33
US looks at 8% defense budget cut in each of next 5 years, Washington Post reports
(www.reuters.com)
this post was submitted on 19 Feb 2025
33 points (100.0% liked)
US News
2506 readers
27 users here now
News from within the empire - From a leftist perspective
founded 6 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Think about it this way, instead of funding stuff like F35s, they'll spend that money on getting Blackwater to hire more goons who can be used to put down food riots.
I don't think there's any talk of replacing the entire US military though. They just want to reduce Pentagon budget over the coming years, and funnelling that money into stuff like PMCs seems to be an obvious next step. Also, if they're now realizing that they can't take on Russia and China then the policy would be to retrench which means they have less global commitments. Europe being dumped is one example of this. I very much agree with the assessment here https://archive.ph/00s4y