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@BabaBooey99
3 сағат бұрын
Chu papi Muñeño
@lorenzoblum868
3 сағат бұрын
Hello Johnny. Long time subscriber here. I've written a few comments about the military industrial complex in the past and they systematically get erased. Any idea why?
@Abdijaliil
3 сағат бұрын
Another subscription! Pain in the neck!
@bdcopp
3 сағат бұрын
This is a good video. There are a few points you missed, though. Firstly, lots of the flaws in government procurement come from the relative lack of experience or skill of the government civil servants. This is due to the fact that the best ones will routinely get hired by the private sector for significantly higher salaries. This leaves the government without the technical expertise to properly write technical specifications for contracts. Or the ability to hold the private sector to account.
@CelataForCongress
3 сағат бұрын
Johnny, please help the movement. It's time to stop electing the rich and well connected and START electing working class Americans. But we cannot do it alone.
@RafaelW8
4 сағат бұрын
"Why does the US spend so much on its military?" In before Johnny changes the title 99 times.
@nifech
4 сағат бұрын
I’ve already seen 2 thumbnails in the first 15 minutes
@fredericoespinoza
4 сағат бұрын
just saw the thumbnail change
@kaseywahl
4 сағат бұрын
"You won't believe what the US spends most of its military budget on" --calling the next title
@lucasetten
3 сағат бұрын
It’s because his videos are not very good.
@adamwing7132
3 сағат бұрын
@@lucasettenokay bud go take a time out
@SApilot11123
4 сағат бұрын
Ain't called the "military industrial complex" for nothing
@jamesklusener
3 сағат бұрын
like
@kennyking9667
3 сағат бұрын
do a video on biafra
@dodododododododo8216
3 сағат бұрын
Eisenhower called it "military industrial congressional complex". But then removed the "congressional" term because congressmen would be upset.
@happymelon7129
3 сағат бұрын
More than 60 years after Eisenhower identified the problem and gave it a name : ---> M1C
@happymelon7129
3 сағат бұрын
continues to use its unprecedented influence to corrupt budget and policy processes, starve funding for non-military solutions to security problems
@expandedhistory
4 сағат бұрын
Free healthcare? You spelled Hellfire Missile wrong, triple the defense budget.
@sashimi3478
3 сағат бұрын
Nah, I'd dive.
@CamiloSanchez1979
3 сағат бұрын
You misspelled money for the executives at Lockheed, Raytheon, and Boeing
@skyrailmaxima
3 сағат бұрын
@@CamiloSanchez1979as opposed to Pfizer Bayer J&J Merck and Eli Lilly who would do the same but already account for an inflationary huge amount of cash? Government spending just isn't the solution to either of these problems. Europhiles ignore the deficit spending in those countries, and only see a single image in time, not the direction they're going (pop collapse and overregulation decoupling innovation causing them to use countries that enslave their people for supplies). Warphiles just want to rule the globe and don't mind sacrificing well being of normal people to do it. Taxing and inflating the cash away. I dont want either but no one want to work with me because I wont give them their pretty shiny bauble, so instead we get war and endless spending into the moneypit
@StroalOutdoors
2 сағат бұрын
The military budget wouldn't last a year funding healthcare. Medicare and Medicare budget alone are 1.7 Trillion dollars. The majority of our federal spending (around 58%) is benefit programs.
@sunseeds4817
2 сағат бұрын
In some sense (aka irony and sarcasm) I have to say North Korea has been the most fashionable in this trend for so long, sadly the rest of the world has just seen its brilliance.
@fakrul7004
3 сағат бұрын
Whenever I watch documentaries about issues in the U.S., there are a few topics that come up again and again: student loans, high medical costs, and homelessness. It makes me wonder-if just a portion of the military budget was allocated to these areas, could things like education and healthcare become more affordable, or even free?
@egdapo
3 сағат бұрын
They could absolutely fund and end all those issues you mention and the US would STILL be the top spender in the world on its military budget. This is how ridiculously bloated their spending is.
