Authored by Ron Paul through The Ron Paul Institute,
The wailing sound you heard final Thursday was the refrain of the Beltway warmongers shrieking in despair at President Trump’s suggestion that there was no motive for america to be spending one trillion {dollars} on “protection.”
“…[O]ne of the primary conferences I need to have is with President Xi of China and President Putin of Russia, and I need to say let’s reduce our army funds in half. And we will try this, and I believe we’ll have the ability to try this,” the President informed reporters.
With this assertion, President Trump blew up one of many greatest myths of our time, notably amongst Republicans, that spending extra on the army is important to holding us secure. There’s a huge and well-funded community of political and industrial pursuits that depend upon sustaining that delusion, from the weapons producers to the mainstream media to the assume tanks and past. Why? As a result of most of what’s known as “protection spending” has little to do with defending this nation and lots to do with enriching the politically well-connected.
Sustaining that international army empire has bankrupted america whereas making us much less secure and fewer free. President Trump appears to grasp this. However the military-industrial complicated and its cheerleaders have for many years pushed the concept we couldn’t survive with out repeatedly growing their budgets.
Because of the work of the “Division of Authorities Effectivity” we’re studying that a lot of what has been offered as “important spending” is nothing of the kind. Take USAID, for instance. We have been led to imagine that this company was feeding the poor whereas selling the very best type of American values abroad. Because of DOGE, we discovered that the cash was going to absurdities like funding transgender puppet exhibits in Peru.
We’re additionally studying that a substantial amount of USAID cash was going to really overthrow democratic governments abroad – in addition to manipulate international media and promote censorship of “dissident” voices at residence and overseas. Not solely was USAID not serving to nations abroad – it was truly harming them!
Simply as with USAID, after we are capable of see simply the place that one trillion army funds goes People are going to completely notice that they’ve been lied to for many years. That’s the reason we’d like a full audit of the Pentagon and full transparency of the outcomes.
We additionally want a change in coverage. People are starting to grasp the financial prices of sustaining a worldwide army empire. US taxpayers are compelled to cowl greater than half of all the NATO funds whereas European nations rattle sabers at Russia and threaten conflict. If Europe feels so threatened by Russia, why don’t they cowl the prices of their very own protection? Why do poor People need to pay for the protection of wealthy Europeans? Haven’t we had sufficient of this?
I very a lot hope that President Trump follows by way of along with his plan to drastically cut back our bloated army funds. We are able to begin by closing the lots of of army bases abroad, bringing again our troops from international nations, and eliminating our large commitments to NATO and different worldwide organizations.
We will likely be richer, safer, and happier.
