What that chart shows is growth in US GDP and not a reduction in US military expenditures. Maybe I don't understand the point of the chart below, but US military spending is not experiencing decay, https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/countries/USA/united-states/military-spending-defense-budget
Mark > > "military-industrial bedrock" here has lots of emotional energy, but > objectively, the military has not escaped the general decay of the U.S. >  > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#29984): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/29984 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/105603419/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: marxmail+ow...@groups.io Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [arch...@mail-archive.com] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-