The United States spends as much as China, India, Russia, United Kingdom, Saudi Arabia, Germany, France, Japan, South Korea, Italy, and Australia spend on defense—combined. And remember: Many of the countries in that list are US allies. The continuous, almost automatic approval of ever-higher US defense budgets is a scandal in plain sight. Someone ought to do something about it. That someone is you. https://thebulletin.org/premium/2021-09/introduction-can-we-make-overspending-on-the-military-politically-costly/
John Mecklin, writer/editor 