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Originally Posted by Mr.Coffee
Nobody seems to be able to answer the question of why spending has to be delayed and any articles I found, it doesn’t seem like any journalists asked the question or write about the why that is.
Which leads me to think it’s baloney.
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I think the answer is they could just throw an extra $15 billion at defence or whatever, but in order to do it in a way that makes sense rather than just saying, "we'd like to place an order for $15 billion in new fighter jets ASAP, thanks", it takes some time to ramp up. Like, part of that increase in spending is going to be on people in a whole bunch of different roles, which takes time to recruit and train those people and place them within the military infrastructure in a manner that actually helps achieve defense objectives.
I mean they could meet the obligation immediately by just saying, "I'd like to buy 1 new standard issue rifle, please, and I'd like to pay 15 billion dollars for it", but that would be extremely dumb.