{"id":692176,"date":"2022-06-09T08:35:56","date_gmt":"2022-06-09T08:35:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=245751"},"modified":"2022-06-09T08:35:56","modified_gmt":"2022-06-09T08:35:56","slug":"u-s-military-spending-is-undebatable-because-indefensible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/06\/09\/u-s-military-spending-is-undebatable-because-indefensible\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Military Spending Is Undebatable Because Indefensible"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spain, Thailand, Germany, Japan, Netherlands \u2014 The word has gone out that every government can buy a lot more weapons with either no debate at all or with all debate shut down by a single word: Russia. Do a web search for \u201cweapons buying\u201d and you\u2019ll find story after story about U.S. residents solving their  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/06\/09\/u-s-military-spending-is-undebatable-because-indefensible\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/06\/09\/u-s-military-spending-is-undebatable-because-indefensible\/\">U.S. Military Spending Is Undebatable Because Indefensible<\/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\/06\/09\/u-s-military-spending-is-undebatable-because-indefensible\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spain, Thailand, Germany, Japan, Netherlands \u2014 The word has gone out that every government can buy a lot more weapons with either no debate at all or with all debate shut down by a single word: Russia. Do a web search for \u201cweapons buying\u201d and you\u2019ll fi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1817,"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\/692176"}],"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\/1817"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=692176"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":692177,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692176\/revisions\/692177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=692176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=692176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=692176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}