“Be afraid” is Washington-speak for “give us and our cronies still more money and power.” From William Hartung at responsiblestatecraft.org:
Washington wants you to believe we’re being outpaced in budget and weapons. That’s not true.
Discussions of Pentagon spending in Washington routinely ignore the fact that at $886 billion for next year, the military budget is already at one of the highest levels since World War II. With better management and a more realistic strategy, that sum would be far more than is needed to provide an effective defense of the United States and its allies.
Unfortunately, the Pentagon, the arms industry, and their allies in Congress have failed to make a careful assessment of America’s defense needs. Instead, they’re pushing an ill-considered plan to supersize the weapons production base at the expense of other urgent national needs.
The main argument used by Pentagon budget boosters is that the United States is in danger of falling behind China in developing and deploying next-generation systems, like unpiloted vehicles controlled by artificial intelligence. This approach would also include taxpayer subsidies for the building of new weapons factories, which could lead to a permanent expansion of the arms sector. Doing all of this could push the Pentagon budget well over $1 trillion in the next few years, a huge and unnecessary spending binge that would further militarize our economy at the expense of investments in addressing major challenges like climate change and outbreaks of disease.
CCP already owns the best government money can buy and reverse engineered all the stolen tech.
Russia will share hypersonic missile, drone detector, naval and other military gear.
They have already placed a fifth column due to no borders and didn’t have to spend anywhere near a trillion.
These things happen when “your” government works for external enemies.