> Defense spending doesn't contribute not even a little bit to how inflation (CPI) is being calculated, because the DoD is spending money on stuff that doesn't affect the general population. Unless everyone is trying to buy an F22, of course, and that finds its way into the CPI.

That's completely wrong.

When the government spends on defense that money is not put into a large pit somewhere at Lockheed HQ and then lit on fire. It is spent on wages, on buying things from other contractors, etc. It ends up in people's pockets just like stimulus checks do. There's no difference. This is Econ 101 stuff.

You're seriously misleading people in this thread about how CPI, inflation, and the economy as a whole works.