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Theres an incentive for certain aspects of empire to endorse wars but in the last instance the only reason the military industrial complex exists is in order to support the war efforts of empire not the other way around. The US got a lot out of destroying iraq and libya and syria and Afghanistan in its efforts to gain control over SWANA and control the choke point between asia africa and europe as well as the constant capital in the soil.
The tendency for capitalism is to expand but just like the collapse of the roman empire, infinite expansion is not sustainable on a planet w a finite limit of resources.
Theres probably something else to be said as well about the second characteristic of imperialism which is that war destroys capital which creates room for more growth.
Read through it and think the ideas are fine but pointing to it as a ponzi scheme and not an inherent contradiction of capitalism makes it seem like theres some "long term thinking capitalism" solution that doesnt exist
yea this analysis reads like the typical liberal marvel brained analysis except they correctly recognize that "america bad" instead of "eastern hordes/terrorists bad"
Yeah reading the article i noticed a distinct lack of materialist thinking, and last three paragraphs really nailed it in.
This scheme only works when US isn't directly involved in the wars. So, I don't think starting WW3 is what they'd want. The idea is to have long running limited scale conflicts or a cold war where constant military spending can be justified.
Why is gotta be endless sequels? Can't Hollywood make any new IP?
If I'm not mistaken, this is the reason Max Azzarello decided to self-immolate, to call attention to the massive Ponzi Scheme.
No one today would accuse Americans of being alert and knowledgeable. It's a nation of debt slaves, thinking they're philosopher kings because they get to give a Facebook thumbs up ...
Hah... that's so right! ... Wait... oh shit... they're talking about me.
My time as a silly fucking child in the Army 20+ years ago reminds me that I was very shocked at the lack of maintenance or even care to diligently maintain most vehicles/equipment beyond "its good enough to not get in trouble because nobody with rank knows enough to be able to tell how broken the thing really is."
Funny enough NATO "leftists" like Lazerpig accuse the current Russian military of that same "good enough not to get in trouble" non-maintenance. Every accusation a confession!
Lazerpig explaining how the t14 is actually two pigs under a blanket holding hands
I liked lazerpig more when I was binging his entire channel while drowning out the pain of an ear infection with alcohol a few years ago (before the SMO).
Made for a far better experience than trying to wade through slava ukraini nonsense, and being sober.
How had I not heard before that Iran's attack hit the officer's swimming pool at Nevatim air base? That is way too funny.
: "Heh, what if we turned 99% of people into literal human cattle?"
: "Wait, you mean the cattle we fed poison to are in no condition to be our attack dogs? You mean some of them caught on and don't WANT to be our attack dogs?"
