{"id":56780,"date":"2025-12-22T04:49:27","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T12:49:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=56780"},"modified":"2025-12-22T04:49:27","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T12:49:27","slug":"santa-claus-is-coming-to-the-pentagon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/22\/santa-claus-is-coming-to-the-pentagon\/","title":{"rendered":"Santa Claus Is Coming to the Pentagon"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Pentagon has failed seven audits in a row. It hasn\u2019t won a major war since 1945. Money and assets that are missing or otherwise unaccounted for measure in the trillions of dollars. This year\u2019s Pentagon budget is roughly another trillion dollars. The cost of new nuclear weapons and the so-called golden dome defense system will likely exceed $2 trillion. No matter how naughty and wasteful the Pentagon is, it\u2019s always getting more money from Santa Claus. What gives?<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s time for Krampus<\/a> to come to the Pentagon. Krampus is the half-goat, half-demon that punishes naughty boys and girls.<\/p>\n

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Come, Krampus, come! There are greedy naughty spoiled boys and girls at the Pentagon and within the MICIMATT(SH)* that deserve a bit of punishment.<\/p>\n

But I sense even Krampus is cowed by the Complex.<\/p>\n

*military industrial congressional intelligence media academe think tank (sports and Hollywood) complex. Too scary for Krampus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Pentagon has failed seven audits in a row. It hasn\u2019t won a major war since 1945. Money and assets that are missing or otherwise unaccounted for measure in the trillions of dollars. This year\u2019s Pentagon budget is roughly another trillion dollars. The cost of new nuclear weapons and the so-called golden dome defense system […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":290,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[758],"class_list":["post-56780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"0","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":"Where's Krampus When You Need Him?"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/290"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56780"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56787,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56780\/revisions\/56787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56780"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=56780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}