Yeah, okay, the toilet seat is a bad example.
Remember when we had that fancy new stealth drone and it landed in Iran and China took it?
en.wikipedia.org
Now China and Iran have US drone technology. $billions wasted.
We need the EU and NATO countries and Japan to pick up the slack.
We spend $24b a year keeping US troops in the EU.
That needs to be reimbursed, or bring them home.
I think Poland is the only one that pays for us to be there.
You didn't reply to these little factoids:
The FACT is that the US DOD gets more funding than the next 10 militaries COMBINED.
The US simply cannot afford to over-budget the military any more. Call it a fiscal reality.
So unless you have a plan to raise revenue to pay for more DOD spending, military spending needs to be cut.