The White House has announced a new military budget for the fiscal year 2023 (which will start on 1 October 2022). This usually ordinary event has now attracted a lot of attention – against the background of the endless “Groundhog Day” in the form of the Ukrainian crisis
This year’s military budget was approved with a long delay only a couple of months ago. It is remembered for the curiosity of introducing new mechanisms to combat harassment in the army. And the allocation of $9 billion to Taiwan, which received far more military aid than Ukraine.
Just the other day, the Pentagon announced new key principles for the US military: diversity, racial-gender equality and inclusiveness. It fits in the general framework of rapid “liberalization” of the US armed forces. In general, the Afghan fiasco did not teach the US military leadership anything.
The new budget will focus on investments in modernization of the US nuclear triad and development of hypersonic missiles. It is all done under the slogan of deterring the military capabilities of Russia and China, from which the Pentagon admits to lagging far behind on the issue of strategic arms.
The White House plans to spend a total of $683 billion over 10 years to patch up holes in nuclear technology. About 20 billion of them will be spent on creation of the American “hypersonic”. Its tests will continue until 2025, and it may enter into operation in 2028.
Total amount of military budget for the next year might exceed $800 billion for the first time in history. This has already sparked outrage inside the Democratic Party itself, namely why Biden is prepared to spend so much money on war when Americans themselves need help in this crisis year.
The latest polls show that the Ukrainian agenda is not helping Biden: his ratings remain at the bottom. Americans are concerned about problems in the economy and with migration. Foreign policy interests only 4% of the US population. Media hysteria about Ukraine is turning into infoshop for Americans
Malek Dudakov