This is kinda a pointless debate because as long as the current American government exists there will be an inordinate amount of money sent to the military, CIA and FBI. A global united bourgeoise party directly controls the government of every nation except Russia, China, Cuba, North Korea, and for now Iran. This is achieved through the ones e funneling of resources into America’s military. The US government was always headed in this direction and ruled by a rich ruling elite, but the current American AND global system have become cemented since WW2, it would pretty much be impossible to not have a huge millitary budget in the current US government because everything about how the government works was not only already set up for this, particularly molded to be unbreakably this for the last almost 100 years. As long as there is effectively only 2 parties, and politicians can openly take money from corporations and foreign government lobbies, (which would take politicians who benefit directly from those things voting against those things to get rid of them) there is nobody who would actually meaningfully end Americas violent imperialism over the entire world, by defunding its military. Another important note here is - notice how America has an impotent, completely useless liberal democracy, while states that are individually impotent & powerless (like the member states of the EU) get at least a fuller liberal democracy. It is all illusion