It looks like you're using an Ad Blocker.
Please white-list or disable AboveTopSecret.com in your ad-blocking tool.
Thank you.
Some features of ATS will be disabled while you continue to use an ad-blocker.
originally posted by: ketsuko
a reply to: Quetzalcoatl14
I would be all for abandoning plenty of the military bases we have around the world and cutting some of those countries loose.
For example, what on earth are we doing subsidizing the defense of all of Europe? They're supposedly so very wealthy and advanced that they sit up on high in their welfare states and lecture us while our blood and treasure lets them spend their budget on the things they sneer at us for not doing (socialized health care and college, just for two).
Let them defend themselves and manage that portion of their budget too. Then we can save a lot of money.
originally posted by: ketsuko
a reply to: Quetzalcoatl14
The problem is disentanglement.
The global economy is intertwined that if we removed ourselves from someplace like Europe, for example, it could produce the event that causes the global economic correction. I don't think their welfare states can exist while supporting a national defense sufficient to holding off Russia, and Russia *will* get ideas if they don't do it.
So Europe would be looking at a prolonged state of economic distress and likely social unrest if we did withdraw.
originally posted by: seasonal
a reply to: ketsuko
Is the US in treaties to defend these other countries.
London is the finance, China is the manufacture and the US is the muscle. That is the world plan that the string pullers are going with.
originally posted by: seasonal
a reply to: Quetzalcoatl14
Wish I didn't agree, but I do.
originally posted by: seasonal
a reply to: Quetzalcoatl14
I NEVER was told in any history class that a president had said this about an industry. When a president sticks his neck out and tells us about the MIC we should have listened. Now we have to sit straight faced with boon dongles like the F-35 or the new "super" carriers. They are so far over budget and behind schedule it amazes me that people can defend them with any semblance of logic.
.