@KaloyanKasabov
3 сағат бұрын
@@egdapo except you forget that the main reason why everything costs so much is because people get paid to make it, unlike in the countries that consider themselves your opponents. Russia can make way more with a billion dollars than you cuz they don't need to pay as high a wages
@Meandbroafter2
3 сағат бұрын
I read a sarcastic tweet saying "We are not $20 trillion in debt to come in 2nd place"..... Not even year has passed and its 35 trillion now
@creeib
4 сағат бұрын
800 Billion dollars on defence. That is about $100 for every person on the planet.
@randomguy7175
3 сағат бұрын
Imagine per citizen
@TOSikSiTkO
2 сағат бұрын
$=paper What about natural resources, human time,
@kellyprice8246
4 сағат бұрын
Correction at 10:08. The "world wide web" was not developed by the US military, but at CERN by Tim Berners-Lee, a British scientist. The ARPANET, which is the precursor to the internet was developed by the Advanced Research Projects Agency of the US Department of Defense.
@alanj3586
3 сағат бұрын
That is true
@sashimi3478
3 сағат бұрын
Yeahhhh it was kind of inaccurate, he should have just added the "predecessor" part
@danielabbey7726
3 сағат бұрын
Excellent point. The general public always conflates the two.
@ganthunie
3 сағат бұрын
The contractors is what infuriated me when I was in. Seeing the prices of simple things like gaskets, pencils, buckets go for extremely inflated prices. In order to order elsewhere you had to jump through several hoops to SAVE MONEY for SAME THING. A lot of these other things you can argue are a benifit to US as a whole. Overpaying greedy companies for cheap product is indefensible.
@epmoli
4 сағат бұрын
Bringing "democracy" and "rules based order" to "oppressed people" who are threatened by "weapons of mass destruction" is not cheap.
@fullcirclehistory
4 сағат бұрын
This is actually the case in Europe South Korea and Taiwan
@itzhexen0
4 сағат бұрын
But it could be with AI.
@d.b.cooper1
4 сағат бұрын
All whilst democracy at home is on its last legs. We need to accept demoracy the way we want it is not a '1 fit all solution' & has time & time again been proven to flop. Then again, a skeptic would say that was the plan all along. Keep the rest down & in your full control. Funny thing is war always unites, hence why going to war with China/Iran is needed for them to save themselves...from themselves.
@faenethlorhalien
3 сағат бұрын
Democracy is something a society has to develop when it's ready for it, by themselves. Not something you can impose. America spreading democracy via bombings is stupid and has never worked. Closest case to working? Japan, and, believe me, as I have lived there for over 20 years, it's a democracy in name only. Very much a flawed one, a far cry from actual democracies, like Europe's or the USA or Canada's ones. It has NEVER EVER WORKED.
@smallbutdeadly931
3 сағат бұрын
It is what we need in order to bring managed democracy to the automatons and terminids.
@tj_mora
4 сағат бұрын
You know what's crazy? That $916B is just 3.4% of the US GDP. There are 15 or so countries like Saudi Arabia, UAE, Morocco, Singapore, Armenia, Pakistan and Cambodia that spends more on defense GDP percentage-wise than the US. Just goes to show how large the economy truly is.
@Lostcyborg
4 сағат бұрын
Murray Rothbard is rolling over in his grave. GDP growth is just an illusion.
@samaelssx
4 сағат бұрын
GDP and gov budget is two separate thing
@centurymemes1208
3 сағат бұрын
and the aid on ukraine is barely a scratch 😂😂😂 who knows if the US went full support
@RichardGeresGerbil
3 сағат бұрын
Sort of it's 35 trillion in debt so it's running on credit
@PeterLamin-pi6rv
3 сағат бұрын
@@RichardGeresGerbilwho does the USA owe the debt to?😂😂😂
@kwanziquadrillion525
4 сағат бұрын
The US is says NO to universal health but YES to more weapons, funding of wars, regime interferences
@johnharris3335
3 сағат бұрын
Because politicians get rich
@alexharper7645
3 сағат бұрын
Universal health is a slippery slope. I think having the option for both private and public health care like we have now is the best.
@odyx0
3 сағат бұрын
@alexharper7645 you have no idea what you're talking about some of the countries with the best health care have universal health care and in some countries its even free. US has some of the worst policies for health care in the entire world.
