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This is a bipartisan issue I think since people from both sides of the party have talked about it. 2 former presidents have mentioned it. One president warned the country about them.
Two questions.
Do you think they exist and are manipulating the country behind the scenes to be at war forever for their own profit?
and more importantly, how do you think they can be stopped?
Yes. Dwight warned us.
It's easy to lose sight of how America wasn't a military power before WW2. Then the military had to expand for the war effort and to contain Russia post WW2 and serve as an offshore balancer to the USSR. But I think reality is in this day and age, it really isn't remotely needed to have military spending greater than the next 10 nations in the world combined, but lobbying and special interests groups have such a firm wedge into the political arena....
Wait, so you did make a mistake ?
Also I really don’t remember Bush ever running on an anti MIC platform. I also do t remember Obama ever talking about it
Nation building and the MIC are related but they aren’t the same thing. He could still fuel the MIC without engaging in nation building. But I’m also confused as to why he would have campaigned on that platform. What Nation were we building in 2000?Yes 180 is half a circle meaning you went to the other side of the room, 360 is a full circle meaning you end up at your original position. Isa was correct.
He did. By 2008 that seemed like another universe but in 2000 Bush campaigned on being done with "nation building".
I don't think they drive the world into wars for their own profit.
It's overrated TBH completely honest.... MIC is basically high-end, incredibly important manufacturing that provides critical jobs and takes in cash that's then spent on R&D. Don't let China catch you sleepin'This is a bipartisan issue I think since people from both sides of the party have talked about it. 2 former presidents have mentioned it. One president warned the country about them.
Two questions.
Do you think they exist and are manipulating the country behind the scenes to be at war forever for their own profit?
and more importantly, how do you think they can be stopped?
Love it or hate it, the arms industry is a vital part of the American economy that directly or indirectly employs millions of workers all over the world from manufacturing to research. Many high skill and well paid jobs.
US government military spending is basically a social welfare program at this point.