The US military’s budget continues to float around the all-time record for any military in human history, and is built around the idea of multiple major wars being fought at once.
But the Earth is a big planet, and the administration’s ambitions stretch well beyond the Pentagon’s capabilities. Fortunately for them, the Pentagon is only about 36% of the world’s military spending, and much of the rest is available for hire.
Proxy wars are nothing new, but the US policy of global interventionism at all times, in all theaters, is relying on proxy fighters like never before, with US foreign aid and the implicit threat of being labeled a “rogue nation” combining to ensure that militaries the world over are at the administration’s beck and call.
US intervention in Somali often comes in the form of Ethiopian ground troops, while US moves against undesirable factions in Western Africa usually amounts to just sending the intelligence to the existing regimes and standing back while they do the dirty work.
Direct US involvement in nations like Pakistan and Yemen have produced huge anti-US backlashes, and the policy of intervention by proxy seems to be driven not only by the Pentagon’s limits but by the hopes that indirect intervention will keep critics silent.
it seems like we can win wars against places like haiti, and Panama, but that was a long time ago. the taliban were 10,000 strong when we started and they kicked our ass. just imagine how much money it would take to do something in ukraine. god help us if we elect another yale or harvard grad. we better increase the budget before the mexican army gets some big ideas.
We been saying it for years that USG and its allied forces in Europe , Turkish government have no other alternative but to use elements as Saudis and UAE terrorists, the Neo fascism in Ukraine as their proxy to get nothing in return as usual.
Barack Hussein Obama’s manipulative politics, domestic or internationally been speaking the language of a Neo dictatorial system hiding behind the word “democracy” “democratic” which also been falsified before the time, this us their social political tools to fool people for the vulture capitalism agendas.The far right liberalist are hiding behind their falsified democracy while creating momentum for further falsifications of their kind of democracy for a total militaristic system safeguarding the vulture capitalism economic slavery.
I should hope that if Obama ran against McCain again Obama would still win .