@gorgonbert
3 сағат бұрын
The problem is not really more weapons. The military industrial complex actually delivers less weapons and ammunitions, it’s just that every piece is much much much more expensive nowadays. The Ammunition stores are surprisingly empty for example. The military isn’t getting their money’s worth.
@jackuno
3 сағат бұрын
@@alexharper7645 It's not either or. In almost all countries with universal health care you have the option to go to private hospitals and clinics.
@theanonymouschicken169
3 сағат бұрын
With 190 Billion in R&D. Every year, and you telling me they still haven’t built iron man suits or Gundams.
@r3dpowel796
3 сағат бұрын
R and D is a convinient tools to steal money.
@dylanegan9398
3 сағат бұрын
Gundams would be sick
@andytc4840
4 сағат бұрын
In the UK we have a concept that Military + Healthcare = X where X is constant. For the first time since WW2 the total of these two is increasing (rather than military decreasing and healthcare increasing)
@Freiheit1232
3 сағат бұрын
Why does the US not break up the monopoly/oligopoly of defense contractors?
@KaloyanKasabov
3 сағат бұрын
Cuz it can't. Lobbying and the fact that it will limit the capabilities of the contractors will be the reason. There used to be more contractors during the cold war, but after the USSR collapsed, some were bought, others went to hell and you might end up worse more than if the monopolies were still in place. Only proper solution would be to have an environment akin to the 30s and 40s, so as to rebuild what was lost, forcing the giants to compete, but lobbying and lack of civilian understanding hampers such a process
@smegheadprime
3 сағат бұрын
Because the government is the one that encouraged them to consolidate in the first place. After the coldwar ended the Pentagon had what they called "the last supper", where they gathered the heads of all the defense contractors and told them procurement spending was going to be cut and they needed to consolidate. So they did. But then the war on terror happened and military spending went up instead of down and now there was no competition in defense system production so the could charge what they wanted. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Supper_(Defense_industry)
@Freiheit1232
3 сағат бұрын
I wish there was a group, not affiliated with a political party, who would get elected to the senate as citizens who want to change the rules so the senate cant invest in defense contractors and set term limits.
@sickomode6440
4 сағат бұрын
Short Answer: To keep the Military Industrial Complex running.
@CrimsonAlchemist
3 сағат бұрын
And make the rich richer, employment comes last
@Freiheit1232
3 сағат бұрын
Johnny, can you turn this into a series? Point out these politicians on the take from defense contractors. Citizens can change that and hopefully change this situation.
@strayedarticle2838
3 сағат бұрын
I'd like to see that. He could also cover the environmental impact of the military, for the benefit of all the Democrats lately calling for more war.
@RoyD_S
3 сағат бұрын
@@strayedarticle2838 Calling for more war? who said that? genuinely curious.
@shakir4969
2 сағат бұрын
hint:all of them
@wenterinfaer1656
3 сағат бұрын
With the budget so immense, it's hard to keep track of money flow. Generals know this and pocket a few nickels every now and then to afford a villa. But don't forget, it's all for America's security.
@ericjiang1045
4 сағат бұрын
The biggest bully in school says he bully because he’s getting bullied. 😂
@kimberlywaldrop5959
3 сағат бұрын
Bingo
@Hokie11
3 сағат бұрын
Half of our *discretionary* spending goes towards the military, not half of the total budget. Your graphic was correct but the way you said it is very misleading. The total we spend on our military is 13% when taking into account the total budget, not half.
@StroalOutdoors
2 сағат бұрын
Yeah it's misleading for sure.
@veitforabetterworld
4 сағат бұрын
Military founding ✅ Healthcare system ❌
@username65585
4 сағат бұрын
US government spends more on health care than military.
@isaaccano9024
4 сағат бұрын
Recently got charged 3k for some xrays, while paying my insurance WEEKLY $200 for 15 months while employed. All that money down the drain, now I owe the hospital 3k and gave cigna over 10K. The US does not care about our health, it's capitalizing on a human right.
