5/19/19: Who knows what gremlins dance about inside the head of President Donald R. (for “Russia”) Trump? He begins his Sunday, as he begins so many days, with tweeting. He’s infuriated by “all of the Fake News Sunday Political Shows, whose bias & dishonesty is greater than ever seen in our Country before.”
(It’s amazing how many “dishonest” people Trump believes there are, a classic case of projection.)
At any rate, he wants credit for saving “our Military, which
was a depleted disaster” before he took over.
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Older chart, same idea, 2014 |
By now, we realize the president has only a passing familiarity with real numbers, and if we go back to March 2017, when the U.S. was still operating under the budget limits set by President Obama and a GOP-controlled Congress, our country was spending $596 billion on national defense.
In U.S. dollars, this compared to $566 billion in combined spending by the next seven largest spenders: China ($215 billion), Saudi Arabia ($87 billion), Russia ($66 billion), the United Kingdom ($55 billion), France ($51 billion), India ($51 billion) and Japan ($41 billion).
Total defense spending, by all the nations of the world, in 2017, was estimated to be $1.7 trillion, with the U.S. accounting for 35% of the total. Chinese spending accounted for 13%, second highest, and Russia for 3.8%.
The U.S. military was not “depleted.”
A nuclear attack perhaps?
Speaking of military matters, President Trump once again made bombing the hell out of another country sound like a picnic in Central Park. “If Iran wants to fight, that will be the official end of Iran [emphasis added],” Trump cautioned in a Sunday tweet. “Never threaten the United States again!”
What is the plan for “ending” Iran?
A
nuclear attack?
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