Wednesday, March 29, 2023

Top US General Says A Rusian Victory In Ukraine Would Force A 'Doubling' Of The US Defense Budget

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff U.S. Army Gen. Mark A. Milley testifies before the House Appropriations Committee-Defense on the 2024 DoD Budget in the Rayburn House Office Building, March 23, 2023, in Washington D.C. (DoD photo by U.S. Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Alexander Kubitza)  

Military.com: Not Stopping Russia in Ukraine Would Force 'Doubling' of US Defense Budget, Milley Says 

The top general in the U.S. military warned Thursday that not supporting Ukraine now would lead to a massive increase in future defense budgets -- and global conflict that has been avoided since World War II ended. 

 "If that rules-based order, which is in its 80th year, if that goes out the window, then be very careful," Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Gen. Mark Milley testified to Congress on Thursday. "We'll be doubling our defense budgets at that point because that will introduce not an era of great power competition. That'll begin an era of great power conflict. And that'll be extraordinarily dangerous for the whole world." 

Milley's remark at a House Appropriations Committee defense subcommittee hearing comes amid growing skepticism from Republicans about the price tag of U.S. aid to Ukraine. Milley was testifying alongside Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin about the Biden administration's $842 billion request for Pentagon spending for fiscal 2024.  

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WNU Editor: The proposed 2024 US defense budget is $886 billion .... Biden wants $886 billion defense budget with eyes on Ukraine and future wars (Reuters).

19 comments:

Anonymous said...

Russia has mostly pulled out of Syria, Kola Peninsula and Armenian/Azerbaijan demarcation line. At this rate Russia will pull out of Moscow.

Anonymous said...

How convenient for those already making a killing.

Ron said...

Europe is a continent of fools because they have lived for 70 years under the protection of the US warfighters and taxpayer. They have the luxury of cradle to grave financial support, and believe in false nonsense like a person can change their gender by changing their clothes or a trace amount of an invisible, odorless, nonreactive gas, CO2, is the main driver in this planet's climate.

Miley's assumption is sole based on the concept that they do not have, or pay for, a competent warrior class to protect them from what they fear. We in the USA will do it. Miley is not smart enough to know he and his philosophy is exactly why the American empire is in decline and will continue its decent.

Anonymous said...

Milley: The USA must rule the world in order for Europe to be safe.

But things have changed General Milley. It costs too much money to rule the world, and the USA is longer capable of ruling the world.

The US Empire is in the process of collapsing, similar to how the Roman Empire collapsed. Best to stop continuing to try to rule the world, General Milley.

Anonymous said...

Okay well we're not going to win so maybe we should stop all social security payments immediately so we can build up this extra trillion dollars that we apparently need to send to Lockheed to save democracy.

Anonymous said...

Good thing the Fed can just keep printing money without consequences

Anonymous said...

Fake news

Anonymous said...

Female Russian medics 'are being pressured into becoming sex slaves and are "passed around" between officers or beaten'

Who runs Russia? Hugh Hefner?

Anonymous said...

I blame Spiro Agnew

Anonymous said...

12:17

You got to be kidding right? Picked this up for the Onion, did you?

You have more BS than stars in the sky.

Yes! Of course!! And the russians are using shovels, have no tanks, kidnapp little kids, bombed the nuke plant, shot the folks in Bucha.

What the F else are we going to hear? Yes!!! Now I got it!! Wait until next week when 12:17 says........

Russians are burning churches with Jews in side them. An even worse!!!!! Putin happily announces the Grand
re-opening of Auschwtiz and Bergen Belson

Bull shit.

Anonymous said...

Yep, now we know their strategy LOL

Anonymous said...

Icarus_Abides

Young Communist said...

In fact the real peacekeep in europe was USSR, and also because not a single East european nation is an innocent virgin and (Hungary and Romania sided nazifascist), and despite his problems, has done a good job in that.

After his fall, USA-UE-NATO become greedy, and enter in a new era of colonialism, but many european countries are defeated nations, protectorate forced to side every stupid NATO wars, including use of neonazist, feeded by rich elites, to push their agenda into madness, when the rest of the world is tired of western double standard. USA empire are start to collapse like our Roman Empire in the past.

Anonymous said...

2nd repost

Germany welcomes Biden plan to halt US troop withdrawal

Meanwhile Poland, Romania, and others do not want the Russians back.

So, what was Young communist saying? Oh, he was yelling a 1,000 lies hoping one would slip through.

Female Russian medics 'are being pressured into becoming z*exual sl@ves and are "passed around" between officers or beaten'

Anonymous said...

Germany welcomes Biden plan to halt US troop withdrawal

Anonymous said...

Female Russian medics 'are being pressured into becoming s*x-ual sl*ves and are "passed around" between officers or beaten'

Anonymous said...

1:14

Skoda,
Multiple postings of the same article on different threads, but with the same objective, misdirection of the blog thread.
Must be a slow news day at Hanover.

Anonymous said...

1509

you are the 1 who is yelling from the rooftops that Russia is a Christian nation protecting traditional values. You hot it half right. Russia is protecting the Russian traditional value of rape during war time.

Anonymous said...

Oh, Skoda, it is not you, but it is either Mr Fair and Balanced or the Ukie super orc