@0ned
4 сағат бұрын
Nah CDC is military 😮
@0ned
4 сағат бұрын
@@isaaccano9024because it's a grift Who never heard of an insurance racket did not grow up in the 20th Century
4 сағат бұрын
@isaaccano9024 as an European that is just wild to me. I had a knee and a shoulder surgery and if I was a US citizen I would be in depth until my 50s paying that shit
@Djk-cc2sr
4 сағат бұрын
There is nothing “transparent” about any government.
@SuperKendoman
3 сағат бұрын
Of course! There is no trust between any nation since things can change very quickly. The friends of today could be tomorrows enemy.
@cyberfunk3793
3 сағат бұрын
So what do you call it then, when they release info if not transparency? Do you think every government is like Russia and China?
@FunderDuck
3 сағат бұрын
I wonder how much the US spends on diplomacy.
@sergiom9958
3 сағат бұрын
Their MoD and economic sanctions are the best tools in their box.
@grapefruitsimmons
3 сағат бұрын
It aint cheap being the #1 exporter of terror and destruction.
@carsonw8223
3 сағат бұрын
The simplest answer is because it is easy for the US to do so (less than 4% of GDP), and it's in the interest of the US to maintain the international system that maximizes prosperity for all those committed to it. Contractors over charging is a problem, but it's not WHY the defense budget is so big. Other countries also experience budget efficiency problems, but the US defense budget is so big because the US economy is sooo dannng wealthy. If we fix the contractor issue, we won't spend less, we'll just get more for what we spend. Believe me
@sergiom9958
3 сағат бұрын
the US could be even richer if it had a responsible goverment, who doesnt play world empire, with its citizens keeping a constant eye on it. The US is rich because has enough natural resources; is a country that (used to at least) facilitates and encourages business; that attracks worlwide the best talented people; and used to have and stable and strong currency that has become world standard. Thats what became the US rich, and not its empire attitude; which BTW will probably be one of the main causes of its faults. Plus, what we are seeing is that since the boomers every US generation has been more poor although an ever increasing US DoD budget; where is the posperity you were talking about?
@carsonw8223
3 сағат бұрын
@@sergiom9958 actually the US defense budget shrank as a measure of GDP from the cold war to now (13% in korean war, 9% in vietnam, 3.5% now). So defense spending as a proportion of the economy has shark at the same time the disparity between cost of living and wages for US citizens increased. Your assumed correlation is wrong.
@carsonw8223
3 сағат бұрын
@@sergiom9958also, since you mentioned the US dollar as a global currency. That was actually a deliberate effort and part of what china and russia resent about the US hegemon (or empire as you incorrectly call it). They do not like that the US dollar is the global standard and they are actively working to undermine that and weaken the dollar
@KaloyanKasabov
3 сағат бұрын
@@sergiom9958 who doesn't play "would empire", you'd be nowhere near what you are now to what you were when this system was created by the people you elected, were it more for a system that made almost all of the trade in the world revolve around you
@michaelw5816
3 сағат бұрын
Another day, another bullshit-peddling video from Johnny Harris. To start: F-35 is expected to cost that amount, for the ENTIRE program, over the ENTIRE course of it's lifetime. That's a project running from 2006-2070. 64 years!! To present that stat in any context is borderline moronic as it doesn't mean anything and no other program is discussed in this way, without that context is just a flat out deliberate lie. Johnny knows the context of that stat, because apparently he's researched this, and has chosen to deliberately omit it. An F-35 is cheaper to buy today than an F-15 the USAF is procuring. The stinger price comparison also misses out critical contextual data that makes the entire point moot - this is an OLD system, that the US keeps in service despite having more modern versions. This missile isn't in production anymore. This means any time they require manufacturing, the entire supply chain needs to be rebuilt. The US doesn't buy enough of them to warrant keeping that supply chain around all year. Even if you had competition to build it, you'd have the same problem.
@sergiom9958
3 сағат бұрын
Dude; focus yourself on the idea and not on the small mistakes of someone who is not a military expert. Is it correct to expend such ammounts of money and to keep worldwide military presence to ensure US politics and plans are enforced where ever you want? Does it act on the best interest of the individual US citizen?
@PlayerBRUV
3 сағат бұрын
@@sergiom9958 He was just correcting a mistake. What you're asking has nothing to do with what he said, which is true.
