relative to the GDP. It’s something around 3% of the federal budget.
Apologists for the US military always try to pull out these bizarre metrics, like framing it based on GDP. Who gives a shit about percent GDP? Are you saying that richer countries ought to spend more on the military for no reason, just because they have more money to burn? It’s insanity. Military spending is meant to counter specific threats, if a small, poor country is threatened by an aggressive neighbor, they might spend more as a percentage of GDP in order to achieve something close to military parity. But when you’re spending more than the next nine countries combined, it has nothing to do with parity or security and everything to do with supremacy and domination - not to mention corruption.
I did not, in fact, "forget the rest of your sentence," I spent that entire paragraph addressing how you're full of shit.
the election of Trump doesn’t affect ordinary people in the slightest.
Because Russia was the only force supporting Trump, right? Of course, the domestic bourgeoisie had no influence over that election. Right.