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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe US military has eleven active aircraft carriers. China has one aircraft carrier period
And that is just active aircraft carriers.
Yet the US will end two wars and our military budget will still rise. The only thing weak about the US military are the excuses to keep supporting the military industrial complex at all costs.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_aircraft_carriers_by_country#Numbers_of_aircraft_carriers_operated
Ganja Ninja
(15,953 posts)carriers combined. There's simply no logical justification for that much power and that much expense.
rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)Scuba
(53,475 posts)Bigmack
(8,020 posts)and the ICBMs, MRBM, nuclear hand grenades....
This fucking country is crazy.
vminfla
(1,367 posts)military bases in Europe have been a stabilizing force in the region, resulting in unprecedented prosperity. Let's face it, the last two times we left the Germans unsupervised, they started world wars.
Despite any misgivings you may have of a given conflict, the US military presence has averted more wars than started.
cthulu2016
(10,960 posts)simply false.
vminfla
(1,367 posts)Early 20th Century Europe was marred with one conflict after another. Spanish Civil Wars, two World Wars, and so many others ....
And, because the French and the Germans do not spend as much of *their* GDP on military expenditures such as fighter jets, this frees up working capital on Airbus civilian planes.
think
(11,641 posts)A couple sources for the list:
http://academic.evergreen.edu/g/grossmaz/interventions.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_United_States_military_operations
If you read and understand the history of these interventions many were done on behalf of US multi national corporations especially in Latin and South America.
The Iraq war is just another example of military intervention on behalf of the oil companies and military industrial complex.
Now these companies are selling out America and sending jobs overseas while still putting us on the tab for the their military protection and intervention.
As U.S. Major General Smedley Butler stated "War is a racket":
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smedley_Butler
maggiesfarmer
(297 posts)to have the mightiest and strongest military in the world's history. American's have been socially conditioned to couple their feelings of patriotism with belief in a powerful military.
Unless a large percent of the voting population was literally starving to death, I can't conceive of anything that would shift that attitude. I also can't imagine any voter reform would get enough new voters to the polls to move this.
ronnie624
(5,764 posts)The waste of resources and revenue is insane.
Tierra_y_Libertad
(50,414 posts)Suji to Seoul
(2,035 posts)destructive to their country. Yet, we do the same shit with the MIC.
As Carlin said, "where would we be without our familiar, all-American, red-white-and-blue bullshit? Bullshit is the glue that binds us as a nation."
madrchsod
(58,162 posts)hootinholler
(26,449 posts)News to me.
countryjake
(8,554 posts)in mid-December, (maybe the 14th or 15th) and I believe that it was on Brian Williams' broadcast of the national evening news when he even used the word "ominous" to describe it.
COLGATE4
(14,732 posts)Some Chinese investors bought it with the idea of making it into a floating casino. Then the gov't thought better of it and decided to turn it into their first carrier. Out of date, second rate quality POS.
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