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‘The United States cannot afford this much longer’

The United States needs to fundamentally rebalance its relationship with the Gulf region because of financial reality, according to Mark Kimmitt, former US assistant secretary of state for political-military affairs.

“Candidly, the United States cannot afford this much longer,” Kimmitt told Al Jazeera. He pointed to what economist Niall Ferguson has called the Ferguson Rule the point at which a country’s defence budget is exceeded by its national debt payments. “That is the end of the empire. We hit that two years ago. And when the Department of Defense is now proposing a $1.5 trillion defence budget, that will only widen that gap further.”

Really? The guy who bombed a wedding is your expert on military spending?

The "financial reality" is that 921 is more than 251.

The US is not an empire. As of now we're only threatening regimes that are are already PRC puppet states. Cuba, Venezuela, Iran, Greenland, and Canada had no sovereignty to begin with. It's the communists who have imperialist motives.

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1 sat \ 28 replies \ @Solomonsatoshi 12 May -100 sats

Trump, Hegseth and their Zionist sidekicks bombed a girls school.
Bibis puppets are incompetent.
The Hormiz is the US empires Suez crisis.
End of the USD petrodollar.

USA spends more on debt servicing (to Zionist war criminals) than it does on its military.
It's a dying empire.

China has annual and growing $1trillion trade surpluses- the US empire has not had a trade or fiscal surplus since 1969.

https://m.stacker.news/140909

https://m.stacker.news/140911