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Rise of Kings : Endless War free8/29/2023 rots, morally, politically, economically, and physically, while China, Russia, Saudi Arabia, India, and other countries extract themselves from the tyranny of the U.S. We are paying a heavy social, political, and economic cost for our militarism. We spent more on the military, $ 813 billion for fiscal year 2023, than the next nine countries, including China and Russia, combined. Servicing this debt costs $300 billion a year. The monopolization of capital by the military has driven the US debt to $ 30 trillion, $ 6 trillion more than the US GDP of $ 24 trillion. The permanent war economy, implanted since the end of World War II, has destroyed the private economy, bankrupted the nation, and squandered trillions of dollars of taxpayer money. The opposition to permanent war should have come from the tiny progressive wing of the Democratic Party, which unfortunately sold out to the craven Democratic Party leadership to save their political careers. No respite from gas prices that are projected to hit $6 a gallon. No minimum wage of $15 an hour to counter 44 years of wage stagnation. No help for the 100,000 Americans who die each year of drug overdoses. No rational gun control or curbing of the epidemic of nihilistic violence and mass shootings. No program to feed the 17 million children who go to bed each night hungry. No forgiveness of $1.7 trillion in student debt. No infrastructure programs to repair decaying roads and bridges, which require $ 41.8 billion to fix the 43,586 structurally deficient bridges, on average 68 years old. The United States, as the near unanimous vote to provide nearly $40 billion in aid to Ukraine illustrates, is trapped in the death spiral of unchecked militarism.
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