Ryuu96 said:
I'm not sure for Israel as I don't follow it closely but it's an important distinction to make that Israel is buying a lot of American equipment, like Taiwan buys American equipment or Poland or any other country, I don't really think even if I could find a total for Israel it would be worth comparing to Ukraine whose equipment is almost entirely free. America's most recent military budget was $849bn for the fiscal year. Ukraine's aid amounts to around $61bn and theoretically lasts for around a year, therefore that would amount to roughly 7.2% of the $849bn passed military budget...However, I'm not actually 100% sure that Ukraine's $61bn is part of the $849bn military budget or counted as a separate thing because it's voted as a separate bill. Maybe an American can confirm? You said though that Ukraine and Israel are sucking the funds out of America but it isn't close to the truth, even if we only use military budget because Ukraine would only be 7.2% and Israel largely buys a lot of their equipment. Also, the vast majority of aid "sent" to Ukraine stays in America as billions of it is used to replace American stock after they send Ukraine the old stock destined for scrap in the next ~10-15 years. So America sends Ukraine old shit that would have been scrapped anyway and billions in the passed Ukraine aid package is instead used to replace that stock with new equipment that Ukraine doesn't get, lets for example use Bradley's as an example, America has sent Ukraine ~300 but they have literally thousands in storage and Bradley is being replaced by XM30. America is ranked #17 as a % of GDP for aid sent to Ukraine but America has a military budget bigger than China and Russia combined, heck, throw a few other countries on that list too and America would still be beating them all combined. Also, like I said, America would fight China using ships and planes, none of which they've sent to Ukraine and they have one of the largest air-forces and naval-forces in the world still. China's modern military isn't even battle-tested, it's all on paper right now, Russia has shown us something though, America massively overestimated Russia's military capabilities and could probably easily kick their ass even with half the military budget they have right now, but of course, America's military budget never was for only Russia, it was always designed for two adversaries; Russia and China. |
I just wanna address two things here, the rest I'm not knowledgeable enough to talk on. You said the US has more military budget than China but we don't know China's true spending, it's all calculated from what can be seen as them spending but even those calculations are pretty high, half a trillion so half the US budget. They have much shrouded in secret, their Nuclear weapons programme for one and it wouldn't surprise me should they keep a lot of other R&D secret too.
Second thing, China has so many more fighting age men it's unbelievable. Even if there was a draft in the US they'd still have so, so many more. Not to mention so many US men will fail bootcamp for many reasons. If China wants to invade, they don't need military equipment, they need able bodied men and they have a lot of them and a lot tougher too than the US where so many are over weight.