@The-web-architect-0
3 сағат бұрын
Watch the full video first
@KaloyanKasabov
2 сағат бұрын
@@The-web-architect-0he's right on both of his points. They were not mentioned in the video
@eltullis
4 сағат бұрын
“War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people. Only a small "inside" group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many. Out of war a few people make huge fortunes.” Major General Smedley Butler
@Leftistattheparty
3 сағат бұрын
+
@jtprado
4 сағат бұрын
The price tag of ammo, weapons, etc. is INSANE.
@ViviendoElPincheSueno
4 сағат бұрын
My favorite journalist.
@WebWeev
4 сағат бұрын
He's an industry plant
@KalK-ym7cd
3 сағат бұрын
Never trust a journalist
@jps0117
3 сағат бұрын
@@KalK-ym7cd Trust 100 journalists?
@RoyD_S
3 сағат бұрын
@@KalK-ym7cd who do you trust then? Politicians?
@Rom2Serge
3 сағат бұрын
I believe he is secretly working with CIA or sort. Pretend to be in independent journalist but at same time subtlety pushing propagаndа narratives .
@giannakakis.christos
3 сағат бұрын
Dear Mr. Harris, congratulations on your outstanding journalistic work. As a European citizen, I am impressed by the ease with which you present facts and names. In European countries, the things you mention in your video would be enough to topple a government or, at the very least, end some individuals’ careers. In the U.S., are such disclosures legally acceptable, raising only questions of personal ethics for public figures? Also, it’s remarkable that you can speak so openly on KZitem. Do investigative journalists in the U.S. feel safe doing their work today?
@robertfoertsch
3 сағат бұрын
Excellent Analysis, Deployed Worldwide Through My Deep Learning AI Research Library. Thanks Johnny ❤
@YMTStudioX
4 сағат бұрын
All this funding but they still lost in Afghanistan
@jager898
4 сағат бұрын
militaries are meant to win wars, not occupy the country for 2 decades. The US won but lost when occupying.
@axiosschmidt6001
4 сағат бұрын
@@jager898 US saw that there was more money to be made if you prolong the conflict.
@GoodStuff1992
4 сағат бұрын
@jager898 you mean to win battles, not wars. the war is a mix of military, government and politics and the citizens
@Sean.Cordes
4 сағат бұрын
And Vietnam
@johnconstantinelegaspi2790
3 сағат бұрын
If the US wants to erase Afghanistan in an instant, they could.
@Athul-x8y
3 сағат бұрын
Love your hardworked maps and graph animation :)
@sagarpandeys
4 сағат бұрын
it's not cheap to bully the world.
@zachdave2994
4 сағат бұрын
- China builds islands in water that isn’t theirs and saves North Korea Yes please more cheap temu and tik tok
@fredericoespinoza
4 сағат бұрын
100%%%%%%%%%
@mrbfros454
4 сағат бұрын
Oh please… 😒🥱
@Feltsy
4 сағат бұрын
As China pays their people pennies, the price is high to live comfortably
@jps0117
3 сағат бұрын
It's not cheap to keep the world from bullying you.
@amanjhaxh8670
3 сағат бұрын
Does anyone remember that old meme “If NASA had budget of US military"💀💀💀
@morbidzombii
4 сағат бұрын
Short Answer: To feel dominate in foreign affairs, and to solve it’s insecurities of being number 1.
@jps0117
3 сағат бұрын
Someone or some country is always "dominant". I prefer the U.S. to be the one. If you want higher defense spending, hope for a multi-polar world.
@Inanabsuzia
3 сағат бұрын
My Healthcare bills has successful slept thanks for this
@FreeBird-ws2ye
4 сағат бұрын
Everyone please read Smedley Butler's War is A Racket book. It is one of the most thought provoking pieces of literatures out there. Even the opening phrases are so thought provoking it made me question over the conflicts are generally deemed moral. Its a must read.
@KaiHonsou
3 сағат бұрын
Trade is one of the big reasons why the US expands, among other things. The real issue with the US military budget to me is how self-serving it becomes, it would take something extraordinary to reign in spending, with even a small percentage that could go towards so many things that have a larger impact for the average US citizen.
