Gregory's ServerThe Military Industrial Complex is driven by many of the similar factors you have noted.
As Eisenhower put it, "The problem with
Defense is how far your can go without destroying from within that which you are trying to defend from without."
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@Smalltofeds Fully agreed, and I think it's telling that it's the former Supreme Commander of Allied Forces in Western Europe who coined the phrase.
American business profited massively from the Second World War, and was unable to wean itself off the government spending afterwards. They may talk capitalism, but is really a very toxic variant of socialism (since arms makers rely primarily on government funding rather than the free market).
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