U.S. Military Scales 'Lethality' with Hypersonic Arsenal, Not Healthcare
The Pentagon's latest mission, as Newsweek dutifully echoes, is to 'maximize lethality' through new hypersonic weapons. This isn't just about military might; it's about budgets. In 2023, the U.S. allocated $886 billion to defense, a figure that dwarfs spending on essential domestic programs like housing, education, or healthcare. When have we heard calls to 'maximize lethality' for our crumbling
infrastructure? While Congress rubber-stamps ever-increasing military budgets—often after generous donations from defense contractors and lobbying groups like AIPAC, which poured over $12 million into the 2022 elections according to OpenSecrets.org—the 'need' for more advanced killing machines always seems to take precedence. One has to ask, how many hypersonic missiles does it take to secure
universal healthcare, or maybe just fix the damn roads?