美国军费预算高达1.5万亿美元，这对印度/中国意味着什么？

@oileengrace8228
There are two things that are infinite, the universe and the human stupidity! The latter is clear.

有两样东西是无限的，一是宇宙，二是人类的愚蠢！后者是显而易见的。

@rore410
Amazing reporting on your part. Be careful and take care of yourself. Truth hurts. Thank you for your bravery.

你的报道令人惊叹。请小心并照顾好自己。真相很伤人。感谢你的勇敢。

@kenari5763
with all the proposed sanctions, i think the us citizens will get hurt the most not China and the rest of asia

在所有的制裁建议中，我认为最受伤的是美国公民而不是中国和亚洲其他国家。

@mohmeegaik6686
As a Christian, I would like to say to the innocent US citizens who hates wars-mongering.
You have a responsibility to restrain those of your politicians who are war-mongering instead of peace-making.
For God had said the following:
Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows. --Galatians 6: 7 :(NIV)
For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his soul? -- Mark 8: 36
Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God. -- Matt 5: 9
ps. The fool says in his heart, "There is no God." -- Psalm 14: 1

作为一名基督徒，我想对那些憎恨战争贩子的无辜美国公民说：你们有责任约束那些战争贩子。
你们有责任约束那些制造战争而非和平的政客。
因为上帝曾说过：
不要被欺骗：上帝是不可嘲弄的。种瓜得瓜，种豆得豆。--加拉太书 6: 7：（新约圣经）
人若赚得全世界，赔上自己的灵魂，有什么益处呢？-- 马可福音 8：36

缔造和平的人有福了，因为他们必称为神的儿女。-- 马太福音 5：9
ps. 愚顽人心里说：“没有神”。-- 诗篇 14: 1

@charleskesner1302
The big question is... how far will Europe go in this deranged strategy? Hope countries like France could turn the needle... No expectations on Britain or Germany, though.

最大的问题是......欧洲会在这一疯狂战略中走多远？希望像法国这样的国家能扭转局势...我对英国或德国不抱期望。

@myresponsesarelimited7895
The philosophical trends of phenomenology, post modernism etc. put forward the view that all is relative, there is no truth. Every body has their own truth. The problem with this view is that the person with the deepest pockets, has the deepest truth, and those with the biggest guns are those with the most powerful truths.

现象学、后现代主义等哲学思潮提出了“一切都是相对的，没有真理”的观点，并认为每个主体都有自己的真理。这种观点的问题在于口袋最鼓的人拥有最深的真理，枪支最大的人拥有最强大的真理。

@gabrielperez4961
Don’t get it ️, it is like creating an illusion, wasting more time and money to sustain it. For what………. to prolong this delusion?
Better to use the time and money on more practical and meaningfully things that can actually improve the lives of others.

我不明白，这就像制造一个幻觉并浪费更多的时间和金钱去维持它。这是为了什么..........？
还不如把时间和金钱用在更实际、更有意义，真正改善他人的生活的事情上。

@NicoNico-te2tk
If American truly want their beloved United States of America to be a great, benevolent and respectable nation, Americans need to do the following.
(1) Force the two parties, democrats and republicans, to put up two fresh and respectable candidates for the presidential elections.
(2) Demand an end to political lobbying by arms manufacturers; gun ownership societies and clubs, etc.
(3) Demand an end to having clowns; lunatics and fools entering politics. Currently, United States Congress has a high percentage of such politicians.
Americans deserve to have a much higher standard of the country's government.
United States of America must avoid walking along a path that sinks the country into the abyss of insanity.

如果美国人真的希望他们所热爱的美利坚合众国成为一个伟大、仁慈和受人尊敬的国家，那么美国人需要做到以下几点。
(1) 迫使民主党和共和党这两个政党在总统选举中推出两位新的、值得尊敬的候选人。
(2) 要求军火制造商、持枪协会和俱乐部等停止政治游说。
(3) 要求停止让小丑、疯子和傻瓜从政。目前，美国国会中这类政客的比例很高。

美国人理应对国家政府有更高的要求。
美国必须避免走上一条使国家陷入疯狂深渊的道路。

@fzmoifzmoi2575
There are countries that can't do anything about the US gov. What can the citizens do? There is nothing they can do except be complicit and hope their gov's actions will have a positive result in their life, which is wishful thinking.

很多国家对美国政府也无能为力，美国公民能做什么？除了同流合污，希望政府的行为能给他们的生活带来积极的影响外，他们什么也做不了。

@alwaysright6358
You still think America's actions abroad is for freedom democracy? You think America can do to China what it has done to others without suffering as much?

