War Preparations March On

From 1945 to 1991, the US military-industrial complex used the fear of the Soviet Union to gain Americans support for endless tax money being funneled to the War Machine.

In 1991, that abruptly ended, when the USSR dissolved, stopped central planning, and turned to the "free market" system that the US touted. (Their citizen's wealth was looted, they were thrown into destitute poverty and millions died...but they were 'free').

Americans, flush with the success and joy of destroying the Soviet Union, expected that the billions of dollars being spent on preparing for war, obviously being no longer necessary, could be used to take care of the needs of US citizens, instead. It was called the "Peace Dividend".

Ha, ha, joke is on you, Americans. The purpose of the military industrial complex is to enrich the war profiteers, not to "protect" you. If our ruling overlords were worried about US citizens being attacked by a foreign military, they would have some sort of civil defense system set up. There would be shelters to protect Americans. Instead, as Hawaiians learned in Jan. 2018, US "defense warnings" consist of them texting you that there are incoming missiles, and you should perhaps try to find some safe place to hide. You're on your own, though.

The US military attacked Iraq and Yugoslavia in the 90s, but those countries were pitifully unable to mount a strong defense, so a trillion dollar military was clearly not needed. What to do?

In 2001, the problem was solved, when non-state actors were said to have shut down the entire US military defense, hijacked 4 planes and destroyed, not just 3 skyscrapers in New York, but the actual headquarters of the entire US military, the Pentagon!, which was strangely as undefended as Hawaii in 2018.

Well, if spending trillions of dollars on the military for 60 years was worthless when the US was up against 19 young Arabs and their boxcutters, clearly there was only one solution! More money for the military, of course, to protect against "terrorists". Oh, and throw in a couple more trillion to set up a massive internal repressive apparatus for US citizens, while you're at it.

So, for the next 17 years, the US military was awash in money. They had so much money thrown at them that they lost track of 21 TRILLION dollars. Whoops!

Meanwhile, US citizens, "protected" by having their every communication spied upon, their movements recorded on camera, their police turned into an occupying military force, their bodies groped and their possessions x-rayed if they traveled, only sunk deeper into debt and/or poverty.

Last year, the Pentagon announced that they have changed their enemies again. They are going back to getting ready to attack Russia, but they have added China to the list of targets. Oh, and Iran and North Korea, because...why not?

You're never going to guess the problem! The Pentagon, which has had its budget more than doubled since 2001, and has lost more money than they officially have been given (and how does that happen?) is woefully underfunded, they tell us. It is SO sad, to have to limp along, scraping to get by, on $717 billion, especially when the money just keeps disappearing. Scary, scary Russia is spending almost as much as last year's budget increase, so clearly the US war machine is underfunded.


It's all been planned. It's right there in black and white. So any propaganda you hear against Russia or China or Iran or North Korea? They are just riffing on the general song, the Song of Perpetual War.