Source: Jun Zhengping Studio, Chinese military horn
The country with the highest military spending in the world has increased its military spending again. Recently, U.S. President Joe Biden signed the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2024. According to the budget, the United States will allocate $886 billion in fiscal year 2024 for various types of military spending, an increase of nearly $30 billion from the previous fiscal year and a record high.
What is the concept of $886 billion? In this regard, a spokesman for the Department of Defense said: "The United States ranks first among the major countries in the world in defense spending, higher than the military spending of the next nine countries combined, and accounts for about 40 percent of the world's total military spending. In other words, the United States, with 4% of the world's population, spends 40% of the world's military spending, which is really surprising.
It stands to reason that such an astronomical amount of huge military spending should be backed by a strong financial foundation. However, what is interesting is that the current US national debt is high, which has exceeded 30 trillion US dollars, and the livelihood of the domestic people is also difficult. However, despite this, US politicians are still full of political calculations, tearing down the "east wall" of people's livelihood and supplementing the "west wall" of force, and insisting on maintaining their strong military image. Some netizens commented, "There is money to engage in arms, but there is no money to improve people's livelihood, this is the deformed status quo of American-style democracy." I wonder if such a military expansion by the United States is a "wise" choice or a stupid risk when the country's economic situation is not optimistic?
It's a pity that the play hasn't been staged yet, and people already know the plot. There is no doubt that this time the US bill is still repeating the same old tune. For the United States, which is Xi of "creating enemies even if there is no enemy," the "Chinese military threat" has naturally become an excellent excuse for increasing its military spending. The funny thing is that the US military spending is nearly 4 times that of China, so it is worth asking, who is the threat to whom?
There is an old Chinese saying: "There is nothing in the world, and mediocrity disturbs itself." "In fact, from a geographical point of view, the United States is surrounded by two oceans in the east and west, and there are no competitors in the north and south, so it should be the most secure country. But the United States is trapped in a "persecution paranoia" from which it cannot extricate itself. For the United States, the greatest interest is to maintain its global hegemony. For the sake of this so-called "great" goal, they can do whatever it takes. "Desperate militarism" is written in the genes of the United States. According to statistics, since World War II, about 80% of the armed conflicts in the world have been initiated by the United States. Under the bandit logic of "either obey the orders of the United States or be messed up by the United States," the United States is fanning the flames everywhere and stirring up trouble. Whether it is the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Libya, Syria, Iraq, or Afghanistan, everywhere the US war machine goes, it is full of smoke and devastation. In the past two years, the Ukraine crisis and the Palestinian-Israeli conflict have also been fueled by the United States. In the 2024 fiscal year of the U.S. defense budget, the United States has set aside $800 million to aid Ukraine, continuing its usual behavior of adding fuel to the fire.
Facts have proven that the United States is the "fundamental source of chaos" in the international order, the "behind-the-scenes" operator of world turmoil, and the "biggest saboteur" of regional peace and stability. It is said that a big country must have the bearing and demeanor of a great power, but the United States is not. Those high-ranking officials and politicians do not see China's development and are not accustomed to the growth of China's armed forces, so they jump out from time to time to hype up the so-called "Chinese military threat." This kind of sick psychology is incurable and frightening. As the spokesman of the Ministry of National Defense refuted: "We demand that the US side abandon the outdated old security concept and the Cold War mentality of zero-sum game, and view China and China's military development in an objective and rational manner, so as not to fall into the myth of hegemony and find it difficult to extricate itself." ”
In addition, it should be emphasized that the US "National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2024" mentions that it will "fully arm Taiwan's armed forces" and enhance Taiwan's "self-defense capability". The word "comprehensive" fully shows that the United States has not only not given up its intention of using the Taiwan Strait issue to confront China, but has intensified its efforts in the hope of speeding up the process of cultivating Taiwan into a "war proxy" in its China strategy. Again, the Taiwan issue is purely China's internal affair, which brooks no foreign interference, and "using Taiwan to contain China" is doomed to failure, and "seeking independence by force" is a dead end.
The political system of the country is like the body of a person, and health and self-confidence show grace and generosity, and hysteria is often a hidden disease. The United States should understand that in today's world, no country can base its absolute security on the absolute insecurity of other countries. There is an old Chinese saying, "Although the old country is big, the belligerent will perish." In the long course of history, there have been countless major countries that have been crushed by heavy military spending. If the United States still insists on creating an imaginary enemy, ignores the legitimate security concerns of other countries, and goes further and further down the road of seeking, maintaining, and abusing hegemony, it will be the United States itself that will eventually be dragged down.
(Produced by Jun Zhengping Studio, China Military Trumpet)