{"id":49568,"date":"2021-12-19T10:28:20","date_gmt":"2021-12-19T16:28:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.wordpress.com\/?p=49568"},"modified":"2021-12-19T10:28:20","modified_gmt":"2021-12-19T16:28:20","slug":"when-your-government-ends-a-war-but-increases-the-military-budget-youre-being-scammed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2021\/12\/19\/when-your-government-ends-a-war-but-increases-the-military-budget-youre-being-scammed\/","title":{"rendered":"When Your Government Ends A War But Increases The Military Budget, You\u2019re Being Scammed"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-49569\" src=\"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.files.wordpress.com\/2021\/12\/asshat.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"474\" height=\"316\" \/><\/h1>\n<h1 class=\"entry-title fusion-post-title\" style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanpartisan.org\/2021\/12\/caitlin-johnstone-when-your-government-ends-a-war-but-increases-the-military-budget-youre-being-scammed\/\">When Your Government Ends A War But Increases The Military Budget, You\u2019re Being Scammed<\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h2><em>&#8220;The US military had a budget of <a class=\"dy iv\" href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/flashpoints\/2020\/02\/10\/us-military-budget-request-for-afghanistan-lowest-in-a-decade\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener ugc nofollow\">$14 billion<\/a>\u00a0for its scaled-down Afghanistan operations in the fiscal year of 2021, down from $17 billion in 2020. If the US military budget behaved normally, you\u2019d expect it to come down by at least $14 billion in 2022 following the withdrawal of US troops and official end of the war in Afghanistan. Instead, this new $778 billion total budget is a five percent\u00a0increase from the previous year.&#8221;<\/em><\/h2>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Your Government Ends A War But Increases The Military Budget, You\u2019re Being Scammed &nbsp; &#8220;The US military had a budget of $14 billion\u00a0for its scaled-down Afghanistan operations in the fiscal year of 2021, down from $17 billion in 2020. If the US military budget behaved normally, you\u2019d expect it to come down by at&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[13,74,5594,5429,2820,5770],"tags":[38,5475,10110,10111,10112],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49568"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49568\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}