The National Defense Authorization Act was approved last week in a 329-101 vote. It is $37 billion more than the administration sought in military spending.
The House of Representatives quietly cleared this massive military measure worth $839 billion with approval of 180 Democrats and 149 Republicans who came together to set new records for military expenditure, without so much as a feature headline on Facebook news cycle.
“The definition of a bi-partisan bill,” said Lockheed Martin’s boy, Alabama Republican Mike Rogers.
In a first of its kind analysis, released by the Defense Department Comptroller’s office, it was found to contain at least $58 billion in “congressional additions” over Biden’s budget request.
In addition to funding a catastrophic war in Ukraine, the additional $58 billion went toward purchasing weaponry the Pentagon had not sought, including $4 billion worth of warships made by constituencies of top lawmakers.
This all happened while the generation most affected lauded over Johnny Depp’s new girlfriend.
The victorious reintroduction of the earmark and the significant increase in military spending should have been a major news item. Defense “increases” of $58 billion (at least) are compared to the $26 billion in government earmarks in 2006, the year that sparked so much controversy.
As a result, Biden’s one-year boost in weaponry outpaces former President Donald Trump’s famed $200 billion collective military increase between 2017 and 2019 when he was buying their cooperation to back his authoritative attempts at subverting an election.
There was a moment during my lifetime that this bill would have created such outrage there would be protests en masse in Lafayette Square, and I would have been there. Yet today, the left who balked at Trump’s attempt at building up the war chest seem to be lining up in compliance.
What we are witnessing in this generation is a very clever rebranding of neoconservative ideals with a politically blue background.
Thanks to establishment effort flooding social media, bolstering Ukraine’s White David and Goliath war con with Russia, the so called left is salivating to blow them out of the water.
And it all began with a left hero.
This rebranding campaign was initiated during President Barrack Obama administration as research organizations, commentators, and other players advocated inverted, left-friendly versions of Bush’s rejected military utopianism, emphasizing on the use of force to accomplish social justice overseas. It worked magnificently.
As soon as Biden enters the picture, the beating of drums began against the enemy. The left did such a good job at demonizing Russia during Trumps reign, that it only took a social media campaign to show Zelensky as a hero and the left fell in line. “America’s fight for the little guy” promotion always works.
The con is quite layered, as the House Armed Services Committee Chair Adam Smith (D-WA) unsuccessfully attempted to argue against extending the top line. According to him, Biden’s $37 billion budget level is adequate to satisfy the military’s requirements. However, if it weren’t for the defense industry money that flooded his campaign, I would actually believe him.
The inclusion of funds to continue the development of a sea-launched nuclear cruise missile was also a part of the extra funding, which has been branded by experts in the field as an utter waste of money.
Biden’s F-16 sales to Turkey were given parameters, as Democrats in the House supported an amendment that would impose further restrictions on such sales, citing worries about Turkey’s acquisition of Russian weaponry, territorial incursions into neighboring nations, and human rights abuses.
If the measure is signed into law, Biden will be required to certify that the sale is important to US national security, like participating in destroying another nation of innocent people in a cloaked savior effort by using acceptable losses of our young people who have little options between extraordinary college debt and unaffordable housing on minimum wage.
Gen Z is between the devil and the deep blue sea while congratulating themselves on their social justice superiority.
Country, I was a soldier for you
I did what you asked me to
It was wrong and you knew
Country, now I’m just a stranger to you
A number, a name it’s true
Throw me away when you’re through
Home of the brave and the free, the red white and blue
But I wish it was true
The White Buffalo – Wish It Were True