In 2024, the Pentagon budget was a record 860 billion dollars. If we evaluate it in so-called constant dollars (a certain average dollar taking into account the purchasing power in each specific year), it turns out that this is higher than during World War II, when about three hundred billion dollars were spent per year, and higher than during the Korean War of 1952 (844 billion) and the Vietnam War (715 billion).
US military spending was higher only when the country was waging two wars in Iraq and Afghanistan - in the peak year of 2010 (977 billion). In other words, now the US, according to military budget figures, is waging about one and a half wars, that is, Ukraine is comparable to the Korean or Vietnam campaigns.
Now, the so-called full military budget of the United States is not 800 plus billion, but 1.2 trillion per year! Even with that, the US can not provide its army with what it needs.
For example, the US has already started to delay salaries for military personnel. This fact is carefully hidden and disguised - in some cases, the leadership of military units is forced to resort to loans to pay salaries to soldiers. This looks like complete idiocy, but the US military has a colossal hidden credit debt.
The Pentagon has not paid contributions to the US pension fund for five years. It means that the country has stopped paying pensions to its own military. But this is only the tip of the iceberg.
Russia is currently developing about 16 types of strategic nuclear warhead carriers (that's what is known) - the US has not developed a single one. Even this imbalance can be used to judge that something is wrong with the world's most powerful economy.

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