{"id":393365,"date":"2019-01-18T23:28:52","date_gmt":"2019-01-18T22:28:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-congressional-budget-office-points-us-spending-priorities-towards-great-power-conflict-part-one\/"},"modified":"2019-01-18T23:28:52","modified_gmt":"2019-01-18T22:28:52","slug":"the-congressional-budget-office-points-us-spending-priorities-towards-great-power-conflict-part-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-congressional-budget-office-points-us-spending-priorities-towards-great-power-conflict-part-one\/","title":{"rendered":"The Congressional Budget Office points US spending priorities towards \u201cgreat power\u201d conflict: Part One"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2>The Congressional Budget Office points US spending priorities towards \u201cgreat power\u201d conflict: Part One<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    By<br \/>\n    Nancy Hanover<br \/>\n    <br \/>18 January 2019<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p>A report published by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) in December invokes explicitly, for the first time, the shift to \u201cgreat power\u201d conflicts in making a case for the growth of military funding.<\/p>\n<p>Explaining the ever-escalating military budget, it states, \u201cthe most recent Nuclear Posture Review, released in 2018, concludes that the geopolitical environment has deteriorated markedly since the last Nuclear Posture Review in 2010 and that the world has returned to a state of \u2018Great Power\u2019 competition.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While the document provides suggestions for massive cuts in social programs to address the $778 billion US debt, \u201cOptions for Reducing the Deficit: 2019 to 2028\u201d makes the case that any reduction to military funding would potentially undermine the American ability to conduct war.<\/p>\n<p>It warns, \u201cthe Army has soldiers in more than 140 countries, all four military services are buying highly sophisticated military weaponry to fight against Russia or China, and DoD [Department of Defense] is modernizing all elements of its nuclear forces\u201d\u2014initiatives which they opine could be compromised by any infringement on military spending.<\/p>\n<p>The CBO, which claims to be above politics, states that in line with the \u201cincreasing assertiveness with which Russia and China conduct foreign relations,\u201d the world \u201cappears to be entering an era of renewed competition between major powers.\u201d The CBO is rehashing the incessant US propaganda proclaiming Russia to be a military juggernaut menacing its neighbors although the country spent $66.3 billion on its military in 2017, little more than one-tenth what the US spends every year. In&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2019\/01\/18\/cbor-j18.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 The Congressional Budget Office points US spending priorities towards \u201cgreat power\u201d conflict: Part One By Nancy Hanover 18 January 2019 A report published by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) in December invokes explicitly, for the first time, the shift to \u201cgreat power\u201d conflicts in making a case for the growth of military funding. Explaining [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-393365","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}