Why NATO Weapons Are Way Overpriced

by Alex Christoforou, The Duran:

The war in Ukraine is being fought on NATO’s (the U.S.) side with NATO weapons and ammunition, and on Russia’s side with Russian weapons and ammunition. The majority of commentators say that, thus far, Russia has the advantage. No one is blaming Ukraine’s soldiers for this. On the NATO side, there is silence about whether its weaponry and ammunition are performing less effectively than Russia’s weaponry and ammunition — which cost far less.

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The U.S. Government alone spends annually over $1.5 trillion on its military but hides much of that spending by paying for it in other federal Departments than the “Defense Department” so that the public won’t know that over half of all spending that the U.S. Government (President and Congress) authorize each year goes actually to its military — only less than half of it goes to pay for education, healthcare, and the other necessary goods and services to the benefit of the nation’s domestic population, America’s citizenry. It is a military operation, even more than it is an operation to serve the citizenry. That’s a fact, not an opinion, about the U.S. Government — but it is a hidden fact (as that link above documents to be true).

The official U.S. Government spending on its military is only what is being paid out of its Defense Department, which is now around $900 billion per year (vastly more than any other nation’s). However, over $600 billion more per year is spent, each year, on America’s military, that’s not being counted in the official ‘defense’ (actually aggression) figure (over and above that $900B amount). No other country except possibly China now (in order to prepare for war with the U.S. so as to prevent a U.S. take-over of China’s Taiwan Province) hides its excessive military spending this way, because none needs to — none is so fat with sheer corruption in its military. Even America’s colonies, such as England, Germany, France, Italy and the rest of NATO, aren’t that corrupt.

The U.S. population are gifted with a perfect national-security situation of more than 3,000 miles of ocean separating them from potential attack by a foreign power, plus only two bordering nations, both of which (Mexico and Canada) are on friendly terms with the U.S. Government. On any rational consideration, therefore, America’s need for national-security expenditures isn’t $1.5T per year but at most only $100B ($100 billion) per year. All the rest, above that sum, is imperial expense, in order to control the entire world for the benefit of its billionaires who control international corporations and who own controlling interests in the giant ‘defense’ firms (which receive the profits from this $1.5T+ of governmental spending each year. Plus, they control the media. So: they also control — (provide most of the political-campaign ‘donations’ (investments) — in order to dominate in the funding of political campaigns. Winning in American politics is simply getting the most money from the billionaires to fool the voters to vote for you.) They call that ‘democracy’. And the most profitable side of it, after the Soviet Union ended in 1991 and there was no longer any real need for it, is the massive armaments industry. Consequently, America’s approximately $1.4T excess military spending per year has now built up a $35T federal debt, which will have to be paid off by future generations of U.S. ‘citizens’ (subjects). But, for the billionaires, it’s enormously profitable, and so it keeps on building.

A look at the world’s “TOP 100 Defense Companies” shows that 6 are in U.S (Lockheed, RTX Raytheon, Northrop, Boeing, General Dynamics, and L3Harris), 3 are in China, and 1 is in England. 43 of the remaining 90 are also in U.S. Therefore, 49 of the top 100 are in America. This is what comes from being a country that spends over $1.5 trillion annually on its military.

How exceptional is this? Astoundingly: The SIPRI or Stockholm International Peace Research Institute annual military-expense rankings, show U.S. as #1 in 2023 spending, at $916 billion (SIPRI ignores the U.S. military spending that’s outside of the official Defense Department), and then #2 China at “[296]” where the brackets mean “estimated” and so that it’s $296B ‘estimated’; and they show #3 Russia at “[109]” or estimated $109B/year. Those dollar-figures are “US dollars, at current prices and exchange rates” and are NOT at Purchasing Power Parity, which would have indicated far more accurately for international comparison purposes. However, nonetheless, China’s GDP (without any adjustment for PPP) “was 126,058.2 billion yuan in 2023”; and if China that year spent on its military $296B that year, when China’s GDP was around $17.75T, then that $296B would have been one-sixtieth, 1/60, times China’s GDP that year; it would have been 1.7% of the nation’s total output. By contrast, America’s (actual) at least $1.5T military spending is the military portion from a U.S. GDP of $27.36T, or 5.5% of U.S. total output during 2023. (Though China has higher GDP PPP per year than America, it still has lower unadjusted GDP per year than America.) America’s 5.5% that goes to its military is almost entirely wasted since the country’s appropriate military expenses would be only around $100B/year, but China’s estimated 1.7% of its national output that goes toward its military when the U.S. is trying to grab from China its Taiwan Province, might be far short of being what is actually needed.

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