Even if we cut our budget in half we would still out spend Russia and China combined by more than 300 billion. The US defense budget is very bloated. One problem is how privatized the US military has gotten. Contracting many jobs out to private companies that rip off the government and US tax payers. One prime example is the chow halls are contracted out and are run very poorly by private companies.
A push back on this is that it is a waste of resources to have personnel making food. Specialization is good and outsourcing also means you can adjust far easier.
Less people around the world would be killed especially by US manufactured weapons.
With the money saved you could do something productive and have universal healthcare to prioritise caring for people instead of killing them.
What if, hear me out, instead of killing people all over the world, we helped people all over the world? We could give food aid to starving people, help them to farm and irrigate land, have large vaccination programs to prevent disease, give out AIDS medication, provide contraception to prevent overpopulation, etc. We could call it "America Aid", or something like that.
We were doing that with the current military spending. I have a better name===USAID!
Russia has a very long list of military objectives. If the US slashed its defense budget and pulled out of NATO, Russia would not hesitate to push as far west into Europe as it could. Whether Russia could financially sustain such a large military campaign with Urals oil trading at under $60 a barrel is another thing.
China is facing a demographic collapse and any major military campaign would just cause that collapse to happen sooner. And Chairman Xi has purged most of China's military of anyone who could actually lead the military through the war in favor of loyalists (sound familiar?). So, I am not so sure that China could even launch a successful invasion of Taiwan. China plays a long game and does not like to force anything. I doubt a US military pullback would make a big difference with China. Although, the Chinese would probably assert themselves more aggressively in the South China Sea and pick on the Philippines and Vietnam.
Policing the world is about influence towards US interests. This is why Trump is going after Greenland. China has been trying to gain a foothold on that place for years by placing the gov't and locals in debt to them. And that place has a treasure trove of mineral riches and holds strategic value.
During the Biden, Harris Mayorkas, horrible time in office, did you see all the other countries flags flying as the invaders , invaded our country flying their countries flags.
Did you see any American flags flying as they crashed our gates?
Look what’s going on in Europe right now. Centuries old neighborhoods destroyed by Muslim invaders.
622,000 invaders into America had criminal records. The democrats know that. It’s what they wanted!
The United States Army has only a little over 400,000 in its ranks and there is someone who wants less protection from the invaders?
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Would Russia and/or China immediately try to take things over? Or would it even matter? We have a military presence pretty much everywhere... I'm not trying to form an argument for it or against it, I'm just wondering what would actually happen if that presence disappeared.
It wouldnt matter, if USA cut military spending 75% The USA would still be far and away the Most Powerful Military The World has ever seen, in a Ground War without using Nukes, USA Could easily beat China, Russia, North Korea and Iran easily. The USA is Light Years ahead of any other Country Technologically, and by the time they finish Boot Camp, any USA Military Man could make The Alpha SPETSNAZ look like they don't know what their doing.
This is hopelessly naive.
Sure the US always is the nuclear power, but who will really use that?
In local combat and ground war, the US loses in a numbers and logistics game. China, Russia, India, even Turkey have access to 1 billion potential soldiers, the US 100,000 short term and maybe 1 million with a draft.
The US is also not going to send troops to defend places like Tajikistan, Mongolia, Armenia, Indonesia, Syria, Borneo, Indônèsia etc.
China regularly war games the Taiwan attacks and is very active now building bases in S China Sea, and even in Africa.
Fortunately, US is defended by Atlantic and Pacific, so no ground war is coming for us, LOL. Sadly, that is not the case in Asia and Africa.
The game Trump seems to be playing is to just give Asia and Africa to China, and Central Asia and Middle East to Russia, in exchange for them getting out of North and South America plus Arctic. Each power would then have their zone, and US could save money no longer having to pay for defense in the far parts of the world. Nuclear deterrence should keep Russia out of EU territory, but Europe would have to pay their own defense.
Similar to China and Russia, to hell with democracy and self determination. US will just take Canada, Greenland and Mexico...just because we can. Heck, we'll just take Central America too, right down to Panama. A Wall at Panama will be shorter and cheaper, and USA can have 50 years of growth by developing, educating and modernizing Mexico and C America.
The US can be a dominant bully in our zone, just like the Chinese and Russians will be in theirs.
End of Pax Americana, start Trump Version of Monroe Doctrine.
It wouldnt matter, if USA cut military spending 75% The USA would still be far and away the Most Powerful Military The World has ever seen, in a Ground War without using Nukes, USA Could easily beat China, Russia, North Korea and Iran easily. The USA is Light Years ahead of any other Country Technologically, and by the time they finish Boot Camp, any USA Military Man could make The Alpha SPETSNAZ look like they don't know what their doing.
This is hopelessly naive.
Sure the US always is the nuclear power, but who will really use that?
In local combat and ground war, the US loses in a numbers and logistics game. China, Russia, India, even Turkey have access to 1 billion potential soldiers, the US 100,000 short term and maybe 1 million with a draft.
The US is also not going to send troops to defend places like Tajikistan, Mongolia, Armenia, Indonesia, Syria, Borneo, Indônèsia etc.