@abbiebeast
4 сағат бұрын
The $ you posed does NOT cover "black-projects" which has funding outside congress and the amount is undisclosed.... it is estimated that annually that budget approximates the total of the known budget, so double the size of the bubble you illustrated to be accurate. However, it's not to say that the spending is efficient, but it is effective.
@paulbrungardt9823
2 сағат бұрын
Well one, Johnny ! I appreciate all the effort you put into these topics.
@guycohen9037
3 сағат бұрын
Optimizing the military budget is always a good thing, but always be wary of those who advocate for it
@zacka9438
3 сағат бұрын
The U.S is an empire that's why it has to spend so much on military. Comparing it to other countries is kinda silly.
@mcmarkmarkson7115
3 сағат бұрын
So what, should we compare it to your mother?
@TOSikSiTkO
3 сағат бұрын
US+GB+EU=NATO Empire
@doofenshmirtz6417
3 сағат бұрын
What's up with the clickbaity, low-quality thumbnails?
@USA-zr9zy
3 сағат бұрын
Eisenhower warned us in 1961 about the defense industrial complex
@CamiloSanchez1979
3 сағат бұрын
Actually this is a misconception. The excerpt widely shared is part of a larger speech in which he advocates for a larger military. Pass it around. Ps. I agree with Harris, there is a serious conflict of interest.
@Oropher420
4 сағат бұрын
*TRIPLE THE DEFENSE BUDGET!!! WE NEED 2 TRILLION DOLLARS!!! RAAAAH* 🇺🇸 🦅🦅🦅
@chitomanito
2 сағат бұрын
I just saw this entire video with no ads. Says alot. Brilliant btw.
@fahimrahman4127
3 сағат бұрын
As someone belonging to nation formerly being a colony of Britain; I would like to ask you to make a video on the military and bureaucratic budget of the British empire; how they once would manage the global hegemony prior to WW2...thanks in advance!
@shalashaska5851
3 сағат бұрын
Diplomacy is also CHEAPER hence the budget at the state department being lower…..
@salvadormuro7346
3 сағат бұрын
Wow. This was a really good one. Good job guys. I do think the way you showed it in a way that is very easy to understand and it would have been cool to go into one of those tiny branches briefly to highlight the complexity even more. Hope everyone doing well, thanks again for sharing.
@techsilver7761
4 сағат бұрын
Without having watched (obviously after barely a minute), I wager it's because of the military doctrine of power projection as well as being able to win effectively in up to three separate combat theaters simultaneously
@wyattterrell
4 сағат бұрын
2 theaters but 3 domains in each theater
@sergiom9958
3 сағат бұрын
Dude; you as an individual US citizen... is it worth it or justified to spend such cuantities of money to keep military presence worldwide so you can enforce your will on others?
@mcmarkmarkson7115
3 сағат бұрын
Well and because private companies take the tax payer for a ride.
@aidanryan4301
3 сағат бұрын
@@sergiom9958 Someone's gotta be the top dog. If not us, then it's either Russia, China, or Europe as a whole (ex. EU).
@DashMatinGaming
4 сағат бұрын
the only channel I can say has great editing, visuals and... everything is actually good.
@sahilsamundre0
3 сағат бұрын
Can you make a video how money influences elections at a hindsight it’s obvious but would love to see more from you
@deezaina
4 сағат бұрын
This video was so well put together
@AsdasdKsksdkd
3 сағат бұрын
Me who lives in Europe, I am thankful that we have a big country like the US that stands for democracy. If it wasn’t for the US standing behind West Berlin Berlin back in the day. Whole Europe would probably be shit right now.
@user-dl9yy1zu80
3 сағат бұрын
"Noone ever achieved sustainable peace by spending more on military". This is just a weird statement. Has anybody ever achieved sustainable peace? Also, most citizens don't care about peace in the world as much as they care about peace in their country.
@JaydnDufur-l8u
4 сағат бұрын
I love how your videos are actuallly worthwhile to watch usually i get stuck watching something stupid like how tall mario is or something like that
@EZLogikal
3 сағат бұрын
In my opinion, this is why the US is drip-feeding support to Ukraine. If Russia wasn't such a constant threat, we wouldn't have to project so much force in the region, or be sure that our weapons were so much better than theirs.
