Japan’s Minister of Defense Shinjirō Koizumi posed with a cardboard drone on Monday during a meeting with drone manufacturer AirKamuy. The AirKamuy 150 is a cheap pre-fab cardboard drone meant to die on the battlefield and it comes shipped in a flatpack like an IKEA shelf.
This is an approach that could never succeed in the U.S., because there the focus is always on throwing as much money as possible at the defense contractors so that the billionaires can get even richer.
A current example: the war of aggression against Iran that the U.S. is waging in violation of international law.
To my knowledge, not even a halfway plausible reason has been given for this. And so it becomes quite clear that this is simply about shifting state resources into the pockets of the super-rich - and U.S. citizens just go along with it, even though it isn’t even them who are dying by the thousands, but rather, among others, Iranian schoolchildren, hundreds of whom were murdered simply by a bombing of a school…
The usa military budget is non comparable to european military budgets, they pay for different things. IMO.
They do? What do you mean?
In addition, they patrol the entire planets oceans, and are the main reason why you don’t have pirates just taking ships constantly.
(I’m not necessarily saying piracy is bad…)
But I feel like the violent enforcement of extreme inequality is what creates pirates, not what stops them.
It includes costs for retired personnel and social security (social security is not in the military budget in most or any European countries) for example.