Jiang says Trump's Pentagon expansion is fundamentally a kickback system for the military-industrial complex rather than a response to genuine military need.
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Pentagon budget
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "in the Middle East currently the Pentagon budget is one trillion dollars next year it'll be 1.5 trillion dollars increased by of um 50..."
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "in the Middle East currently the Pentagon budget is one trillion dollars next year it'll be 1.5 trillion dollars increased by of um 50..."
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"...know Trump just recently announced that he's going to increase the Pentagon budget for from a trillion dollars to 1.5 trillion dollars you know..."
"in the Middle East currently the Pentagon budget is one trillion dollars next year it'll be 1.5 trillion dollars increased by of um 50..."
"...in America, Trump has asked for $1.5 trillion in next year's Pentagon budget. He'll probably get it. There's now an automatic draft registration starting..."
"...friends around the world, cut back the security state, limit the Pentagon budget, and so they engineered 9 -11 in order to justify the..."
"...war as a major business not just the 1.5 trillion dollar Pentagon budget he wants to see uh he wants to clean up the..."
"...subordinate to financial power, because it needed access to capital and Pentagon budgets. And so the military industrial complex became subordinate later to the..."
"...And so imagine an Israel that is no longer backed by Pentagon budgets to destabilize the region and instead is utilized for its technology...."
"...But his number one backer was Elon. And Elon relies upon Pentagon budgets, deep state integration. He was allowed to buy X by borrowing..."
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