H/t reader squodgy:
“57 F-35’s allocated to conflict with Russia & China………DOH!!!!!
Why allocate a totally unproved & potentially incapable airplane, already questioned by Military authority, and a ridiculously expensive asset, to an arena of military superiority?”
Related info:
– The Latest Russian Fighter Jet Blows America’s F-35 Away
– AND NOW: Computer Glitch Prevents US’ Most Advanced F-35 Fighter Jet From Firing Until 2019
– $400 Billion F-35 Joint Strike Fighter Jet ‘10 Years Behind’ Older Jets
– US Military Budget Increase directed against Russia, China and the Middle East (Global Research, Jan 28, 2015):
By Prof Michel Chossudovsky
A substantial share of the increase in the US military budget that President Barack Obama has asked for will ultimately be directed against Russia, a political commentator says.
To listen to the audio interview with Michel Chossudovsky, click here
“I should mention that the F35, the submarines, the ships and so on are ultimately directed against China and Russia,” Michel Chossudovsky, the founder and director of the Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG) told Press TV on Wednesday.
According to a report circulated by the media, the US Defense Department was set to increase its military budget by eight percent.
Some 57 next-generation F-35 fighters, nine new ships and submarines, and construction of new long-range Air Force tankers are among the items included in the budget.
“A large component of this military budget increase will be used to extend the process of militarization in Ukraine on Russia’s doorsteps,” Chossudovsky noted.
According to “pre-decisional” Pentagon documents that obtained by the Associated Press on Tuesday, Obama would ask for $534 billion for the core budget of the Pentagon that projects a $38 billion hike.
The Pentagon said that most of the military budget increase would go to the procurement of new war-fighting equipment as well as operations and maintenance expenditures.
Chossudovsky said,
“It’s a very hefty increase in the so-called defense budget at a time when the United States proclaims to be involved in peace-making operations. It is no longer officially involved in wars.”
According to the Pentagon documents, the budget also includes $5.3 billion to “equip and train” Iraqi soldiers and the so-called moderate Syrian militants to fight ISIL.
Chossudovsky, however, believes that the United States is actually financing the ISIL “through Saudi Arabia and Qatar.”
He said that
“much of the funds which are allocated to the so-called global war on terrorism are actually used to finance these terrorist entities which are supported covertly by US intelligence.”
The Pentagon announced that it would deploy about 1,000 troops to train the “moderate militants” in Syria to combat ISIL terrorists.
The training is expected to begin in early spring and will take place in Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Qatar.
McCain and his buddy, ISIS leader Al-Baghdadi:
A welcome distraction: the Islamist dude with the $6.500 James Bond watch.
Related info:
– John McCain: Get Ready for U.S. Troops on the Ground in Iraq and Syria
– Pentagon Dispatches First Batch Of US Forces To Train Syrian ‘Rebels’ (Al-Nusra = Al-Qaeda & ISIS)
– Syria: 3000 ‘Moderate Rebels’ Defect To ISIS … US Plans To Train 5,000 More …
– They Have Butchered Children (Veterans Today)
– Israel Acts As ISIS’ Air Force … Repeatedly Bombs Syria
– Senior Aide To President Putin: Mossad Training ISIL Terrorists
– ISIS, Al-Qaeda Join The M&A Bubble, Agree To Fight ‘Common Foes’ Together In Syria
– George Galloway On ISIS (Video )
– Israel And Turkey Are Directly Supporting ISIS And Al-Qaeda Terrorists In Syria
– The Khorasans: As Fake As the Kardashians
– The Fake Beheadings of the Arch-Zionist Crime Syndicate
– ISIS EXPOSED 100% AS CIA OPERATION: ‘The Next Osama Bin Laden is Here’ (Video)
– ISIL Leader Al-Baghdadi Is Mossad Agent Simon Elliot
The U.S. has armed and trained ISIS:
– Veterans Today: CIA And US Military Fight Under Al Qaeda Command In Syria (Video)
– U.S. Special Forces Train Syrian Rebels In Jordan (Le Figaro)
– Americans Are Training Syria Rebels In Jordan: Spiegel (Reuters)
– CIA-Armed And Trained Syrian Rebels ‘On Way To Battlefield’
Flashback:… all of them coming directly from from our Al-CIAda unit …
– Why Was A Sunday Times Report On US Government Ties To Al-Qaeda Chief Spiked? & Gladio B
– ‘GLADIO, THE LIVING PROOF THERE IS NO AL-QAEDA, NO WAR ON TERROR’ – ‘GLADIO Is AL-QAEDA’ (Veterans Today)
Just one month after this article has been published in the Guardian Robin Cook DIED:
– Al Qaeda Doesn’t Exist or How The US Created Al Qaeda (Documentary)
– BBC: Al-Qaeda Does Not Exist (Documentary)
Retired U.S. General Wesley Clark …
… at the Commonwealth Club of California:
… or here in this interview with Democracy Now:
– Interview With US General Wesley Clark (Ret.): US Government Planned To ‘Take Out 7 Countries In 5 Years’: ‘Starting With Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan And Finishing Off Iran’ (Video)
More on the F-35:
– Lockheed, Pentagon Reach $4 BILLION Deal For More F-35 Fighter Jets
– Pentagon Bars F-35s From Farnborough Airshow After Engine Problems
“With the full amount spent on the F-35 at its disposal, the U.S. could afford to purchase every person on the streets a $664,000 home.”
– US F-35 Stealth Fighter Jet Can’t Evade Russian Radars
– Money For Nothing? Boeing Says F-35 Isn’t So Stealth After All
– U.S. Waived Laws To Keep F-35 On Track With China-Made Parts (Reuters)
– Test Pilots: F-35 Joint Strike Fighter Blind Spot Will Get It ‘Gunned Every Time’ (Wired)
– Pentagon Grounds F-35 Fighter Jet Fleet After Engine Crack Found (CBS News)
– F-35 (Ironically Known As ‘Lightning II’) Fatal Flaw: Lightning! (RT)
– Trillion-Dollar F-35 Joint Strike Fighter Jet Has Thirteen Expensive New Flaws
– NATIONAL SECURITY ALERT: F-35 STEALTH FIGHTER SPY COVER-UP (Veterans Today):
“AN UNPRECEDENTED DISASTER”