The U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders who is also Democratic 2020 U.S. presidential candidate wants to discontinue massive funding to the Military of United States for weapons. Instead, he wants to spend those 1.5 trillion dollars on climate change that will positively impact on a greater scale.
Instead of spending $1.5 trillion on weapons to kill one other, let us unite against the common enemy that is climate change. — Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) July 20, 2019
Bernie Sanders on his twitter account said, “Instead of spending $1.5 trillion on weapons to kill one other, let us unite against the common enemy that is climate change.”
Just a day earlier, he also blamed the U.S. President Donald Trump by saying that “President is threatening the lives of our children.”
Berns429 on July 24th, 2019 at 12:14 UTC »
Let’s put these things together and get our military brothers and sisters out there planting trees, stationed at national parks, working grounds hit by wildfires, jobs educated in solar, wind, etc.
Masher88 on July 24th, 2019 at 10:53 UTC »
For the record, this title is misleading. He doesn’t want to cut the entire military budget.
“I’m saying I doubt that I would get that budget,” he said instead, arguing that Congress would reflect his executive budget. “We will present a thoughtful budget that meets the defense needs of this country without just simply supplying billions of dollars of unnecessary money to the military industrial complex.”
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lessismoreok on July 24th, 2019 at 10:21 UTC »
It’s very smart.
US military expenditure is mostly used to protect overseas oil reserves.
Cut the demand for oil and you don’t need to fund the oil wars any more.
Edit - to break this down somewhat ...
The Iraq and Afghanistan wars have a combined cost to America of $2.5T. Additionally, the US spends $81B a year protecting oil reserves (conservative estimate):
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/21/us-spends-81-billion-a-year-to-protect-oil-supplies-report-estimates.
So since the Iraq war sixteen years ago the US has spent $4T on oil wars and protecting oil interests.
Spend that on renewables instead and you’d never need to go to war for oil ever again.