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Originally Posted by Winsor_Pilates
The US doesn't actually care about our military; the frustration is fake.
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I don't think that's entirely it, here's the thing about Trump, I think he's an isolationist chickenhawk and he always wants someone else to pay for what he wants...
He said he'd build a wall and have Mexico pay for it, he sold Tariffs as other countries paying for tax cuts (untrue but that was one of the propaganda lines he put out), rumblings about him wanting to jackboot other countries into basically financing US debt relief, getting pissy about companies passing on tariff costs to customers and putting tariff charges on bills of sale, etc. etc...
I think this is just an extension of that. I don't think he wants us (and others) to spend more on the military, I think what he actually wants is for the U.S. to spend less without having to suffer any consequences of doing so. Trump isn't a chess player, he can't think three moves ahead and see how this is actually bad for U.S. global hegemony.