The Pentagon cannot fully account for the $3.8 trillion in assets and $4 trillion in liabilities it has accrued at US taxpayer expense, ostensibly in defense of the United States and its allies.
As the Biden administration seeks $886 billion for next year's defense budget, the apparent indifference of the American collective - government, media, and public - to how nearly $1 trillion in taxpayer dollars will be spent speaks volumes about the overall bankrupt nature of the American establishment.
Despite spending some $2.3 trillion on a two-decade military misadventure in Afghanistan, the American people witnessed the ignominious retreat from that nation live on TV in August 2021.
The defense budget equates to American military power and the perceptions of national worth that translate into notions of American exceptionalism.
The fact of the matter is that our cavalier approach to defense spending has resulted in fraud of a massive scale.
The American people were sold a bill of goods - a military capable of projecting power world-wide to sustain the so-called "Rules based international order" upon which the notion of American exceptionalism has been premised.
In short, the defense budget is the equivalent of "Pay-to-play," in which the American people pay the US government to produce the results necessary to sustain their overinflated sense of self-worth.
https://www.theburningplatform.com/2023/12/13/why-the-pentagon-is-a-multi-trillion-dollar-fraud/
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