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Warfare Trumps welfare — whoever wins the US election
In 2022 alone, a staggering $800 billion was spent on the military, with 40 per cent funnelling into the coffers of a tiny number of major arms manufacturers — meanwhile, the country crumbles, writes ROGER McKENZIE

THE US is heading towards a presidential election in November. But regardless of whether Biden or Trump, the two likely candidates, wins, the US will continue to prefer to spend money on warfare rather than welfare.
For more than 80 million US citizens born after 2001 warfare has been a normal state of affairs. They have never known peace.
The US has been at war for 231 of the last 245 years. Beginning with the revolutionary war in 1775, the US has been openly involved in 107 wars since it gained independence.
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