{"id":40189,"date":"2018-11-06T08:17:27","date_gmt":"2018-11-06T13:17:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=40189"},"modified":"2018-11-06T08:17:27","modified_gmt":"2018-11-06T13:17:27","slug":"russia-u-s-instead-spends-on-military","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=40189","title":{"rendered":"Russia & China Invest in Infrastructure; U.S. Instead Spends on Military"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Russia & China Invest in Infrastructure; U.S. Instead Spends on Military<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n

China\u2019s \u201cBelt and Road Initiative\u201d is famous as an extension of their domestic infrastructure investments, but Russia is also investing heavily in infrastructure. Both countries need to do it in order to improve the future for their respective populations, and both Governments have avoided the Western development model of going heavily into debt in order to pay for creating and maintaining infrastructure. Both are, in fact, exceptionally low-debt Governments.<\/p>\n

According to the\u00a0\u201cGlobal Debt Clock\u201d<\/a>\u00a0at\u00a0Economist<\/em>, China has a public debt\/GDP of 17.7%, and Russia\u2019s is 8.0%. For comparison, America\u2019s is 93.6%. (Others are: Germany 85.8%, Spain 91.2%, Italy 122.6%, Greece 147.1%, India 54.2%, Pakistan 47.0%, and Brazil 55.0%.)<\/p>\n

The United States isn\u2019t going into public debt in order to finance building or maintenance of infrastructure, but instead to finance expansions of its military, which is already (and by far) the world\u2019s largest (in terms of its costs, but not of its numbers of troops).<\/p>\n

While\u00a0the US Government now spends around half of the world\u2019s military expenditures<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0plans to conquer Russia, China, and all countries (such as Iran and Syria) that cooperate with those \u2018enemies\u2019<\/a>\u00a0(and please click onto a link wherever you question the truthfulness of an allegation made here), Russia and China plan to improve their infrastructures, in order to boost their national economies and to minimize the impacts that (the\u00a0mainly US-caused<\/a>) global warming will have. These infrastructure projects are optimistic and long-term expenditures, which are being planned and built only because the countries that the US aristocracy are targeting to conquer, expect the US aristocracy to fail to achieve its clear #1 goal, of controlling the entire world and conquering them \u2014 of America\u2019s rulers finally achieving the global fascist empire that, in World War II, Hitler and the other Axis powers had been\u00a0hoping\u00a0<\/em>to become.<\/p>\n

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Russia & China Invest in Infrastructure; U.S. Instead Spends on Military China\u2019s \u201cBelt and Road Initiative\u201d is famous as an extension of their domestic infrastructure investments, but Russia is also investing heavily in infrastructure. Both countries need to do it in order to improve the future for their respective populations, and both Governments have avoided […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[130,195,4394,427,1063,694,8203,827,843,844],"class_list":["post-40189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-geopolitics","tag-china","tag-debt","tag-eric-zuesse","tag-infrastructure","tag-military-expenditures","tag-russia","tag-strategic-culture-foundation","tag-united-states","tag-us-government","tag-us-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40189"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40190,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40189\/revisions\/40190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}