@Bellamoretta
4 сағат бұрын
I’d been desperate scrolling looking for something to watch while I do chores, refresh and here this is, literally 1 minute ago.🙏
@mrsquirrelmrsrabbot8430
4 сағат бұрын
We did not put ourselves in 20 trillion dollars of debt to come in second place, Johnny.
@username65585
4 сағат бұрын
Because the companies that get that money spend a small portion of it donating to politicians.
@Maxrepfitgm
3 сағат бұрын
"Donating" to politicians lol You mean bribing
@dryptobot
2 сағат бұрын
Absolutely unreal, 100 million for 1 jet, that would cover alot of people's medical expenses. Wow, its worse than I thought it was already. Disgusting
@CelataForCongress
2 сағат бұрын
Please, all of you watching this, together we are FAR stronger than any wealthy elite, politician or political party. Start supporting NEW candidates for Congress. It's where we will make the changes we so desperately need. Stop electing the rich and well connected and START electing working class Americans. I will be running again in Massachusetts during the mid term. All we need to do is get a foot in the door. I promise all of you I will use my voice and position to highlight NEW candidates NATION WIDE who truly want to SERVE THE PUBLIC. *Together we can actually make the changes we want so bad. But only if we work together.*
@Peace0101
2 сағат бұрын
Good luck 🍀
@vicmarc4984
3 сағат бұрын
I’d say 50% of that spending is waste, and abuse of the system.
@intosound913
2 сағат бұрын
what always baffles me, is how much we spend on the military industrial complex, but the rank and file still qualifies for food stamps.😅
@markmuller7962
2 сағат бұрын
The problem when 50% of the budget goes in the military is that the federal political class becomes a military class somewhat similar to the old European Aristocracies
@_fisheater1027
3 сағат бұрын
The graph and graphics is so well made!
@wiledman2430
3 сағат бұрын
Man we should stop spending money on defense.. i miss those world wars we used to have.
@The-web-architect-0
3 сағат бұрын
You don't need spend 800 billion on defense, 200-300 billion dollar budget will be enough for a country
@kgriffin1032
2 сағат бұрын
I am honestly surprised with all this research that the government mindset of a "Use it or lose it" budget was not mentioned. I have seen so much money wasted on useless things because it was required to spend the money we were allocated, or else we risk losing it. So much wasted money..
@iCeMhaN23
4 сағат бұрын
Finally a good update/content!
@dadawesome784
4 сағат бұрын
You can’t measure the efficacy of a military based on its budget.
@balajireddy5869
3 сағат бұрын
Your videos are absolutely amazing-beautifully crafted, precise, and straight to the point with no unnecessary fluff. Thank you for your work. .
@PanikedReactions
2 сағат бұрын
5:49 which is arguably the most important. Soldiers win battles. Logistics win wars.
@abdulrafiuabdulazeez9924
3 сағат бұрын
US calls it lobbying but everyone else calls it bribery.
@HomoSnow
3 сағат бұрын
Johnny casually spinning his highlighter like its nothing at 15:22
@nickp.4995
3 сағат бұрын
Anyone that has dealt with the DoD on any project knows why everything is so insanely expensive. That cheap ball bearing that the DoD could buy for $15 they won't, the DoD will make a book long spec detailing the manufacture, tolerances, specs and testing of that bearing. It is overly speced and ridiculous, because if it fails in a nuclear war who is going to be held accountable for that bearing? Everything the DoD buys has to pass crazy tests that cost a lot, and they are altered from mass produced specs so the cost to actually make these are sky high.
@mikejb6888
3 сағат бұрын
Woow I’m in the military and couldn’t wait for a video like this. Now I clearly understand our budget. Insane
@JDM_PLUS
3 сағат бұрын
Good information and presentation
@DriftyLitz
4 сағат бұрын
Team here before Johnny changes the thumbnail 2000 times 👇
@jm-holm
3 сағат бұрын
A huge portion is lost to inefficiency and profiteering, but the idea that diplomacy can solve everything is naive. There will always be people or countries that can only be stopped by force.
