The Effect of Military Sector Growth on United States's Ability to Perform Core Functions

The Chinese produced a two-minute social media video when the US left Afghanistan mocking the US for spending two trillion dollars in Afghanistan. The Chinese don't spend their money on occupations and invasions and bombing campaigns and regime change operations as a result have that money to spend on improving the lives of their own people. Of the money allocated the Department of Defense about half went to military contractors. Five companies got the vast bulk of our discretionary spending. Lucky Martin, Boeing, Raytheon, General Dynamics and Northrop gunman. Exactly the companies that are now profiting from the war in Ukraine. A lot of them are just getting rid of their old weapons stocks selling into the United States which gives it