{"id":590511,"date":"2022-04-05T08:56:11","date_gmt":"2022-04-05T08:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=239155"},"modified":"2022-04-05T08:56:11","modified_gmt":"2022-04-05T08:56:11","slug":"what-would-it-take-for-military-spending-in-america-to-go-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/04\/05\/what-would-it-take-for-military-spending-in-america-to-go-down\/","title":{"rendered":"What Would It Take for Military Spending in America to Go Down?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have a question for you: What would it take in today\u2019s world for America\u2019s military spending to go down?\u00a0 Here\u2019s one admittedly farfetched scenario: Vladimir Putin loses his grip on power and Russia retrenches militarily while reaching out to normalize relations with the West. At the same time, China prudently decides to spend less  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/04\/05\/what-would-it-take-for-military-spending-in-america-to-go-down\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/04\/05\/what-would-it-take-for-military-spending-in-america-to-go-down\/\">What Would It Take for Military Spending in America to Go Down?<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/04\/05\/what-would-it-take-for-military-spending-in-america-to-go-down\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a question for you: What would it take in today\u2019s world for America\u2019s military spending to go down?\u00a0 Here\u2019s one admittedly farfetched scenario: Vladimir Putin loses his grip on power and Russia retrenches militarily while reaching out to normali&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":696,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590511"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/696"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=590511"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":590512,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590511\/revisions\/590512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}