Preliminary
Perhaps in our eyes, a superpower like the United States must have enough funds, but we didn't expect that the United States, which wants to dominate in all aspects and claims to be number one, would even rely on private donations for its troops.
When a nation’s military was to rely on private donations, the so-called superpower had long been exposed in its political consumption.
As of now, the U.S. government has been suspended for more than three weeks.
All of this is a systemic crisis triggered by two fierce battles.
It is this crisis that the whole country has been dragged into unprecedented absurdity and chaos.
But it was under this panic that an anonymous donation of $1.3 billion suddenly appeared.
According to the system design of the United States, trade unions need to pass the temporary appropriation bill before the end of the fiscal year on September 30th to ensure the normal operation of the government.
But at this point in 2025, Democrats and Republicans are on the brink of spending on health care.
The Democrats insisted on ensuring the welfare of the people, while the Republicans shouted the slogan of saving money and refused to make concessions.
Politicians with a little power in their hands are busy blaming each other, completely ignoring that after 0:00 on October 1st, the federal government's accounts will be completely cut out of food.
And this led to a shutdown crisis that spread across the country.
And this stalling bitter fruit first struck those who deserve the best treatment.
The 1.3 million active-duty soldiers across the United States should have received their salaries on time became a winner.
However, the 11,000 employees of the US military base in Germany, whether American citizens or German natives, are faced with the dilemma of no income from their work.
Even this forced the German Treasury Ministry to “pay first, then repay.”
Unexpectedly, a country like the United States, which calls itself a superpower, actually played, using first and paying later. Is it possible that he regards the whole international community as Pinduoduo?
However, this matter is also quite ridiculous. A military power actually relies on its allies to support its own garrison. This is simply the biggest joke on the international stage.
What is even more ironic is that the Trump administration, in an irony of peace, first abused the Pentagon without looking at his hairstyles, and then threw $6.5 billion of emergency funds into empty checks.
But now that the next payday is already in sight, will their plan of demolishing the East Wall and supplementing the West Wall really last a long time?
And just as the U.S. army was frightened and Trump was blamed for not being able to stand up, an anonymous $300 million check was suddenly sent to the White House.
This money for the whole of America is like a stronger, and also let Trump on the side instantly find his face.
He grew up in a high-profile manner. The donors were patriots and influential friends, but he never mentioned the identity of the other party.
But if you can get out $1.300 million, then this is a paper that can’t burn.
The New York Times soon discovered the truth.
In fact, the donor is Timothy Mellon, from the Mellon family with a net worth of over $14.1 billion, and his own worth is also $1 billion. He is both a banker and a railway giant, and Trump's "hardcore gold owner".
Because he donated $20 million to Trump's campaign in 2020 and spent $165 million to help him return to the White House in 2024, even when Trump was charged with 34 felony counts, he spent $150 million in one day to "save the situation."
It is very normal for such a big brother to pay out US$130 million in the end for the entire United States.
But to be honest, this life-saving money that Trump is chasing is actually a drop in the bucket for the entire United States.
Because if you equal the 1.3 million servicemen in the United States, then every soldier can actually get $100, which is not enough for a week of living.
What's even more fatal is that this money actually tore open a huge loophole in American production.
According to the U.S. Constitution, military expenditure must be allocated by Congress. Private donations like this to fund the military are not only suspected of violating the Anti-Overspending Act, but also may hide the risk of interest transfer and even the infiltration of foreign forces.
Therefore, even if the United States received the money, Democratic Senator Coons bluntly questioned the true purpose behind the donor.
Because no one can guarantee whether donors have private demands, and whether the military will be controlled by private capital?
But even if Mr. Kuhns is one of them, the Pentagon is still holding the “general grant and acceptance right” as a shield, which directly avoids the core question of “whether the donations are legal.”
But to be honest, such a receipt only applies to funding institutions such as military schools, hospitals, and not direct military deployments.
This private rescue of the army has stood in a gray area of law and morality from the beginning.
But the trouble on the U.S. side has not yet been resolved, and the American people's livelihood crisis is about to follow.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has announced that it will suspend its supplementary nutrition assistance program starting November 1.
Once this plan is suspended, the 42 million low-income Americans, disabled people and the elderly will no longer get food tickets to buy food.
To know these people, however, there are a lot of people that can be hesitated only by means of relief funds.
So now that rescue money is gone, has caused many to feel desperate.
Even when Democrats accused the Republicans of using hunger as a weapon and called for emergency funding, the Ministry of Agriculture refused to use emergency funding only for disasters.
It's quite ridiculous to say. On the one hand, the United States now has private individuals who can donate 900 million yuan to the military to make a scene, and on the other hand, tens of millions of people are hungry.
At this time, the so-called human rights in the United States are extremely hypocritical.
What is even more chilling is that instead of having the right to solve the problem, the Trump administration has regarded the shutdown as a political weapon.
In order to force the Democratic Party to compromise, they directly froze the $11 billion facility project funds in Democratic regions
To save money, they also plan to cut federal employees massively, putting the hundreds of thousands of people who had no income in the face of unemployment, an invisible double blow.
The U.S. has been out of work for more than three weeks now, and the confrontation between the two parties in Congress has shown no signs of easing.
However, at this critical moment, Trump was actually busy going abroad to brush his sense of existence.
On November 26, he went to Malaysia to see Thailand and Cambodia sign the agreement, and then went to Japan.
He is the president of the United States, but as if the domestic crisis had nothing to do with him.
In fact, in the final analysis, this farce of the U.S. government shutdown is still the inevitable result of the failure of the U.S. political system.
When the two parties put the power struggle above the national interests, then people's livelihood and well-being will become a bargaining chip in the game.