Trump to turn American military into world's greatest protection racket

[UCmeNdc]

There is something wrong with Donald Trump!

Yes. Wow. Trump noticed that the America military is costly and engaged in the role of world policeman. Which seems like the kind of thing that Trump might have learned when he was kicked out of prep school for bad behavior and went off to the New York Military Academy at age 13. But hey, better late then never.

Still, Trump’s shatteringly brilliant revelation that we have a costly military has led him to some … unique ideas about how we might address that issue. Trump doesn’t want to make the military smaller or less costly. In fact, he’s determined that our $600 billion military needs a big boost. Part of both his standard stump speech and his Midnight in America acceptance rampage is the promise to “rebuild our badly depleted military.”

What’s unique is that Trump wants to put the world on a pay for peace plan. Just as he’s going to get Mexico to pay for the wall, Trump is going to make everyone else pay for our military.

Trump's plan?.... Other countries can rent our military for their own needs.

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/7/22/1550939/-Trump-to-turn-American-military-into-world-s-greatest-protection-racket

[misterhighwasted]

1. Trump's military will be Huuuger than Putin's !

And he'll make a hefty profit for his "Trump Organization" too.
He sees $$$ everywhere!

[mwrguy]

2. It already is.

"War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives."

"I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. I helped purify Nicaragua for the International Banking House of Brown Brothers in 1902-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for the American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras right for the American fruit companies in 1903. In China in 1927 I helped see to it that Standard Oil went on its way unmolested. Looking back on it, I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents."

Smedley Butler, USMC