Pentagon begging for more money by scaremongering as usual.
It's not even got the cool art of Soviet Military Power.
China is more of a threat than Russia, but obviously this is military industrial complex welfare queens demanding more trillions of dollars.
I mean once you add in the fact of the size of the internationally recognized Chinese coastline and rights in deeper waters—given the nations such as Vietnam, Indonesia, Japan, Russia, Philippines, and what can arguably be given that China has other ASEAN nations in its backyard—such a thing isn’t that notable. Once we bring in the USA, it becomes dwarfed albeit less so over time. I’m not counting in the fact of most of the EU at least officially is involved in some capacity.
If there’s one thing our bloated military budget has weak resources for, disease and pandemic control, perhaps also along with the changing international and physical situation in the Poles is something that deserves more investment into.
