Begging & Borrowing From The Same Nations She Is Trying To Encircle & Suppress

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Note: How is it that America’s defense offense budget centers around preventing the rise or reemergence of China, Russia, and or any other power, yet at the same time the policy makers who dish out the money for this insatiable war machine, look to the very nations that they fear and are trying to encircle and suppress, for money to fund the war machine and the government budget of America?

Is not this fiscal insanity? This is a representation of a government gone wild/rogue and is desperately trying to turn back the hands of time to maintain their power and position, while at the very same time, move economically….politically…and militarily against the very nations whom they borrow funding from day in and day out!

US Defense Budget Designed to Support Fight Against Russia, China

Assistant Secretary of Defense for Strategy, Plans, and Capabilities stated that the 2017 Department of Defense budget focuses on US capabilities to deter or defeat near peer adversaries, including Russia and China.
WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – The 2017 Department of Defense budget focuses on US capabilities to deter or defeat near peer adversaries, including Russia and China, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Strategy, Plans, and Capabilities Robert Scher said on Monday.
“One of the key areas to focus on… in this budget is to say that great power conflict is something that we hadn’t done as much work on as we had done on other issues in the past, and [Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter] clearly wanted to focus on that,” Scher said at a Center for Strategic International Studies conference on defense spending.

In recent testimony to the US Congress, Carter named Russia, China, North Korea, Iran and global terrorist networks as the “five challenges” facing the Department of Defense in the future.

In February, the Department of Defense released a budget that seeks to balance resourcing current conflicts and preparing for future threats. “The key to this [balance] is we will not be able to prevail in a future conflict against a great power if we don’t start thinking planning, abut it now and today,” Scher explained.

For more than a decade, the United States defense budget has been largely focused on fighting its two major wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. As a result, numerous military officials have concluded that the US technological advantage over “near peer” adversaries China and Russia, has narrowed, and closing that gap has reemerged as a priority.

The shift toward European defense and support for NATO allies is among the most “notable” and “largest” shifts in the 2017 defense budget, Scher noted.

The $3.4 billion request to fund the European Reassurance Initiative “took stock in the shift in European security,” he said, referring to NATO allies’ growing concerns about Russia.

For 2017, the Defense Department has requested a total budget of $583 billion. The current level of US defense spending is more than 3.5 times as large as Chinese military spending, and more than 12 times as much as Russian defense budget.

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