“NDAA [National Defense Authorization Act] would allocate roughly $778 billion to the Pentagon for Fiscal Year 2022, a nearly $40 billion increase from 2021 and the largest called for in the bill in eight years. The plan from the Biden administration was to set the tone early and say, 'We're not going to get a peace dividend out of this, we are going to reinvest this in, not necessarily endless wars per se, but a sprawling collection of 800 military bases, spending that exceeds the next 10 countries combined. The NDAA being considered by the House this week would far surpass China's funding for its own military. By increasing the military budget close to $40 billion, America is back, but in the sense that we're back to starting an arms race with another major power.”
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