"In order to bring a nation to support the burdens of maintaining great military establishments, it is necessary to create an emotional state akin to War Psychology. There must be the portrayal of an external menace"
-John Foster Dulles, the U.S. Secretary of State (1888-1959) and older brother of Allen Dulles (fmr head of the OSS/CIA), financed the Bond sales for Nazis to rearm Germany after WW1
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"In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist."
-Eisenhower, 1961
BTW Under Clinton, when the Cold war was over, Lockheed Martin's guy named Bruce P. Jackson (son of William Jackson, National Security Adviser under Eisenhower) spent millions of dollars on the committee for NATO expansion in order to push a bunch of Eastern European countries into NATO. BTW, the same guy bankrolled the committee for the war in Iraq.
"It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear."
"While such an economy may produce a sense of seeming prosperity for the moment, it rests on an illusionary foundation of complete unreliability and renders among our political leaders almost a greater fear of peace than is their fear of war."
-Douglas MacArthur, five-star general
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"I went into the Army believing that if you want peace you must prepare for war. I now believe that if you prepare thoroughly for war you will get it."
-Sir John Frederick Maurice
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"Were the Soviet Union to sink tomorrow under the waters of the ocean, the American military-industrial complex would have to remain, substantially unchanged, until some other adversary could be invented. "
A film everyone should see which reinforces everything you've said, Eric, is Earth's Greatest Enemy by journalist/filmmaker Abby Martin:
https://earthsgreatestenemy.com/
"Peace is not a great business model if you sell weapons." ©
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The Triumph of the Military-Industrial Complex | Who Rules America:
youtube.com/watch?v=tWFjadLGkeU
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Why is the US always at war?
youtube.com/watch?v=SzryRhH79Cc
youtube.com/watch?v=iLbAU3xWqW0
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Blackwater. How the U.S. privatized WAR:
youtube.com/watch?v=Aycfr8Jcqb4
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How 5 Companies Control the Entire U.S. Military:
youtube.com/watch?v=Rg6_tdzH6ho
youtube.com/watch?v=ZVSNF6Td3c8
youtube.com/watch?v=lDB3L23UMCQ
"In order to bring a nation to support the burdens of maintaining great military establishments, it is necessary to create an emotional state akin to War Psychology. There must be the portrayal of an external menace"
-John Foster Dulles, the U.S. Secretary of State (1888-1959) and older brother of Allen Dulles (fmr head of the OSS/CIA), financed the Bond sales for Nazis to rearm Germany after WW1
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"In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist."
-Eisenhower, 1961
BTW Under Clinton, when the Cold war was over, Lockheed Martin's guy named Bruce P. Jackson (son of William Jackson, National Security Adviser under Eisenhower) spent millions of dollars on the committee for NATO expansion in order to push a bunch of Eastern European countries into NATO. BTW, the same guy bankrolled the committee for the war in Iraq.
youtube.com/watch?v=t0DLNDAgAwU
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"It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear."
"While such an economy may produce a sense of seeming prosperity for the moment, it rests on an illusionary foundation of complete unreliability and renders among our political leaders almost a greater fear of peace than is their fear of war."
-Douglas MacArthur, five-star general
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"I went into the Army believing that if you want peace you must prepare for war. I now believe that if you prepare thoroughly for war you will get it."
-Sir John Frederick Maurice
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"Were the Soviet Union to sink tomorrow under the waters of the ocean, the American military-industrial complex would have to remain, substantially unchanged, until some other adversary could be invented. "
-George F. Kennan, 1987
FYI - U.S. Spends more on "Defense" (now officially "The Department Of War") than the next 9 countries COMBINED -- none of whom want war with USA.
Since 1980, defense spending has risen by 62%, climbing from $506 billion to $820 billion by 2023, after adjusting for inflation.
All put on the taxpayer's credit card beginning with Reagan.
AND NOW...2025: $1,055,270,000,000 - over $1 Trillion
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"Peace president" LOL
substack.com/home/post/p-183904816