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by 1cvmask 1843 days ago
The defense budget is in fact over 1.25 trillion dollars in real terms. We just don’t count it like most other countries. For example nuclear weapons are under the Department of Energy.

https://www.pogo.org/analysis/2019/05/making-sense-of-the-1-...

https://tomdispatch.com/hartung-and-smithberger-a-dollar-by-...

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Yeah, but a vast amount of healthcare is under the DoD in America while it wouldn’t be in other countries.