International What happens if post-Afghanistan military spending doesn't decrease?

[Scheme]

So far I am thankful to Joe Biden (and to a lesser extent Trump) for leaving Afghanistan. However it will be essentially useless unless we see defense spending decrease.

One of the main points against staying in Afghanistan was that we were wasting money by the trillions.

So now that the war is over, one would expect military spending to go down. If it doesn't, then we essentially are just shifting our war efforts elsewhere and we really haven't done anything other than give up a country. If military spending doesn't decrease, then I wager we've weakened our position in the world for no reason.

 

[PulsingJones]

There will be another war soon, probably against <Insert Israel's Enemy>

The MIC cogs won't grease themselves

 

[D 1 Wrestler]

LoL. DoD budget will increase. I know a guy in sales who deals with DoD . They will buy stuff they have no use for at the end of their fiscal year so their budget isnt reduced and given to another area the next year

 

[Fugazy]

China bro. But that would be money well spent if it actually is used to confront them.

 

[D 1 Wrestler]

Oops double

 

[TheRealHNIC]

If Americans were to speak up and call for a decrease in military spending they would just stage a false flag.

 

[Ophydian]

So far I am thankful to Joe Biden (and to a lesser extent Trump) for leaving Afghanistan. However it will be essentially useless unless we see defense spending decrease.

One of the main points against staying in Afghanistan was that we were wasting money by the trillions.

So now that the war is over, one would expect military spending to go down. If it doesn't, then we essentially are just shifting our war efforts elsewhere and we really haven't done anything other than give up a country. If military spending doesn't decrease, then I wager we've weakened our position in the world for no reason.

Rich people will get hungry.

 

[Deorum]

They'll start issuing dire warnings through various commissions about the advancement of Chinese weapons systems that pose an existential threat to our national security if the challenge is not met.

 

[plataoplombo]

That money should be put towards all these stimulus packages instead of raising taxes, but nope, FU middle class.

 

[PrinceOfPain]

You spent twenty years wasting money on specialising your forces around counter-insurgency tactics against primitive enemies.
Now you'll have to spend money on equipping and preparing your military for engagements in the current century, otherwise you'll be losing the seaways, and not just a sand trap in the desert.

 

[SakurabasEar]

It won't really go down, they'll shift the overseas money overtime to other areas. They did it with kosovo and the first persian gulf war.

 

[MeatheadMike]

The Afgan war was financed via debt so don't worry.... we'll still be spending lots of money on it for years to come.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/hanktu...s-with-big-bills-yet-to-come/?sh=5d8d7a9b7f8d

We’ll keep incurring costs long after President Biden's pullout from Afghanistan is complete. Naturally, the United States has financed the Afghan war with borrowed money. Brown University researchers estimate that more than $500 billion in interest has already been paid (included in the $2.26 trillion total sum), and they figure that by 2050 the cost of interest alone on our Afghan war debt could reach $6.5 trillion. That amounts to $20,000 for each and every U.S. citizen.

 

[Matsukaze]

They'll use the money and call it war against children and fund more abortion clinics around the world.. children...bad....oh look another covid variant

 

[HockeyBjj]

LoL. DoD budget will increase. I know a guy in sales who deals with DoD . They will buy stuff they have no use for at the end of their fiscal year so their budget isnt reduced and given to another area the next year

Yup. I worked for a major aerospace company for a bit. We had contracts that weren’t yet finished and come November, DoD would be asking if they could pay for the rest of it now.

That way it looks like they’re truly using all of their money, and that they can’t afford any budget cut for the next year.

 

[D 1 Wrestler]

Yup. I worked for a major aerospace company for a bit. We had contracts that weren’t yet finished and come November, DoD would be asking if they could pay for the rest of it now.

That way it looks like they’re truly using all of their money, and that they can’t afford any budget cut for the next year.

Yup and this is purely non partisan. DoD and their subs will fleece whoever is in office

 

[ElKarlo]

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LoL. DoD budget will increase. I know a guy in sales who deals with DoD . They will buy stuff they have no use for at the end of their fiscal year so their budget isnt reduced and given to another area the next year

Use it or lose it is toxic and has created a terrible system of incentives in the govt.
my dad was in the NG as an officer He was trying to trade paint for whatever. He was told if he has enough paint he could get a Huey.
The military badly needs an audit. I’m sure we could still have the same size and strength for half the budget.

 

[Natural Order]

Imagine in 2021 discussing the idea of reduced government spending. Nothing in government is ever reduced, especially military budgets.

The amount of waste is incalculable.

 

[SKYNET]

I would love nothing more than a party to hold majorities in all branches of government and actually do some of the populist shit they campaign on which has typically promised a shift of money out of the ridiculously bloated military budget over to the people with common sense social safety net programs that the majority of voters are in favor of.

The problem is the American voter is tied up to one party because they get their info from TV and social media and in effect they determine their votes based a letter or a color not by the issues. This opens the door for war hawks on all sides to promise all kinds of wonderful shit when they campaign and when they get elected they do none of it.

This time around we have the DNC absorbing and championing this current youth zoomer zombie woke movement which might be the dumbest group of motherfnckers in history buying all their blue politicians horseshit lefty posturing, essentially stealing all of Bernie and Warrens policy ideas in the primaries and have enacted none of them except putting blue haired he/she weirdos in government while continuing to spend and shave nothing off the military budget. Nancy Pelosi always had plenty of shit to sling at Trump but somehow always passed his spending bills.

Move away from your party affiliations folks. Despite what your propaganda media tells you, the people are now serving the elites in Washington, not the other way around which is the way this country was originally founded on.

 

[KnightTemplar]

So far I am thankful to Joe Biden (and to a lesser extent Trump) for leaving Afghanistan. However it will be essentially useless unless we see defense spending decrease.

One of the main points against staying in Afghanistan was that we were wasting money by the trillions.

So now that the war is over, one would expect military spending to go down. If it doesn't, then we essentially are just shifting our war efforts elsewhere and we really haven't done anything other than give up a country. If military spending doesn't decrease, then I wager we've weakened our position in the world for no reason.

Oh, my sweet, summer child. The War on Terror is over. We're about to start Cold War II: Fu Man Chu. The US Military will simply move from focussing on Islamic terrorism to the threat presented by the PRC.

Far from being reduced, expect military spending to increase exponentially, as large scale conventional warfare against peer opponents is far more expensive than counter insurgency against a bunch of goat-fuckers with AK's and RPG's.

 

[KnightTemplar]

Yup. I worked for a major aerospace company for a bit. We had contracts that weren’t yet finished and come November, DoD would be asking if they could pay for the rest of it now.

That way it looks like they’re truly using all of their money, and that they can’t afford any budget cut for the next year.

It's like this in pretty much every government department, from national to local. Edinburgh Council's transport department is notorious for doing large scale roadworks, many of which aren't priorities, around the end of March. This allows them to spend all their budget before the end of the financial year. And thus claim an even bigger one for the next twelve months.