Joe’s 2025 DOD Budget Didn’t Work in 1939

Biden’s 4th consecutive cost cutting defense budget doesn’t even cover his inflationary economy's tab & now disturbingly mirrors 1939 before the blitzkrieg rather than today’s military threats from China, Russia & Iran?  POTUS malpractice?

The WSJ suggests as much. How soon we forget how President Reagan’s military BUILD UP rather than woke Joe’s STAND DOWN all over this increasingly dangerous world is the subtext of the paper’s “A Clarion Call for Rearmament.” The op ed is based on Sen. Roger Wicker’s Armed Services Cte & concludes: “President Biden’s greatest abdication has been his willingness to let US defenses erode even as American adversaries are on the march.” Not that the editorial board doesn’t also call out “Too many Republicans, including Donald Trump,” who they argue “have acquiesced in their silence.” Yet, the editors saw hope in Senator Wicker, “a political leader [who] gets honest about declining US power.”

According to Sen. Wicker’s referenced committee report, the US needs to at least return to spending 5% of the economy just to keep pace with the above-mentioned Axis of Evil. He proposes an additional $55 billion for the Pentagon in 2025 for a total of $950 billion as part of a new “generational investment” ala Reagan’s forced march on communist USSR & responsible for the end of the Cold War. That is, btw, LESS than the TRILLION dollars in no results green energy subsidies now on the block. Even then, it’ll take some doing to garner the same results as Reagan, the WSJ suggested. In an earlier editorial, the editors warned of “Iran’s Brisk Walk to a Nuclear Bomb” on Joe’s sleepy do nothing watch. Now they’re noting how “China is providing Russia with enough smokeless powder to produce 80 million rounds of ammunition” while Putin is “returning the favor with joint naval patrols in the Pacific.” Mr. Trump says he’s all about “winning”? If so, the WSJ says, now’s his chance to prove it by making the military field of battle a campaign priority.

Davd Soul