Important Takeaways:

• Russia is beating us in Ukraine. China’s Navy outnumbers the US. The Army is collapsing – and the Air Force is falling from the sky. So, as Biden inexplicably CUTS defense budgets, ANDREW NEIL blasts: Does he have a death wish?
• From the very start of his State of the Union address last week, President Biden positioned himself as a war president.
• He posed as the champion of freedom and democracy which are threatened across the globe by autocrats on the march
• All the more remarkable then that, within days, the Biden administration produced plans for defense spending with all the hallmarks of a peace president who no longer thinks the US military need be a priority.
• The autocrats must be both baffled and amused. The rest of us should be frightened and angry.
• Biden proposes that defense spending should rise to $895 billion in the next (2025) financial year — an increase of barely 1 percent.
• It’s not that there’s no extra money around. The Biden budget will add over a trillion to federal spending and take it to a record peacetime, non-pandemic share of GDP (25 percent).
• Be in no doubt that the autocrats in Moscow, Beijing, Tehran and Pyongyang are taking serious notice.
• The Chinese Naval fleet is already bigger than America’s and is on target to be over 400-strong before the decade is out — a formidable armada that will undoubtedly be used to intimidate Taiwan.
• Americans have rightly criticized the Europeans for putting welfare above military needs. But under Biden, America is doing the same — just another example of how he is ‘Europeanizing’ the USA.
• Yet the Russian economy is now on a total war footing, able to resupply its invaders in Ukraine at a greater scale than we are resupplying Kyiv and, as America struggles to find an extra 1 percent for its military, China has just announced an increase of over 7 percent for its armed forces.

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