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Chewing the Fat About Cutting the Bloat at the Nuclear BBQ

By Karen Kwiatkowski

Vacuous Pete read the US DoD FY 26 posture statement last week, explaining how the feds will spend the new trillion dollar US defense budget. The SecDef seems unaware of the idiocy, and the irony, of what he presented to Congress.

We may quibble on whether it was idiot-speak, mendacity, or simple ignorance. I’m agreeable that in Pete’s case, it could be all three.

First we have the sheer inability to identify the problem. Pete says, “The $961.6 billion budget put forward by the President reverses four years of mismanagement and underinvestment.” I’m not sure Pete has looked at Pentagon budget trends since WWII, but that budget has a long established pattern. ......