你还认为美国的海外行动是为了自由民主吗？你以为美国可以对中国做它对别人做过的事而不用受那么多痛苦吗？

@michaelnaemsch3102
The only thing that binds the americans is the have a very prosperous life and they called their country the land of milk and honey so almost everyone wants to have a piece of that paradise on earth. But nowadays, many things have changed, life became harder and opportunity got more scarse, the number of homeless skyroccketed, the glue that binds the americans is slowly melting and when it reached its limits it will stop working and the result will be catastrophic, aside from that, many americans now already scaped ignorance and the number of people got awaken is increasing exponentially, so i dont think that plan to sabotage China will work. In my opinion it will not progress because the glue that binds the americans is not the same as before, it has almost reached its limits.

唯一将美国人联系在一起的是他们拥有非常富裕的生活，他们称自己的国家为“牛奶与蜂蜜之国”，因此几乎每个人都想在这个人间天堂分一杯羹。但如今，许多事情都发生了变化，这里生活变得更加艰难，机会变得更加稀少，无家可归者的数量急剧上升，团结美国人的粘合剂正在慢慢融化，当它达到极限时就会停止工作，结果将是灾难性的，除此之外，现在许多美国人已经摆脱了无知，觉醒的人数正在成倍增加，所以我认为破坏中国的计划不会成功。在我看来，它不会取得任何进展，因为团结美国人的胶水与以前不同，它几乎已经达到极限。

@workingproleinc.676
The defeated of soviet unxs was the helped of China. China helped the taliban afghanistan and also clashed with vietnam in 1979 because vietnam expansion in combodia. America claimed all the credits but it was China and united stated that defeated soviet unx.

苏联的失败是由于中国的帮助。中国帮助了阿富汗塔利班，1979年还因为越南在柬埔寨的扩张而与越南发生冲突。虽然美国声称自己居功至伟，但打败苏联的是中国和美国的联合。

@omarrymad7699
The war against terror had the problem that terrorists are best handled by undercover agents, police and army infantry.
The Military Industrial Complex needs identifiable military powers like the Soviet unx, North Korea or China to justify trillion dollar war budgets. No, they are not defence budgets, Russia, China, South East Asia, South America, Africa and Europe do not want wars. They want economic growth through mutually beneficial trade.

反恐战争存在一个问题，即恐怖分子最好由卧底、警察和陆军步兵来对付。
军事工业综合体需要苏联、朝鲜或中国等明显的军事强国来证明它们数以万亿美元战争预算的合理性。不，它们不是国防预算，俄罗斯、中国、东南亚、南美、非洲和欧洲都不想要战争，他们希望通过互利的贸易实现经济增长。

@bobjuniel8683
The USD budget is a non issue because the USA debt is increasing at an exponential growth rate where at today's rate of 1 Trillion dollars every 90 days will be increasing at 1 Trillion dollars every 11 days in 2026 and 1 Trillion dollars every 2 days in 2027. The US debt will break 1 Quadrillion dollars by 2028. This means that all income purchase power will be 10% of today's purchasing power making inflation doubling every 3 months in 2026. 1 month in 2027 and each week in 2028. This is all in USD. So, get rid of your USD and use Bitcoin!! Educate yourself on Bitcoin and use it people!!!

美元预算不是问题，因为美国的债务正以指数级的速度增长，按照现在每90天增加1万亿美元的速度，到2026年将以每11天增加1万亿美元的速度增长，到2027年将以每2天增加1万亿美元的速度增长。到2028年，美国债务将突破1 Quadrillion（千的五次方）美元。这意味着所有收入的购买力将是今天购买力的10%，这将使得2026年的通货膨胀每3个月翻一番，这一数字在2027年为1个月，2028年为每周。这些都是以美元计算的。所以，扔掉你的美元，使用比特币吧！！

@ccljager424
They grandparents tried that since 1949,l can't see there is any workable way left to achieve that target.
Even Cuba is living well today,US government is a joke.Too many jobs to do.

他们祖祖辈辈从1949年就开始这样做了，我看不出还有什么可行的办法来实现这个目标。
连古巴今天都生活得很好，美国政府就是个笑话，它们要做的事情太多了。

@rockychan4739
Macron didn't boast, he actually sent 100 soldiers to Ukraine. Russia kept its words as well. A missile strike sent 80 of them to see St, Peter, the other 20 are being attended to by Nightingale.

马克龙没有夸夸其谈，他真的向乌克兰派遣了100名士兵。俄罗斯也说话算话，导弹袭击让他们中的80人去见了圣彼得，另外20人则由南丁格尔照顾。

@kakayou546
The most destructive of storms never have the ability to last and indeed, never ever fail to yield to calm! Only the survivors of such storms are the ones who understand the value of peace and calm cannot be better resonated than when a storm does erupt!

