President Biden plans to ask for $813.3 billion for military spending for the 2023 fiscal year, anonymous US officials told Bloomberg.
Of that number, $773 billion would go to the Pentagon, and the rest will be for other government agencies’ military spending, including the Energy Department’s nuclear weapons program.
Biden’s request represents a $31 billion increase from the $782 billion for military spending that was included in the massive $1.5 trillion omnibus spending bill he signed earlier this month. Also packed into the omnibus bill was an additional $6.5 billion for the Pentagon to pay for troops deployments in Eastern Europe and restock weapons being sent to Ukraine.
In the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, there are growing calls in Congress from both Republicans and Democrats for more military spending. The Pentagon is in a position where it can get just about anything it requests.
Included in Biden’s request for the 2023 budget is $130.1 billion for research and development of advanced weapons, such as hypersonic missiles and artificial intelligence. The Pentagon views such spending as vital to its focus on countering Russia and China.
Biden will also request $145.9 billion for the procurement of new military hardware. According to Bloomberg, items on the top of the buy list include 61 F-35 fighter jets from Lockheed Martin, the purchase of the new B-21 bomber from Northrop Grumman, and two Virginia-class submarines from General Dynamics.
813 billion $.!! Borrow from China
… and the Fed into “Qualitative Tightening” and “rate shocks”, … and pandemics, … and climate catastrophes, … and Israel’s increasing need for our ‘foreign aid’, ….
Every crisis is an opportunity, … despite blanket population surveillance, rigidly controlled MSM, and the National Security State’s reign of terror.
Money we don’t have. The Fed is raising rates, as conditions tell us that there is going to be a recession. My guess is around the time of the mid terms we will be in a full blown recession, with the wheat shortage having hit the market. Then there is the oil shortage. Then there is the shortage in materials for fertilizer. Diamonds for drilling and other machinery. Biden is killing us for the mid terms.
And we approach the point of this whole exercise … the $100B Germany is increasing is likely going to go for these purchases too …
“President Biden plans to ask for $813.3 billion for military spending for the 2023 fiscal year”____ US Pentagon is just excellent at wasting its taxpayer money which is now going to be 70% of their income tax….!
As Martyanov says, geopolitical power rests on geography, the economy that grows from geography and military power.
In that respect, the US has been lucky in geography. Unfortunately for the US, both China and Russia has it beat. And in the next couple decades, both China and Russia will exceed the US in economy and military power, no matter how much the US spends of its declining dollar while impoverishing its electorate.
Face it, it’s over. The US Empire is toast. Stick a fork in it. It’s done. China and Russia will pepper the US like eggs.
US national security isn’t threatened by anyone. The country is fortunate to have Canada on one side, Mexico on the opposite side, and fish on the other two sides. Yet the country spends more on its military than the rest of the world combined. Money is especially wasted on a half-million person ground force which hasn’t won any of its many trumped-up wars in the last fifty years. Then there are the obsolete aircraft carriers, the junk F-35 mistake-jet. . .the list goes on to include grand money-wasting supported by a bought-and-paid-for corrupt congress.
This is a sh-t-can full of the peoples money and what do we get for it? Do you feel safer? Are you well fed? Are your bills paid? Do you have economic advantages? I can go on and on and on… At some point, when such tremendous monies have been spent on warfare, we will have war. (!)