Originally posted at TomDispatch. I have a question for you: What would it take in today’s world for America’s military spending to go down? Here’s one - William J. Astore for Antiwar.com Original
coming for its major cities, let s bring in two of our best military voices. we tired i m colonel, jack jacobs. he s a medal of honor recipient, and msnbc military analyst. and general barry mccaffrey as a retired force general, and msnbc national security commentator. thank you both so much for being with us. general, president zelenskyy telling american lawmakers earlier today that ukraine urgently needs more assistance from the u.s.. there is reporting out that countries like poland maybe working out deals to get russian made jets into ukrainian hands. your thoughts? well, we put several billion dollars worth of equipment into their hands over the last several years. fortunately, the polish border, and maybe the hungarian border, there are still open to smart munitions, stinger, javelin, possibly armed drones. i think that the aircraft is not gonna be significant.