Most of the expense/time (proportionately) is the Navy patrolling the various trade corridors and oceans with near routine exercises/drills from nearby nations against it, preventing disruptions and theoretically enabling the dying/dead “Pax Americana,” ultimately for US capital’s benefit (in tangent with the stability of the US dollar as the former de facto reserve currency). It’s the real reason the US is content with spending all the money on the military, not just a projection of power but a real return on investment (even more so now that taxes are getting more and more regressive and corps pay less than ever). The murder is almost secondary when it comes to that, a petty demonstration of what they’re capable of. Pretty gross tbh.
However that aggressive imperialist regime is more that often terrorising another country.
And that can be for many years and they can waste shitloads of money on wildly expensive missiles, bombs and bullets.
Barely kicked out of Afghanistan and they’re already mobilising to harrass Venezezuela, not coincidentally the country with the biggest oil reserves op the planet.
Most of the expense/time (proportionately) is the Navy patrolling the various trade corridors and oceans with near routine exercises/drills from nearby nations against it, preventing disruptions and theoretically enabling the dying/dead “Pax Americana,” ultimately for US capital’s benefit (in tangent with the stability of the US dollar as the former de facto reserve currency). It’s the real reason the US is content with spending all the money on the military, not just a projection of power but a real return on investment (even more so now that taxes are getting more and more regressive and corps pay less than ever). The murder is almost secondary when it comes to that, a petty demonstration of what they’re capable of. Pretty gross tbh.
that may be so in the ‘normal’ state.
However that aggressive imperialist regime is more that often terrorising another country.
And that can be for many years and they can waste shitloads of money on wildly expensive missiles, bombs and bullets.
Barely kicked out of Afghanistan and they’re already mobilising to harrass Venezezuela, not coincidentally the country with the biggest oil reserves op the planet.