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Where does the DoD’s $700 billion annual budget go?
Russian bots work hard to discredit us military and undermine America.
It would be reasonable to get out of Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan - that would save a lot of money and American lives. Furthermore, it would be even more reasonable to make Germans, French, and other assorted West Europeans make pay at least something for their defense, which would save even more money for US taxpayers.
Russian bots work hard to discredit us military and undermine America.
If Russia wasn't wasting 4.3% of its GDP on weapons, maybe it could have better infrastructures, or encourage women to have more babies.
but be sure to invite Muslims who pop out 7 kids
Chechnya alone has 1.4 million Muslims
Those are "native" to Chechnya - but the ones in Moscow come from other former Soviet states (Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, etc)
Wanted to keep you all informed of the massive inventory adjustment processed at [Ogden] on Wednesday of this week. It isn’t as bad as we first thought ($8.5 trillion). The hit . . . $3.9 trillion instead of the $8.5 trillion as we first thought.
The Air Force, which had an $85 billion budget that year, nearly created in one stroke an accounting error more than a third the size of the U.S. GDP, which was just over $10 trillion in 2001. Nobody lost money. It was just a paper error, one that was caught.
“Even the Air Force notices a trillion-dollar error,” Andy says with a laugh. “Now, if it had been a billion, it might have gone through.”
Years later, Andy watched as another massive accounting issue made its way into the military bureaucracy. The Air Force changed one of its financial reporting systems, and after the change, the service showed a negative number for inventory — everything from engine cores to landing gear — in transit.
Much More, Longer Reading: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/pentagon-budget-mystery-807276/
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