US President Donald Trump’s proposal to boost next year’s military budget to US$1.5 trillion aims to blunt China’s global influence, a move analysts said could push Beijing to speed up its own military build-up with “greater urgency”. On Wednesday, Trump wrote on social media that the US military budget for the 2027 financial year should be raised in the face of “very troubled and dangerous times”. “This will allow us to build the ‘Dream Military’ that we have long been entitled to and, more…


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  • LadyMeow@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    3 months ago

    just what America fucking needs! Over 2x defense spending! Definitely not education, healthcare, childcare, food and housing stability, nah what we need is a grand wehrmacht for glorious conquest!