re: #675 prononymous

I imagine it is a confluence of many factors. I couldn’t really say how big the military industrial complex is as a factor, but they are A factor IMO.

When you have an industry worth as much, and employes as many, as the military industrial complex is/does, people will find reasons to buy that hardware, use it up, and buy more. The economy literally depends on it.

That’s what we have now. And have had for a long time. A war economy. The last vestige being Afghanistan which will inevitably fail. Iraq will settle into a quasi Islamist/secular state much like Turkey.