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"During
the Cold War, the Soviet Union was a serious military
competitor for the United States. Today, the U.S. maintains
a huge war machine despite the lack of any serious
competition. The U.S. military budget is now larger than the
next 25 biggest spenders put together! It makes up a full
36% of total global military spending. ... If we add up the
current Pentagon budget, the nuclear weapons budget of the
Energy Department, the military portion of the NASA budget,
foreign military aid, veterans' benefits, interest payments
on debt incurred by past military spending and other
military-related expenses, the U.S. spends over $776 billion
a year to feed its addiction to war. That's more than a
million dollars a minute!" -- Addicted to War, by Joel
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