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Yet America elected a president who doesn't want to cut a cent of defence spending, just redirect it to his mates.


We'll see.

"Trump wants U.S., China and Russia to cut military spending in half"

https://www.axios.com/2025/02/13/trump-china-russia-military...


Yet he is unwilling to cut a single cent, indeed there's a 13% increase for defense spending

https://www.airandspaceforces.com/trump-proposes-1-trillion-...


Well hopefully he at least pulls out of NATO to give subsequent presidents room to decrease spending.


Pulling out of nato will reduce revenue to US defence manufacturers, so I'd expect defense spending to increase even further thanks to the industrial-military complex


I don't think that's quite how it works.




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