America’s Perpetual War: Six Questions

Former American President Jimmy Carter said in 2018 that in America, there were 226 years of wars since its independence which took place 242 years ago thus leaving only 16 years of peace.

Since WWII, there were 32 American military conflicts involving dozens of countries. Some of these military conflicts have lasted for over twenty years and some others are still continuing.

In other words, the U.S. is a country of perpetual war. War is terribly destructive human activity. Millions of human beings have been sacrificed. Tens of trillions of dollars worth of housing, school, factories, hospitals and other infrastructure facilities have been destroyed in the countries which have been the target of American military attacks.

The perpetual war has destroyed the very foundation of freedom and democracy; it has prevented healthy and equitable economic development of the world; it has led to the violation of human rights; it has ruined traditional values of many countries and, above all, it has caused lasting human suffering.

America’s multi-trillion dollar perpetual war has denied and deprived millions of Americans of decent income, adequate housing, needed foods, necessary health care, safety on the street, reliable infrastructure facilities, essential education and other goods and services needed for descent living.

[globalresearch.ca]

I'd say it's deeply concerning, but I've been helped through my news sources to make this point over the years to you on multiple occasions on this one section. Knowing many don't bother to even read the articles I post to apply a respectful comment, this one I'll add here.

{Now, to have war, one has to have enemies. But, the war corporations do not have the research capacity to find real enemies or produce fabricated enemies. The role of finding or fabricating enemies goes to the think tanks which are lavishly funded by the war corporations.

When the think tanks find or manufacture enemies, new wars or the continuation of old wars are justified.

Now, on the other hand, the pressure groups put pressure on law makers and policy makers to recognize the identities of enemies produced by the think tanks; this is done through lobbying (bribes giving).

As for the media, they have the role of preparing the mind and the souls of Americans to accept the monstrous defence budget without being aware of the destructive consequences of the perpetual wars.

It goes without saying that both the pressure groups and the media are funded by the war corporations.

The demand for war goods and services created by these pro-war individuals and organizations is translated into the annual defence budget of the U.S amounting, in 2023, to as much as $886 billion.

Imagine this. Washington’s 2023 defence budget is 50% of South Korea’s 2023 GDP of $1.8 trillion. The American defence budget is 40 % of the global defence budget of $ 2.2 trillion.

The big five: Lockheed Martin, Raytheon Technologies, Boeing, Northrop Grumman, General Dynamics gets as much as $150 billion out of the defence budget.

Think Tanks
The think tanks play major role in perpetuating the American wars. Their function is to produce reports and papers to show the seriousness of crisis and the need for increasing military budget so that the crisis can be tackled by military force.

The following shows how some major think tanks are lavishly funded by war corporations. The data are provided by a Global Research paper (Amanda Yee: Six War Managing Think Tank and the Military Contractors that fund them, March 7, 2023)

I'm not going to go through all that, but in a nut shell. All of the above, as Peter Phillips exposed it the discussion with Abby Martin on his book---Giants--Who Really Rules the World---is that think tanks and NGOs, who are funded by the elite international ruling class, fabricate the means to manufacture enemies, obviously, the wars that come with them. Along with public relation firms who manufacture the mis/disinformation they deliver within a 24/7 campaign to sell us a delusional reality.

You might ask why it's that there's an international aspect of ruling class that are funding these wars and our information delivery? Well, the obvious reason, as Phillips exposed, is capitalist profits. War is currently the largest profit generating construct they have. It feeds all of their corporations. That's pretty much clarified in the beginning of the article. Finding other means to make profit from are limited and also need to be manufactured. Mostly related to privatizing the rest of our societies. I don't want to clutter this up with the technological aspect that is being suppressed now though.

But for an example. See Gaza! Why aren't the other Muslim Arab nations coming to the defense of Palestinians? Only injecting slight denunciation. Have no intentions, at least to this point, of allowing them into their countries either. Because they are basically billionaire wealthy family run and or kingdoms that are heavily tied to and rely on the western capitalist system to survive. Basically, each with their own committed crimes on humanity, heavy handed laws, suppression of rights, and societies that operate on variations of slavery and human trafficking, which they're allowed to get away with as long as they bow to the capitalist system and don't upset it with drastic personals betrayal. The leaders and the enriched circle they keep around them are part of the international elite.

I'll let you finish the rest.