最具破坏力的风暴从来都不会持久，事实上，它也从来都不会归于平静！只有在暴风雨中幸存下来的人才会懂得平静的可贵，而平静也会比暴风雨来临时更能引起人们的共鸣！

@MrHHNg
Every sanctions and tariff US imposes on China, makes them stronger, far stronger reducing US manufacturing sales, not just to China, but as Chinese develop alternatives they can now sell these to US customers.

美国对中国施加的每一次制裁和关税都会使他们变得更强大并大大减少美国制造的产品的销售，而且随着中国开发出替代产品，他们现在可以将这些产品卖给美国客户。

@GloWinGlo
of course, world in general would welcome these measures by US Govt of putting huge tariffs on Chinese products.. many other countries would be benefited as US needs those products - only people that would be affected would be US Citizens who must pay a higher price for the same products, and for some time at least, products of lower quality

当然，全世界都会欢迎美国政府对中国产品征收巨额关税的这些措施，因为美国需要这些产品，许多其他国家也会从中受益--唯一受到影响的是美国公民，他们必须为同样的产品支付更高的价格，而且至少在一段时间内，产品的质量会下降。

@chancelafranceism
The US can try all it can, but China out competes the US in almost all industries. Imagine trying to build battle ships to replace ones lost in battle. The US churns out 2-3 every couple of years. China will churn out 10-20 times that. Just look a drones, bullets, rockets, mortars, etc...hands down, the US has no ability to fight a protracted war with China. Just look at Ukraine as an example. I.e. the US has already lost.

美国可以尽其所能，但中国几乎在所有行业都胜过美国。试想一下，如果要建造战舰来替换在战斗中损失的战舰，美国每两三年只能生产出2-3艘，而中国的产量将是美国的10-20倍。再看看无人机、子弹、火箭弹、迫击炮等......以乌克兰为例，毫无疑问，美国没有能力与中国打持久战。也就是说，美国已经输了。

@stevennurahmed5105
Ben Norton @ 26:29, I agree. The U.S. is basically a war economy it subsist on money, resources, and human lives to perpetuate itself. If you have the time would you give us an overview of the basic theses stated in the classic book:The Permanent War Economy, by Seymour Melman. Your analyses are very thorough. Keep up the good work.

@ 26:29，我同意。美国基本上就是一个战争经济体，它靠金钱、资源和人命来维持自己的生存。如果您有时间，能否向我们概述一下西摩-梅尔曼（Seymour Melman）的经典著作《永久的战争经济》（The Permanent War Economy）中阐述的基本论点。您的分析非常透彻，请继续加油。

@goranvujasinovic2888
The best part of this situation is that Chinese leaders are too smart to fall for this type of threats. They don't panic, they just keep growing their economy, attract more and more people from the parts of the world that experienced policies of the West and the US to work with them so when time comes they can shake off the West including the US like a bad case of fleas. Unfortunately for us that time is not so far in the future. Right now China's economy may still need the West but developing their own market and markets in undeveloped world will bring China's need for us get smaller and smaller while our need for China and world markets will grow bigger and bigger. Therefore, our desperate attempts to prevent that from happening will only make China and the rest of the world dislike us more and motivate them to cooperate with us less and less. How shortsighted is our business and political elite!! Are we not capable of competing using quality of products instead of relying only on dominating and controlling markets?

这种情况最妙的是中国领导人太聪明了，他们不会被这种威胁所迷惑。他们并没有惊慌失措，只是不断发展经济，从世界上经历过西方和美国政策的地区吸引越来越多的人与他们合作。这样当时机成熟时，他们就可以像甩掉跳蚤一样甩掉包括美国在内的西方国家。不幸的是，对我们来说，这个时间并不遥远。现在，中国的经济可能仍然需要西方，但发展自己的市场和不发达国家的市场将使中国对我们的需求越来越小，而我们对中国和世界市场的需求将越来越大。因此，我们拼命阻止这种情况的发生只会让中国和世界其他国家更加厌恶我们，促使他们越来越少地与我们合作。我们的商界和政界精英是多么短视啊！难道我们没有能力用质量来竞争，而不是仅仅依靠主导和控制市场吗？

@trangtram8935
I can't visualise how surprised the late LKY ( the founding father of Singapore ) would be if he were alive today to see that his comment (to the late Richard Nixon) about the Soviets' attitude & behaviour would fit squarely on America too.
In the 70s', at the White House, LKY told Nixon that China would trust America more than the Soviet because America was more reliable & trustworthy ... whereas the Soviet had no conscience and would withdraw its engineers and technological know-how at any time when they felt "dissatisfied & uncomfortable"
It is really a surprise to realise how a superpower like America (so many times more advanced than China) can lose its self-confidence so easily and has to gang-up with its Allies (in the so-called free world) to blacklist, sanction and contain the rise of China.

