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Paying the Costs of Competition

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The Hard Thing for the United States to Motivate the American People to Spend More on Defense

Nani: I think we're seeing that right now with Ukraine, as you're saying, even Republicans are growing more cautious. The part of this article that I find most convincing is this assessment that it will be very hard for the United States to motivate the American people to spend more on defense. And my big concern is actually that we are not spending our top line the way we should given the priorities that we have and that the Chinese may have an easier time. Nani: So I think there's a danger that we get too pessimistic here because the trends in China are different than those in the US.

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