Administration Quote by Noam Chomsky

I think that Putin's strategy has been throwing a lot of money, fairly haphazardly, at a lot of projects aimed at disrupting Western relations…

— Masha Gessen

The 'defense' budget is three quarters of a trillion dollars. Profits went up last year well over 25%. I guarantee you: when war becomes…

— Chalmers Johnson

Global military spending levels constitute an unconscionable use of resources and remain at an all-time high, reaching a total of USD 1.75 trillion in…

— Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

Russia is really a sort of a nonentity when it comes to - the economy is the size of the state of New York.…

— Bill Browder

The costs of the Bush-Obama wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are now estimated to run as high as $4.4 trillion - a major victory…

— Noam Chomsky

The Russian economy is tanking. It's gotten so bad that today Vladimir Putin had to pawn his stolen Super Bowl ring. And Putin will…

— David Letterman

It is clear that while our Army was engaged in Afghanistan and Iraq, Russia studied U.S. capabilities and vulnerabilities and embarked on an ambitious…

— H. R. McMaster

Their [the U.S.’s] defense budget in absolute figures is almost 25 times bigger than Russia’s. This is what in defense is referred to as…

— Vladimir Putin

“And every year the Pentagon bite of the federal dollar got bigger and bigger. In Reagan’s eight years in office, military expenditure doubled from…

— Rachel Maddow

In a sense, the central problem in U.S.-Russian relations has been a form of psychological projection. Putin views foreign policy as a means of…

— Tom Malinowski

Rebuilding the military is something Putin will pay attention to.

— Jack Keane

We see a more assertive Russia, which has implemented a very significant military buildup over several years, and a Russia which has used military…

— Jens Stoltenberg