@calebbearup4282
3 сағат бұрын
Not having a strong enough military didn't do much to protect Poland, Finland, Ukraine... This is a very long list
@bananbananowy3552
2 сағат бұрын
Great vid!
@buildthelanes
2 сағат бұрын
We are spending a much lower percent of our GDP on the military than we used to. During Vietnam it was up to 9%!
@Steve-k1f
3 сағат бұрын
Hi, just an observation: I noticed that in this video, the examples focus primarily on members of the Republican Party. I’m not sure if this was intentional, but I think it would be beneficial for these videos to take a more balanced approach by highlighting examples from both sides. This would promote a more diplomatic perspective and reduce the risk of viewers developing an unintended bias. Balanced coverage, showing the full picture, reflects the best standards in journalism.
@Peace0101
2 сағат бұрын
Love your content Johnny
@turkeybobjr
3 сағат бұрын
This is some of the most impressive video editing and cinematography I have ever seen on KZitem...
@kinuthiamatata6040
3 сағат бұрын
Never disappointing stories... lovely stuff
@bstnbby
2 сағат бұрын
I feel like if you have a basic enough understanding of how the world works, you already know why the US spends so much on its military.
@julieta203
3 сағат бұрын
ITs not cheap maintaining 800+ Military bases and paying for grossly overpriced weapons systems all in order to keep the USD overvalued in order to extract the real wealth of other nations.
@crazycjk
2 сағат бұрын
Excellent video. Love how you've made it accessible with maps on spending, and clear examples of the revolving door and political influence. Brilliantly done
@sleepyhorses6100
2 сағат бұрын
Johnny - would love to see an impartial take on the costs associated with GWOT and specifically Afghanistan. I’ve heard that there are big differences in how wars are run when DOD is at the helm vs the CIA who apparently was on top of the Afghanistan conflict. I’ve heard the ex blackwater founder talk about how we were inadvertently funding the taliban during the war by paying import fees because we sourced all of our fuel from the Mediterranean instead of repurposing oil refineries in country. There is a lot more to this, but I think it’d be important for the public to get a full picture on the cost of war as we continue to enter times where tensions are rising so dramatically. Thanks for all of your hard work.
@ianbrown3275
3 сағат бұрын
Love the video Johnny. Keep shining light on the things all us politicians don’t want us to see. Would you consider doing a video that expands on what the budget might look like if we cut 1,2,5,10 or 20% on our military budget and how that money would affect other issues? Like climate change, universal healthcare, rebuilding public infrastructure or free college education? It really might put into perspective what we can do with that money and give an idea of how much $916B really is.
@andreweisen3465
3 сағат бұрын
People do understand that a vast majority goes to veterans every year. Be it pensions, payroll or VA benefits.
@pplett8238
3 сағат бұрын
You showed a pie chart that said $916 billion on military and then after that you show another pie chart saying $805 billion on military. Then you showed 853 billion on military. Which one is it?
@CamiloSanchez1979
3 сағат бұрын
God bless you, Johnny. Stay safe. You truly are your brother's keeper.
@happymelon7129
4 сағат бұрын
More than 60 years after Eisenhower identified the problem and gave it a name : ---> M1C
@happymelon7129
4 сағат бұрын
continues to use its unprecedented influence to corrupt budget and policy processes, starve funding for non-military solutions to security problems
@happymelon7129
4 сағат бұрын
The question is: What can be done to reduce its power over our lives, our livelihoods, and ultimately, the future of the planet?
@xxoo-lp6vc
4 сағат бұрын
true
@Hypnotic-tist
2 сағат бұрын
So err, it’s not just a conflict of interests… it’s essentially corruption with in the military. 😢 Oh dear. Well done for actually bringing this to light Johnny.
@NoahsBox
3 сағат бұрын
I wish there was a way to do an analysis of how much it would cost to fulfill the US's actual security needs if the system was not built the way it is. Because there's two competing narratives here. The US is trying to be everywhere all at once, that's not cheap. But at the same time it's made even more expensive because of the inventive structure and corruption. So how much would it cost for a perfectly efficient country to do that same global police work?
@HistoryRoar247
3 сағат бұрын
"Why does the US spend so much on its military?" Original title.
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