Chapter 951: US Military's Backlash?

In the past few years, the U.S. Navy has been cut by at least $300 billion.

It can be said that the U.S. Army, Navy and Air Force have suffered the most funding cuts.

As a result, the U.S. Navy is living a tight life, and the Navy is complaining, and the shipyards are complaining.

In the past, the U.S. military was used to spending lavishly and lived a rich life. The most developed places near U.S. military bases were not restaurants, but red-light districts.

The red-light districts near all U.S. military bases around the world are the most developed red-light districts in the country.

American soldiers received generous salaries and waved dollars in the red-light districts.

But now they can't be so free, and many military benefits have been cut.

The U.S. military-industrial enterprises are having a harder time, and their stock prices are constantly falling. Although the United States exports aircraft, tanks, cannons and warships to its allies, it can't make up for the losses of military-industrial enterprises.

The most terrifying thing is that the U.S. government is now mainly focused on economic development, so military spending will continue to show a trend of reduction.

Now in the United States, there has been a voice that makes the US military and military-industrial enterprises shudder, that is, to reduce the US military budget to less than 50 billion US dollars.

Because even if the US military expenditure is reduced to 50 billion US dollars, the US military expenditure is still the highest in the world.

Now the United States is arguing over whether to reduce or increase military expenditure.

Some people think that military expenditure should be reduced. After all, the total amount of US debt has been reduced in recent years, but the total amount is still large, and the interest to be paid every year is not small. The US interest rate increased to double digits that year, and now it has to pay back the debt. There is nothing big at present, and the focus is on economic development and debt reduction.

Some people think that military expenditure should be increased because the United States is facing more and more challenges, and a strong army is necessary to maintain the interests and units of the United States.

And from 1962 to now, when has the US military expenditure been less than 50 billion US dollars?

Not to mention how much the US dollar has depreciated, the purchasing power of the US dollar is far less than that of the US dollar in 1962.

Some experts even criticized the current US government's practice of reducing military expenditure, believing that the United States is destroying its own strength.

The current situation facing the United States is not very good. In the South Asian subcontinent, the United States has no military bases, and the situation it can influence is relatively limited; in Southeast Asia, the United States only has a military base in Singapore to maintain its huge influence in the Strait of Malacca, but with the excavation of the Kra Canal, this influence is bound to be weakened. There are some problems in the relationship with the Philippines, and the two sides have not yet reached an agreement on the signing of the treaty.

In the Middle East, the United States only has Israel as a fulcrum, but the unprecedented unity of Arab countries has given Arab countries great confidence and courage, so that now the oil-dollar is somewhat unstable, and the United States dare not issue bonds at will because of this.

Even some oil-producing countries are settling in RMB, British pounds, francs, German marks, rubles, etc.

What makes the United States even more unhappy is that Europe has been moving from the European Community to the European Union, constantly promoting integration, and now it is going to launch the European unified currency-the euro.

It is not that the United States has not made a fuss in this regard, intending to prevent the birth of the euro. After all, if the whole of Europe is truly integrated, its strength is no less than that of the United States, or even stronger than that of the United States.

In recent years, Europe has been getting closer and closer to the polar bear, which makes Americans hate it.

The polar bears are not dead yet. For the vast and resource-rich polar bears, Americans believe that they should be dismembered into 40 or 50 countries.

If the polar bears are integrated with Europe, then the United States will have to stay in the world island.

The Americans learned their diplomatic strategy from the British, and adopted the offshore island balance diplomatic strategy, which means that the Eurasian continent must not be peaceful and must be stirred from time to time.

The British relied on this strategy to prevent the emergence of a unified country in modern Europe. Whether it was Napoleon in France or the German art students, they all ended in failure.

But now it is not good that Europe is gradually moving towards integration, and even the timetable for the birth of the euro has been given, and Europe and the polar bears are getting closer and closer.

Then there is China. Even according to the GDP data released by China, China's total GDP last year reached 2.8 trillion yuan, equivalent to 700 billion US dollars, which is ranked eighth in the world.

But whether it is from China's power generation or other aspects, it is not quite right.

China's influence is increasing at an incredible speed. China, which talks about win-win cooperation everywhere, has the image of a good guy in the world and is very popular.

The United States is now unstable even in Latin America. Latin America has not had a good life for a few years, but it has already forgotten everything and even has anti-US forces.

The establishment of the North American Free Trade Area is not as good as the United States imagined.

The Mexican financial crisis really pitted the Americans. The United States gave Mexico huge help, providing $70 billion in aid. Mexico's financial turmoil only subsided in the first half of 1995. The United States not only did not make a profit, but also suffered a lot of losses.

In addition, a large number of Latin American people poured into the United States from the US-Mexico border, which brought a great impact to the United States.

Of course, for the Pentagon, they only need to do one thing, that is to prevent Congress from further reducing US military spending, preferably to increase US military spending to $200 billion or even $300 billion.

To achieve this, there needs to be an excuse, an excuse that makes the congressional masters feel a huge crisis.

But now, the Pentagon cannot reach a consensus, let alone make a fuss.

I don’t know how many people hate Clinton and others in their hearts, which really gives them a huge trouble.

Cutting off someone’s money is like killing their parents.

US military spending is not only military spending, but also a business.

Now this business is greatly affected.

This forces the Pentagon to import hundreds of millions of bullets of various types from the East every year for training.

Even in order to ensure that the money is in place, it has to import a batch of guns, bullets, and shells from the East.

Because if it is based on the prices of US military industrial enterprises, no one will make any money.

But this is not a long-term solution, and the money still has to fall into your own pocket as much as possible.

In recent years, the import of firearms and bullets from Panshan Group has been increasing, which has actually made American military enterprises dissatisfied. After all, the money should have been earned by them, but Panshan Group snatched it from the tiger's mouth.

Moreover, Panshan Group not only received orders from the Pentagon, but also its firearms are also very popular among the people in the American market, which undoubtedly snatched many orders from military enterprises and affected their interests.