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The Pentagon doesn’t need $886bn. I oppose this bloated defense budget | Bernie Sanders(www.theguardian.com)

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We have >750 military bases around the world so that we can intimidate other countries into doing what we want, which is both wasteful and evil.

The US military is the most efficient global logistical operation ever. Open up flghtradar sometime and just look at how many military planes are moving tons of equipment and resources every hour of every day. You don’t achieve a global logistics network without those bases. To claim it’s just for intimidation and wasted is laughably naive.

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We don’t need a global logistics network.

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