Dear Patriot,

Over the next few months, the U.S. Congress will work to pass a MASSIVE $1.5 TRILLION defense budget . . . the biggest increase in history.

As I point out in my column below, the proposal is being defended by “Secretary of War” Pete Hegseth as a “fiscally responsible investment.”

This massively irresponsible transfer of wealth from struggling citizens to the well-connected Beltway elite is being pushed by individuals and media outlets owned or funded by giant corporations with close ties to military contractors.

And what do we get for the most expensive military on earth – larger than the combined militaries of the next dozen or so countries? Not much. For instance, Iran’s military budget is less than one percent of ours, yet Iran destroyed or disabled every U.S. military base in the Middle East.

This outrageous spending was never about protecting the United States. It is about protecting the ever-growing bank accounts of the special interests at the expense of the rest of us. It needs to stop. Now.

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For Liberty,

Ron Paul
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A $1.5 Trillion Military Budget is a Gift to the Grifters

Last week “Secretary of War” Pete Hegseth insulted Americans by claiming that a 50 percent increase in the U.S. military budget – from an incomprehensible one trillion dollars to an impossible one and a half trillion – was a “fiscally responsible investment.”

“Thanks to President Trump’s $1.5 trillion defense budget, this War Department has moved from bureaucracy to business,” he said last Thursday.In a way he was right, though. The huge increase is much more about “business” than what is needed to protect the United States from potential invasion.

But it isn’t the kind of “business” that most supporters of free markets would applaud. On the contrary, this is the business of transferring massive amounts of wealth from the struggling middle and working classes to the well-connected Beltway elite based on lies and scare tactics.

The U.S. mainstream media is crucial in manufacturing the fairy tale that if we don’t mortgage our children’s and grandchildren’s future to finance this obscene military budget, we will be attacked or invaded by some evil foreign power.

It’s not difficult to do a little research and see why the mainstream – and even some “independent” – media outlets push these scare tactics: they are owned or funded by giant corporations with close ties to military contractors.

This unhealthy relationship is known as “corporatism” – the intermingling of pseudo-private companies with the government. It is the precursor to actual fascism, where the government takes a stake in such companies.

We’re getting there faster than most Americans understand.

The whole scam is not about protecting the citizens of the United States. It’s about protecting the U.S. empire overseas, which actually harms the citizens of the United States.

Yes, they rob us to fund their empire and lie to us that it keeps us safe. Nothing could be further from the truth. Our constant military interventions on virtually every continent of the globe only build resentment among the rest of the world’s population. Anyone who thinks people overseas welcome U.S. bombs has been watching too much Fox News or reading too much Washington Post.

And what do we get for the most expensive military on earth – larger than the combined militaries of the next dozen or so countries? Not much. Iran’s military budget is less than one percent of ours, yet Iran destroyed or disabled every U.S. military base in the Middle East.
It turns out that Iran has destroyed dozens of multi-million dollar U.S. spy drones – and several near-billion dollar spy radar stations – with their own drones costing mere thousands of dollars each.

The U.S. surprise attack was supposed to make Iran cower and beg for mercy, but it did the opposite: it showed that despite the trillions extorted from Americans for the most expensive military on earth, the U.S. military can no longer win the wars that U.S. presidents illegally force them into fighting.

The U.S. military continues to fight World War II – with massively expensive aircraft carriers that do not dare get close to combat – while warfighting has evolved into something entirely different.

The only good thing about the Iran war is that it demonstrates how much the special interests have lied to us about the need to continue our suicidal military spending increases.

It was never about protecting the United States. It is about protecting the ever-growing bank accounts of the special interests at the expense of the rest of us. It needs to stop. Now.
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