"The US 2015 base budget defense appropriations excluding overseas contingency spending was less than 3% as opposed to 5.7% in the peace time years during the period 1940-20000"
"As the US allow its nuclear forces to stagnate and decay into de facto unilateral disarmament Russia has been modernizing its own."
"with little resistance China incrementally annexes the South China Sea."
"Russia, China and Iran have been racing ahead stimulated by a disintegrating Europe that neither spends sufficiently on its defense nor defends its borders ;
and by an America, strategically blind in the Middle East
In this powerful nation with founding principles and latent capacities second to none, politics have become fit for the fall of Rome, the culture is sick with self-destruction and the rule of law is routinely perverted"
Cite: Mark Helprin, author and senior fellow Claremont Institute
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