In his farewell address President Eisenhower warned of the growing influence of the military industrial complex.
"A vital element in keeping the peace is our military establishment. Our arms must be mighty, ready for instant action, so that no potential aggressor may be tempted to risk his own destruction. . . . American makers of plowshares could, with time and as required, make swords as well. But now we can no longer risk emergency improvisation of national defense; we have been compelled to create a permanent armaments industry of vast proportions. . . . This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. . . . Yet we must not fail to comprehend its grave implications. . . . 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."
Now President Biden has warned us of the growing influence of the tech industrial complex. You can fairly easily substitute the tech industry for the armaments industry. We didn't listen very well then will we now?
the military industrial complex has become so corrupt they only produce very few, very expensive kit now. But Ukraine has shown this military industrial congressional complex up as the paper tiger it is.
The US has no surge capacity for a real war. There are no more plow factories to start making swords. So when the time comes for actual defense, you are good for a few weeks. Unable to tame the Houthis who instead chase off aircraft carriers.
The crazy thing is no-one would invade the USA anyway, they are armed to the teeth and 36 trillion in debt with massive social problem. Who would want to take charge of that basket case? Civil war far more realistic if conflict occurs on US soil.
Genocide Joe just pardoned his family, Fauci and a General and democrat sycophants. Now I hope Tulsi Gabbard rounds up these arseholes and makes this very clear to them.
You have a pardon which means you cannot be charged. However, this pardon also means no 5th amendment protections ie impossible to incriminate yourself when pardoned already. So come and be interviewed.
However, this also means as you can't stay silent if questioned you will answer or it will be contempt. So Tulsi, make these arseholes sing and sink their peers to save their own skin. If they refuse, hit them with contempt and lock them up as the pardon will not be valid for new contempt charges. Be great to see them all narc on each other.
Remember playing monopoly and someone always won? Usually they were in control of the bank and they would slip themselves "Get out of jail free" cards, that's how they kept winning. The Democrat party personified.
What a horrid admin Biden had. Told "nothing to hide, nothing to fear" to justify the security state, then pardon all the corrupt buddies. A pre-emptive pardon for a general is interesting, and Fauci. Obviously something to hide or no pardons would have been issued.
A lot of us peasants listen and care, tho we are certainly a minority, but it's our leaders that never listen or care about these warnings, because all they care about is money and power, certainly not us peasants.. We are just labor to be used like machines and animals, consumers to be sucked dry of whatever money we have, and cannon fodder to be used for their endless wars. And those of us unlucky enough to end up incarcerated, are used for slave labor and profits for the prison industrial complex, forgot to include that industrial complex in Biden's warning..