[Posted
Oct 25, 2010]Military spending has ruined the economy
Pentagon's nearly trillion dollars per annum borrowed from China and Japan
chart from Piggington.com
Last symbol of British empire begins to sink
That other and bigger half of the famed US-UK “special relationship,” the United States undiplomatically treated Briton like a misbehaving banana republic as State Secretary Hillary Clinton and Defence Secretary Robert Gates openly rebuked and scolded London for its proposed defence cuts. Two points to be made here. First, Britain’s spending cuts are not coming in “defence” – since no one is threatening the British Isles. As the former head of MI5 Internal Security recently testified, the only threat to Britain was so-called terrorist attacks, the result of its invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan.
The only nations building real blue-water navies these days are China and India. So with no external threat, the only use for Britain’s fleet is offensively, as an auxiliary to the US Navy. That’s why Clinton and Gates were so miffed. Britain’s fleet, RAF, and soldiers are the key component of America’s imperial forces in the Third World. Take away the tough Brits, and the US is left with Italians, Estonians, Poles and other rent-an-armies. The US Navy budget is bigger than France’s total military budget.
Prime Minister Cameron deserves high praise for admitting that Britain was a balloon of debt with pretensions way beyond its economic or military power. Britons need decent hospitals and un-crashing trains far more than jolly little wars in remote places.
Second, Cameron’s goring of Britain’s most sacred cow leaves Washington odd man out with a monstrously bloated imperial military establishment that this bankrupt nation can no longer afford. The Pentagon’s annual budget is nearly $1 trillion – half the world’s total military spending. Worse, this trillion dollars is not raised by taxes, as it should be, but borrowed from China and Japan. The world’s greatest naval power is also the world’s biggest debtor. go to story
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Unnecessary military strength
excerpt from conversation, Mayapur, February 14, 1977
PRABHUPADA: That is not kshatriya's business. That is... That is... No, that is described. Krishna said... He arranged the battlefield, because the kshatriyas, they became very powerful by individual military strength as it is now...
HARI-SAURI: Accumulation.
PRABHUPADA: Yes. So Krishna arranged: "All right, you come together and finish yourselves." So this arrangement will be done that all atomic bombs will come in warfield—one, next, third war, finished. All these... all these demons will be finished. That is not kshatriya. This is demonic. Kshatriya's business is to see that the four orders of life are maintained properly, not increasing military strength only, overburdened. Everyone is spending 75% of the revenue for military. Paritranaya sadhunam vinashaya cha dushkritam [Bhagavad-gita 4.8: "To deliver the pious and to annihilate the miscreants, as well as to reestablish the principles of religion, I Myself appear, millennium after millennium."]. So they are demons. Why so much money should be spent for military? They are not kshatriyas. They are not kshatriyas. They are demons. So demons... As soon as there will be number of demons increased, there will be war and finish all.
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