China regularly war games the Taiwan attacks and is very active now building bases in S China Sea, and even in Africa.
Fortunately, US is defended by Atlantic and Pacific, so no ground war is coming for us, LOL. Sadly, that is not the case in Asia and Africa.
The game Trump seems to be playing is to just give Asia and Africa to China, and Central Asia and Middle East to Russia, in exchange for them getting out of North and South America plus Arctic. Each power would then have their zone, and US could save money no longer having to pay for defense in the far parts of the world. Nuclear deterrence should keep Russia out of EU territory, but Europe would have to pay their own defense.
Similar to China and Russia, to hell with democracy and self determination. US will just take Canada, Greenland and Mexico...just because we can. Heck, we'll just take Central America too, right down to Panama. A Wall at Panama will be shorter and cheaper, and USA can have 50 years of growth by developing, educating and modernizing Mexico and C America.
The US can be a dominant bully in our zone, just like the Chinese and Russians will be in theirs.
End of Pax Americana, start Trump Version of Monroe Doctrine.
The Army and National Guard have almost a million troops in uniform right now.
There's another 200,000 Marines.
The US fielded 12 million troops during World War 2 when the population was a little over 1/3 of what it is now.
One US soldier is worth 10 Russian or 20 Chinese troops.
It took 500 years to defeat the US, UK, USSR and European imperialists in India, Central America, Africa, Asia, South America, etc.
Middle East is still on ongoing battle remove the US & NATO sponsored Genetic European apartheid dictatorship temporarily occupying Ancient Palestine.
The US Army was routed man-to man, killed, in the Fall of Saigon, April 1975, ran away in combat and left 10,000 soldiers alive to be cannibilized, bodies parted out as souvenirs to Japanese Tourists.
I'd say with the population tripling a full 2/3 are useless to the military.
We could still field the 12 million we had in Ww2 which would be enough to defeat Russia and China together.
The WW2 is not a fair comparison because during that time, the US was fighting for justice and survival. Almost everyone was behind the US. Now the US is the bad guy, so 2/3 of population would not only be useless, they could even become obstructions to the military. Even if you manage to get 12 million soldiers, you need to waste 2 million of them to enforce martial laws to quell any potential resistance within. After all, what do you want to achieve by playing this war game against Russia and China? War should not be treated like a football game for bragging rights. Trump is naive about international relations; Vance is a very dangerous fellow.
It took a long time to nullify US aggression.The brave soldiers across the world defeated the US Army and Navy. Now they have receded. Force to sit at the table and discuss matters instead of bullying nations.
The Mythical White Race went extinct around 200AD-1500AD as the Xiongu replaced the Gene Pool in Western Asia. The Renaissance was about erasing the Chinese and Asian cultures. But the genes could not and still to this day the genes cannot be edited remove the Asian heritage on the Proto races. If someone can perfect gene editing to perform such a task it would be a miracle and the person would be very rich and famous.
I'd say with the population tripling a full 2/3 are useless to the military.
We could still field the 12 million we had in Ww2 which would be enough to defeat Russia and China together.
The WW2 is not a fair comparison because during that time, the US was fighting for justice and survival. Almost everyone was behind the US. Now the US is the bad guy, so 2/3 of population would not only be useless, they could even become obstructions to the military. Even if you manage to get 12 million soldiers, you need to waste 2 million of them to enforce martial laws to quell any potential resistance within. After all, what do you want to achieve by playing this war game against Russia and China? War should not be treated like a football game for bragging rights. Trump is naive about international relations; Vance is a very dangerous fellow.
Only American Democrats like Russia and China more than the US.
The US hasn't conquered the world because it has no interest in doing so.
Russia and China haven't done it only because they can't.
Only American Democrats like Russia and China more than the US.
The US hasn't conquered the world because it has no interest in doing so.
Russia and China haven't done it only because they can't.
Democratic Party is a big mess, but I don’t think they like CCP as much as the pubs. Historically Richard Nixon normalized relations with China. George W Bush admitted China to the WTO. The pubs are more aligned with CCP in many other matters, such as hunger for wealth and power, worshipping dictatorship, adoptions of propaganda machines, emphasizing loyalty over capabilities. China will fight for hollow causes and face value, but I don’t think they have any interests in ruling any south eastern countries. The US wants to annex Canada though.
I'd say with the population tripling a full 2/3 are useless to the military.
We could still field the 12 million we had in Ww2 which would be enough to defeat Russia and China together.
The WW2 is not a fair comparison because during that time, the US was fighting for justice and survival. Almost everyone was behind the US. Now the US is the bad guy, so 2/3 of population would not only be useless, they could even become obstructions to the military. Even if you manage to get 12 million soldiers, you need to waste 2 million of them to enforce martial laws to quell any potential resistance within. After all, what do you want to achieve by playing this war game against Russia and China? War should not be treated like a football game for bragging rights. Trump is naive about international relations; Vance is a very dangerous fellow.
it was evert nation for itself. nealy evey country was neutral as paf as piking the Axis or the Allies. they wanted freedom from imperialism, fascism, occupation, and genocide. Which both the Allies and Axis had long been doing for hundreds of years.