namelessone
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LOL, why does the US centric response not surprise me?
The U.S has a big budget because:
- it's a HUUUGE country and you need lots of troops and equipment to properly defend it. Such is the case with other massive countries like China and Russia who have big military budgets, though their tech isn't as advanced. Another big reason the U.S. has such a big military budget because it needs to prepare for future BIG wars. But until those come, it needs to practice its tech(and gain advantages) on smaller countries. Point is you don't need that big of a budget, no matter how large your country is.Take a look at China, it has at least 700 million more people than the U.S, it's a very big country, economically it's starting to catch up but it spends about 500 billion less dollars on military than the U.S. Russia, another classic bad guy for the U.S, can't match U.S economically and spends about 600 billion dollars less on military than U.S. Russia has an army at the same level as the French or German, with a poorer economy to boot yet it's supposed to be a rival to the U.S.
Maybe part of the world expects the US to come to their aid nowadays and in some ways it's natural. It wasn't always that way. US had a minor role in WWI and in WW II they did not act alone, even though he media likes to brainwash americans with this and WW II turns out to be US versus ****'s.
Dilettante's post on this was superb and explained the motivations behind the US's entry in the war. The US was one of the most important allies and provided manpower and resources when it was needed(and she was one of the few countries lucky enough to be far,far away from conflict) but this was a WORLD war and the US acted out for its own interest. F**k it, Romania + Hungary(two medium sized countries from europe) had more soldier losses than the US during the entire war(about 200.000 more), ****'s lost almost 5,5 million soldier, Russia about 9 mil .
Two thirds of the German Army died in the russian offensive not in western or central europe fighting americans. 70% of the Germany Army(divisions) were in the russian offensive and those left in Europe and North Africa were severly lacking men. By the time D-day came, 16 year old boys were entering the German Army and the Wermacht had no way of defending all that territory with dwindling resources(lacked oil for one thing) and manpower.
WW II was decided between ****'s and Soviet Union, with the Allies(including US) coming in third as far as importance was concerned. Just look at the numbers and you will see. Or forget about numbers, let's hear hitler's take on this in 1939: "Everything I undertake is directed against the Russians. If the West is too stupid and blind to grasp this, then I shall be compelled to come to an agreement with the Russians, beat the West and then after their defeat turn against the Soviet Union with all my forces".
Also, the US didn't protect anyone from U.S.S.R, not from E/C Europe anyway. The U.S(and western allies not just U.S.) happily gave away Central and Eastern Europe to commies and their influence(and Russia did their MAJOR part in defeating the ****'s), as a lot of countries from that part of the world fought for the Axis. A line was drawn, US and most of Western Europe, and Russia + Central/Eastern Europe, who fell to communism. To the winner go the spoils. U.S got to rebuild Western Europe for its own purposes and its own terms and become a economic powerhouse with the european economies in ruin and Russia got a boatload of countries under it's influence. So in those years from the Cold war, U.S. was trying to save its own hide should a nuclear war arise, they didn't give a crap about any country in Europe, they just wanted a buffer between them and what they perceived as the communist threat. A lot of people seem to forget that the allies(including U.S.) worked WITH the russians in WW II.
Coming back to more modern days, the U.S. "protects" its friends to gain advantages(strategic ones of course) but most of all to use that budget. The US built up a lot of weaponry because in their history they went through "scares" and now they have to use it on SOMETHING, no matter how pathetic the motivation is. Yeah, the U.S. helped Kuweit against Irak. Nevermind that they were buddies with saddam before. And after that they hanged him. Obama is buddies now with saudis, who have a lot of shady types linked with terrorism but I guess saudi oil and money is fine, no?
Also, the U.S have won the Afghani and Irak wars for a couple of years now. The major cities in Irak fell in a couple of weeks. They breezed through Afghanistan. You can't call the skirmishes that have been going on in the last couple of years wars, especially when the U.S. is THE INVADING FORCE. The U.S. only targets small backwards countries that they can associate with terrorism through media BS and take oil and other resources, or do so to ease the burden on Israel. Let's say tomorrow U.S. says that Kazakchstan is harbouring terrorists. Will anyone not believe them? Nope. It's a small country, who gives a crap about it, right?
I hope you're not really so naive to think that the U.S. is in Afghanistan and Irak to fight terrorism. They want oil resources(before they start to consume their own oil reserves, which is pretty smart IMO) and to ease the pressure on Israel, not to mention sending a message to all would be jew opressors. They didn't find WMD in Irak(ha-ha) and the U.S. government recognized that they went in Irak after hearing about Al Qaeda - Saddam connections from a tortured taliban leader. So they blew up an entire country on a wrong premise. But hey it's U.S., so we let it slide. BTW, why do you think that most of the people in Irak and Afghanistan despise americans, even though most of them didn't like the taliban rule or Saddam regime?
What the U.S. really needs to do is to really blow off steam by engaging in all out war with a large capable nation. She's doing all these skirmishes but they aren't satisfying enough for a country that can blow up the entire world seven times over. But anyway, U.S. seems to be building towards that big war so hooray for that. Let's say they kill all the mofos around Israel. What then? Will they reduce their defence budget? Nope, cause then they have to defend those areas against the evil russians and chinese. Good times ahead...
Closing thought: at one of the NATO(what a pointless organization) meetings, when everybody was high fiving eachother about how awesome they were, Putin came in with this message: The U.S. is building bases closer and closer to our country, meanwhile we have removed most of our bases from other countries, the U.S. continues to arm itself while we have reduced the army budget. Basically the gist of it was that the U.S. was coming closer to Russia, militarily. Now it's easy to say "hey they are just doing that to better defend european countries or israel" but picture it in reverse: how would the U.S. like it if Russia had bases in Cuba and most of the South American countries? Not so much fun, no?
Also, please don't accuse me of anti americanism. I am writing on an american keyboard, on an american invention, the internet, so don't start with that, ok?
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