one notices that the US arms industry has been very quiet. Two of our biggest industries (health care and war weapons) are extremely bloated and full of price gouging and grifting.
With health care, a move to single payer would eliminate most of that, but of course, the entrenched interests fight that tooth and nail.
The situation is the war industry is quite different. There was a time when the US weapons were superior. But today, thanks in large part to Trump's support of Russia and Trump's ongoing attacks on NATO allies, the letters and best weapons are coming from other countries. Our war industry is still stuck in the concept of kinetic wars with the Cold War mentality. We bomb water plants and schools (both war crimes). But notice that Iran sent drones after Amazon data centers.
The drones have the advantage of asymmetry. They can launch thousands of them, and our defenses cost 100X more. That isn't sustainable, even in the old kinetic model. But in the new model, Amazon and other data centers are seen as more valuable targets than traditional airfields and bases.
The upshot is that the US war industry is being exposed as bloated, too costly, and not effective for today's economic warfare. There are hundreds of billionaires and thousands of mega-millionaires that have feared of building war weapons on the US taxpayer's dime, and also selling these to friendly countries. But now, the only friendly countries are Saudi Arabia, Israel and Russia. Russia doesn't need our stuff. Israel and Saud need some of it, but they will increasingly be shopping elsewhere.
So these US war profiteers are shitting bricks right about now. More than ever, they need Repubicans in power to keep funding their useless multi billion-dollar systems.
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