to 3.5% and had been pretty steady since 2015. (My data goes through 2021 though so pre-Ukraine-war) https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/USA/united-states/military-spending-defense-budget
I said this last year too, but if China has its sights set on invading Taiwan in the next 5 years or so, now's absolutely the time to do it. We're preoccupied with Ukraine and the American people will quickly get frustrated with 2 front war, when neither directly impacts Americans. Has the bonus of potentially getting Trump back into power if Americans turn on Biden, which makes it easier for both Xi and Putin to dominate the world stage and fracture the west.
PLA calls 'Taiwanese independence forces' tumor that must be removed Colonel warns 'operation' must be conducted, responsibility is not of 'scalpel' https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/4861460
Philippines is doubling down and giving us more access to their bases. China is ****ed is Philippines goes all in. Funny how right wing trolls only mentions negative @basso news
Biden is telling China it won't be bullied by the CCP. This is the only thing China will understand. POWER
Singapore has pivoted from China to USA. People have no idea the amount of crazy **** happening in the south China sea right now
Another session of wargames on how the PRC would try to take Taiwan. The results were that Taiwan is able to hold but at great cost. Lots of casualties on both sides with the conflict expanding to Japan.
Ray Powell; why were you silent when Japan bullied its way to build a military installation—/kicking out the Taiwanese residents——on a Taiwanese fishing island, once oil reserves were discovered near the island, DaiYu island
Like Ukraine the USA will be ready to fight to the last Taiwanese and make some serious defense industry mooolah if the war can drag on long enough.
I dont like to ruin it, but the US intel report part II may contains valuable info like 1) China mixed soy milk with water to fill up their missiles 2) their submarine ran with steam engine 3) we need 1 trillion defence budget increase to keep up sorta of embarrassing when China finally flexes their muscles ,all the sudden other tuck their tail and stayed quite
We get it, you like independent people to get crushed, as long as the US is not the crusher. Your worldview has not changed in the past 60 years, I can respect that level of commitment.
Actually it has changed with experience, reading and. watching how we are deceived by the mainstream media, which is often part of the same conglomerates that make the moolah with our wars. Like virtually everyone from my era I started off fearing the Commies taking over the world under the Domino Theory, and believed f myths about the founding of Israel , Davy Crockett and the Alamo etc.
