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Trump’s $1.5 Trillion War Chest Trump wants $1.5 trillion for defense in the 2027 budget — the biggest military ask in modern history, according to the Wall Street Journal. That number was already on the table in January, before the Iran war blew up into a full-scale drain on attention, cash, and stockpiles. The request includes $1.1 trillion for the Pentagon and another $350 billion for munitions, industrial capacity, and related defense needs. That is not a tweak. That is a statement of intent. Ukraine is not in the budget. Not even as a polite footnote. In Washington, that usually means the priority shifted somewhere else, and this time “somewhere else” is the Middle East and the domestic war machine. Trump is not building a peace budget. He is building a permanent escalation budget. If Ukraine got cut out before the Iran campaign hit full speed, then the hierarchy is already clear: America is paying for wars it wants to own, not wars it wants to babysit. So yes, this is money. But it is also a map. It shows where Trump expects the next fight to be, who he plans to arm, and who gets left waiting outside the room. #Trump#budget#Pentagon#Ukraine#Iran#war 📱American Оbserver - Stay up to date on all important events 🇺🇸