hey UK wasting £100 billion on utterly useless nuclear weapons and idiot wars in Middle East...same thing, it's the mentality and *criminal waste*
and UK has slashed the actual military to hell to the point it's not fit for purpose, I bitterly object to the criminal wars we've been in, but, crap happens, we need a
useful military especially navy who can help out with the huge and important task of sea safety/rescue/security etc.
US Coastguard fills all those roles and is a great and valuable force, IMHO.
But we in the UK don't even have a single coastal defence craft now! *points to the enormous length of our coastline and the oil fields as well that SHOULD be being patrolled*
another thing to consider in all the madness, is the US corporates are determined to get rid of the A10 aircraft because it's cheap incredibly practical and hell of a reliable compared to the junk they want their bought & paid for congress critters to push through the budget, and meanwhile the UK got rid of all it's Harrier's leaving us with jack poo for ground support, Jaguars being 40 year old and completely wrong for what's needed
using incredibly expensive incredibly unreliable fighter aircraft to attack insurgents armed with $200 of gear is nuts, may as well drop gold ingots as weapons considering the expenses
money is wasted enormously thanks to the hellish BRIBERY and corruption of the lobbyist systems poison our countries with.
there is no one bribing Congress critter/MP with cocaine, illegal prostitutes, back hand deals for ME/CFS research so we don't count, simple as that
Note: the pharmaceutical industry is the BIGGEST lobbying group in the US, they spend over $3 billion a year buying politicians (they spend about twice what their nearest competing group does), so if old white males have problems getting it up or hair loss BAM!! the money flows to help them! humour but also, fact.