The rise of a great power: starting with military industry

Chapter 951: US military’s backlash?
In the past few years, the U.S. Navy has seen funding cuts of 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 was living a tight life, with complaints from all levels of the navy and the shipyards complaining even more.

In the past, the US military was accustomed to spending lavishly and lived a very lavish life. The most developed areas near US military bases were not restaurants, but red-light districts.

The red-light districts near all US military bases around the world are the most developed red-light districts in their respective countries.

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

But now they can no longer enjoy themselves so freely, as many military benefits have been cut.

America's military-industrial enterprises are having an even harder time, with their stock prices continuing to fall. Although the United States exports aircraft, tanks, cannons and warships to its allies, these exports are completely unable to make up for the losses of its military-industrial enterprises.

The most frightening thing is that the US government is now mainly focused on economic development, so military spending will continue to show a downward trend.

Now in the United States, a voice has emerged that makes the U.S. military and military-industrial enterprises shudder, and that is to reduce the U.S. military budget to below 500 billion U.S. dollars.

Because even if the US military spending drops to 500 billion US dollars, the US military expenditure will still be the highest in the world.

The United States is now arguing fiercely over whether to cut or increase military spending.

Some people think that military spending should be cut. After all, the total amount of U.S. debt has been reduced in recent years, but the total amount is still very large, and the interest to be paid each year is not small. The United States raised interest rates to double digits that year, and now all debts have to be repaid. There is nothing major at the moment, and the focus should be on developing the economy and reducing the debt.

Some people believe that military spending should be increased because the United States is facing more and more challenges and must have a strong military to maintain its interests and units.

And from 1962 to now, when has the US military expenditure been less than 500 billion US dollars?
Not to mention how much the US dollar has depreciated. The purchasing power of the US dollar now is far less than that of the US dollar in 1962.

Some experts have even criticized the current US government's practice of cutting military spending, believing that the US is weakening its own military.

The current situation facing the United States is not very good. The United States has no military bases in the South Asian subcontinent, 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. However, with the excavation of the Kra Canal, this influence is bound to be weakened. The relationship with the Philippines has encountered some problems, 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 its fulcrum, but the unprecedented unity of Arab countries and the Arab coalition have given Arab countries tremendous confidence and courage, so much so that now the oil-dollar relationship is somewhat unstable, which is why the United States does not dare to issue bonds at will.

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

What makes the United States even more unhappy is that Europe is moving from the European Community to the European Union, constantly advancing integration, and is now launching the European single currency - the euro.

It's not that the United States hasn't made a fuss about this in an attempt to prevent the birth of the euro. After all, if the whole of Europe is truly integrated, its strength will be no less than that of the United States, or even stronger than that of the United States.

In recent years, Europe and polar bears have been getting closer and closer, which makes Americans hate it.

The polar bears are not dead yet. In the eyes of Americans, the polar bears, with their vast territory and rich resources, should be dismembered into forty or fifty countries.

If the polar bear integrates with Europe, the United States will have to stay on the world island.

The Americans learned their diplomatic strategy from the British, adopting the offshore island balance diplomatic strategy, which means that the Eurasian continent must not be peaceful and must be stirred up 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 artist, they all ended up in failure.

But the bad thing now is that Europe is gradually moving towards integration, and even a timetable for the birth of the euro has been given. Europe is getting closer and closer to the polar bear.

Next is China. Even according to the GDP data released by China, China's total GDP last year reached 2.8 trillion yuan, equivalent to 7000 billion US dollars, which ranks eighth in the world.

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

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

As for the United States, there is now instability in Latin America. Latin America has only enjoyed good times for a few years, but it has become complacent and even has forces opposing the United States.

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

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

Furthermore, a large number of people from Latin America have poured into the United States from the US-Mexico border, bringing a great impact to the United States.

Of course, for the Pentagon, there is only one thing they need to do, which is to prevent Congress from further cutting US military spending, preferably to increase US military spending to $2000 billion or even $3000 billion.

To achieve this, we need an excuse, an excuse that will make the congressmen feel a huge crisis.

But now, there is no consensus within the Pentagon, let alone making a fuss about it.

I don't know how many people hate Clinton and others with gnashing teeth in their hearts. This really causes them great trouble.

Cutting off someone's money is like killing one's parents.

U.S. military spending is not just military spending, it is also a business.

This business is now greatly affected.

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

In order to ensure that the money was in place, they even had to import a batch of guns, bullets and artillery shells from the East.

Because if we follow the prices set by American military-industrial enterprises, no one will make any profit.

But this is not a long-term solution, and you still have to put as much money as possible into your own pocket.

In recent years, the import of firearms and bullets from Panshan Group has been increasing, which has actually made domestic military-industrial enterprises in the United States dissatisfied. After all, the money should have been earned by them, but Panshan Group snatched it away from them.

Moreover, Panshan Group not only received orders from the Pentagon, but its firearms were also very popular among the people in the U.S. market. This undoubtedly snatched orders from many military-industrial enterprises and affected their interests.

(End of this chapter)