re: #53 EPR-radar

It is difficult to find real numbers for this on short notice, but the US is so far ahead of every other nation on military spending that we could probably absorb 10x the sequester in defense spending cuts before there would be any chance of getting out of the “#1 military power by a wide margin” category.

IIRC, our military $ volume is larger than the GDP of “most of the rest of the world”

or something like that. It’s really staggering.