Starcastle
Well-Known Member
My intention here is to not be partisan. I will take some shots at neocons but they can be found in both parties. When you listen to people like Lindsay Graham talk there seems to be no end in what we can spend. By the time this war in Ukraine ends(This decade?) we will have spent $50B helping Ukraine. The tab is pushing $20B now.
The numbers are astronomical with single companies taking in as much as entire countries will pay for military in a year.
Lockheed Martin. The aerospace company gets 88% of their sales from government contracts and revenues this year will be about $67B. That means Lockheed Martin symbol LMT takes in a similar amount that Germany and France spend on military in a year.
Much was made about the military hardware left behind in Afghanistan. At least $7B worth. That's what Mexico spends in a year on military. We can joke about Mexico but that is a country of 130 million people. That's what we leave on the ground!
The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan cost around $2T! What did we accomplish? Nothing!
It is time for us to stop thinking we need to be the world's police and we need to start demanding our allies do more.
The numbers are astronomical with single companies taking in as much as entire countries will pay for military in a year.
Lockheed Martin. The aerospace company gets 88% of their sales from government contracts and revenues this year will be about $67B. That means Lockheed Martin symbol LMT takes in a similar amount that Germany and France spend on military in a year.
Much was made about the military hardware left behind in Afghanistan. At least $7B worth. That's what Mexico spends in a year on military. We can joke about Mexico but that is a country of 130 million people. That's what we leave on the ground!
The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan cost around $2T! What did we accomplish? Nothing!
It is time for us to stop thinking we need to be the world's police and we need to start demanding our allies do more.