re: #89 Rightwingconspirator

So you support cuts of that scale by that logic? That number oversimplifies. China has no Atlantic coast. No blue water navy at all. No NATO commitment. Basically China has no other nations to defend. Not Israel. Not (fill in all those nations like Japan and Saudi Arabia that opted out of nukes because they are under our protection)

And it is not as dependent on energy supplies from a politically unstable, socially and culturally backward part of the world, which exposes it to terrorism and compels it to maintain a large military presence throughout the globe.
We chose this role, and we chose to rely on a resource that exposes us to a lot of risk. China has avoided going that route.