我无法想象，如果已故的新加坡开国元勋李光耀（LKY）今天还在世，看到他（已故的理查德-尼克松（Richard Nixon））关于苏联的态度和行为的评论也完全适用于美国，他会有多么惊讶。
上世纪70年代，李显龙在白宫告诉尼克松，中国会更信任美国而不是苏联，因为美国更可靠、更值得信赖......而苏联没有良心，当他们感到“不满意和不舒服”时，就会随时撤回其工程师和技术知识。

真没想到美国这样的超级大国（比中国先进那么多倍）怎么会如此轻易地失去自信并不得不与其盟国（所谓的自由世界）拉帮结派，将中国列入黑名单，进行制裁以遏制中国的崛起。

@j85grim4
we have a bet going that after Ukraine is finished, the US and NATO next victim will be either Tawain, Philippines, South Korea, Japan, Tawain was in the lead, but Philippines is catching up lol.

我们打赌，乌克兰问题解决后，美国和北约的下一个受害者将是台湾（地区）、菲律宾、韩国、日本。

@gohkianhui3997
Mainstream ideology has twisted the meaning of "free market" into the opposite of what the classical economists like Adam Smith intended. The classical economists defined a free market as free FROM economic rents (unearned income), extracted by feudal landlords. The classical role of government is to keep natural monopolies in the public domain and tax away economic rents to use it to lower the cost of production. This is done through subsidies for such things as public infrastructure, education, and health care, not raising the cost of living and therefore the cost of labor, as with neoliberal monopolistic privatization.
Mainstream Austrian and Libertarian Chicago School neoliberals have no role for the government in the economy, leaving the market free FOR economic rents, extracted by monopolies and the banks (FIRE, finance, insurance, and real estate). Because the economy does not stay out of government, the result is rule by the rentier oligarchy, otherwise called feudalism.
These two approaches, industrial capitalism and financial capitalism, are what the new cold war is all about, and it is the story of financial capitalism sucking ever more life out of once vibrant US industrial capitalism.
“It is suggested that the tipping point for being a rentier economy is when 40 per cent of income comes from rent. Even if just interest and dividends are counted as rent, the USA is already at that point.”
Standing, Guy. The Corruption of Capitalism (p. 114). 2016

主流意识形态扭曲了“自由市场”的含义，与亚当-斯密等古典经济学家的初衷背道而驰。古典经济学家将自由市场定义为不受封建地主榨取经济租金（不劳而获的收入）的影响的市场，政府的传统角色是将自然垄断保留在公共领域并对经济租金征税以降低生产成本。这是通过对公共基础设施、教育和医疗保健等提供补贴来实现的，而不是像新自由主义垄断私有化那样提高生活成本，进而提高劳动力成本。

主流的奥地利学派和自由主义芝加哥学派的新自由主义者认为，政府在经济中不扮演任何角色，它们应该让市场自由地由垄断企业和银行（FIRE、金融、保险和房地产）榨取经济租金。由于经济不能脱离政府，其结果就是租界寡头的统治，也就是所谓的封建主义。
这两种方式（即工业资本主义和金融资本主义）正是新冷战的内容，也是金融资本主义从曾经充满活力的美国工业资本主义中吸取更多生命力的故事。

“有人认为，当40%的收入来自租金时，就达到了租界经济的临界点。即使只把利息和红利算作租金，美国也已经达到了这一临界点”。
Standing，Guy. 资本主义的腐败》（第 114 页）。2016

@mcrick8931
Ben needs to compare the differences between HOW the Chinese Economy operates VS how the US Economy functions. There's a very, very simple way to compare the two: the Chinese government controls where expenditures go to improve its economy for the PEOPLE of China VS the US system whereby ALL power is in the hands of the Super Wealthy. ALL profits are earned by the Super Wealthy with nary a penny that enhances common citizens in the US. End result: American citizens are earning a pittance salary while Health care, Insurance (home/auto) , Energy, Food costs (ALL owned by the very wealthy) are heaped upon the poor, the low middle class, even the middle class. They are literally destroying the lives of many millions of US citizens. It's that simple.

本需要比较一下中国经济的运行方式与美国经济的运行方式之间的差异。有一个非常、非常简单的方法来比较两者：中国政府控制着支出的去向，为中国人民改善经济；而美国的制度是所有权力都掌握在超级富豪手中，所有的利润都被超级富豪赚取，而美国的普通民众却没有一分钱的收益。最终的结果是美国公民的工资微薄，而医疗保健、保险（家庭/汽车）、能源、食品成本（全部由超级富豪所有）却压在穷人、中产阶级甚至中产阶级身上。他们正在实实在在地摧毁数百万美国公民的生活。就是这么简单。