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The Senate last week easily passed a $768 billion defense bill that its supporters say will continue to give the U.S. an edge over rivals, namely Russia and China.
The Trends Journal has reported on the U.S.’s massive investment into its military, with little to show for it. Gerald Celente has pointed out that the American military has not won a war since WWII and has been stacking up defeats, including the recent retreat from Afghanistan. (See: “DUH! PENTAGON SURPRISED BY CHINA’S TEST OF HYPERSONIC MISSILE,” “PENTAGON: TARGET CHINA,” and “U.S. ‘ALREADY LOST’ AI WAR WITH CHINA, PENTAGON’S FORMER SOFTWARE CHIEF SAYS.”)
Sen. Jack Reed, the chairman of the Armed Services Committee, brushed off criticism of the size of the bill, and said the U.S. “faces an enormous range of security challenges.”
Reed said in a statement that the bill “addresses a broad range of pressing issues from strategic competition with China and Russia; to disruptive technologies like hypersonics, A.I. and quantum computing; to modernizing our ships, aircraft, and vehicles.”
The Senate vote followed the House’s vote that representatives “rejected” Biden’s request to “keep military spending essentially flat, and instead overwhelmingly called for increasing it substantially.”
“One of the major challenges our military faces right now is dealing with the rapid pace of technology is getting the Pentagon to better and more quickly adopt the innovative technologies that we need to meet our national security threats,” Rep. Adam Smith, D-Wash., told the paper. “Those threats are very real.”
The Senate passed the bill in an 89-10 vote, The New York Times reported. The paper said $5 billion alone will be earmarked for shipbuilding with the hope of developing five additional battle force ships and a dozen more Boeing fighter jets. The paper wrote, “Such projects can bring coveted jobs and development to lawmakers’ districts and states, helping to ensure their continued support and expansion regardless of which political party is in power in Washington.”
TREND FORECAST: As the saying goes, “Generals are always fighting the last war.” And America’s post WWII war track record is an unblemished failure. From their weaponry to tactics, the U.S. military have exemplified a common misconception and/or misunderstanding of technology and development in warfare… regardless of who they are fighting.
And the U.S. $768 billion 2022 military budget of more tanks, planes, ships and antiquated artillery for the 21st century further exemplifies their backwardness. We are planning to fight an enemy that does not exist.
In addition, as we have forecast, war with China will be the War that ends all wars.
And if America stays on the trend lines drawn since the War on Terror launched by US President George W. Bush following 9/11, it will be the last world war. As we have quoted Albert Einstein, “I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”
TRENDPOST: There were no public protests of the large increase that takes tax payer dollars to enrich the military industrial complex. And as noted, the vast majority of the Washington crime syndicate, i.e. Congress, supports America’s war mongering agenda.
Also ignored by the Presstitutes who get paid to put out by their corporate pimps and government whoremasters are the facts of the millions of innocent people the United States has murdered in the name of bringing “freedom and democracy” to nations they invaded and the countless trillions of dollars spent to enrich the corporate war machine.