“I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass… and I’m all out of bubblegum.”
~ Roddy Piper, They Live
Written by Bryan Lutz, Editor at Dollarcollapse.com:
Trump.
It seems like he’s come for one thing:
To kick ass.
While some might say he’s wrecking havoc on the markets, it would be more accurate to say he’s burst through the door of global politics, fully-armed and ready to push his big red buttons.
That being said, tariffs aren’t his biggest threat…
Instead, follow the money.
Bloomberg reports:
Trump, Hegseth tout $1 trillion US defense budget“President Donald Trump said his administration had approved a defense budget in the “vicinity” of $1 trillion……Trump added his administration will approve a budget that will be “the biggest one we’ve ever done for the military.”Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth followed up with a post on social media platform X:“COMING SOON: the first TRILLION dollar @DeptofDefense budget. President @realDonaldTrump is rebuilding our military — and FAST…”…Hegseth has also been among the most vocal supporters of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency cost-cutting efforts, and the Pentagon, with a budget totalling $850 billion a year and some 2 million employees, is the government’s biggest.The secretary in February directed reducing some unspecified Pentagon and military services spending categories by 8% and shifting those dollars to higher priority programs such as missile defense.”
It’s paradoxical really, but true.
Trump’s hired DOGE to cut budgets across the board.
At the same time, he’s about to sign the United States’ biggest defense spending budget ever.
So it’s really a bit of shuffling chairs around on the Titanic.
DOGE cuts money from Ukraine.
It goes to defense.
DOGE cuts money from DEI initiatives.
It goes to making more bombs and missiles.
And probably, drones.
In the future, military money looks to be moving from investing in military personnel to drones.
At least, that’s my assumption.
Military Times reports:
Army Planners Are Weighing Force Reductions of Up to 90,000 Active-Duty Soldiers
“The Army is quietly considering a sweeping reduction of up to 90,000 active-duty troops, a move that underscores mounting fiscal pressures at the Pentagon and a broader shift in military strategy away from Europe and counterterrorism, according to three defense officials familiar with the deliberations.
Internal discussions are exploring trimming the force to between 360,000 and 420,000 troops — down from its current level of roughly 450,000.
The potential cuts would mark one of the most dramatic force reductions in years, as military planners aim to reshape the Army from a blunt conventional force into what they hope could be a more agile, specialized instrument better suited for future conflicts…
…If the Army reduced the size of its active-duty force by the estimates under consideration, it could be far more dramatic than the announced plan to reduce the size of the force by about 24,000 last year.
Then-Army Secretary Christine Wormuth told reporters the service was cutting positions associated with counterterrorism.
The Army at the time announced a cut of about 10,000 positions for engineers and similar jobs that were tied to counterinsurgency missions.
Additional cuts came from cavalry squadrons, whose relevance has dwindled with the advancement of drone technology.”
Meanwhile, the threat at home still persists.
Deficit spending.
A Sovereign Debt crisis.
And a currency in decline – the USD.
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Not that I endorse war, or have any interest in the harm of others, I do endorse the right to self-defense.
If you were looking for stocks about to sky rocket over the next several years in the US, then look no further than those companies producing drones, robots, and information systems that support the operation of drones on land, sea, and air.
