Date: Saturday, 13 July 2024
https://ericzuesse.substack.com/p/us-defense-firms-control-the-us-government
https://theduran.com/u-s-defense-firms-control-the-u-s-government/
U.S. ‘Defense’ Firms Control the U.S. Government.
Eric Zuesse (blogs at https://theduran.com/author/eric-zuesse/)
The United States is safer from a foreign invasion than any other country, not because it spends half of all of the world’s military expenditures, but because it is separated by over 3,000 miles of ocean away from Europe and from Asia, and because its only two bordering countries are entirely friendly nations, Mexico and Canada — so, there’s no way, short of an invasion from thousands of miles away, that America can be militarily attacked.
The thing that nations are especially concerned about in national-defense matters is avoiding a blitz attack, which is an attack from a location so near to the nation’s central command — near to its Government — so as to be able to behead the Government too fast for the Government to be able to identify that attack and release its retaliatory forces against its enemy.
This is what the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis was all about: JFK needed to prevent placement of Soviet missiles in Cuba only 1,131 miles away from DC, which would have enabled the Soviet Union to blitz-attack America within less than 30 minutes. That’s why JFK threatened to Khrushchev that if they tried that, then America would invade and take over Cuba.
Nowadays the situation is in the reverse direction: Russia’s central command (The Kremlin in Moscow) is only 317 miles away from Ukraine, and on 17 December 2021 Russia formally demanded both America and its NATO to promise that Ukraine won’t be added to NATO and will never host U.S. military; and — entirely unlike what Khrushchev did in 1962 — the U.S. and its NATO responded on 7 January 2022 with a resounding and contemptuous no. Russia invaded Ukraine on 24 February 2022.
What is this actually all about? Empirical studies have shown unequivocally that the U.S. Government is controlled by and represents not its public but only its thousand billionaires plus the politically most active of its centi-millionaires. Each of these individuals is catastrophically wealthy and so can buy enough politicians so that even just the billionaires alone actually do donate more than half of all of the money that funds U.S. political campaigns — the ads, the ‘news’-stories in their ‘news’-media, their think tanks and universities, etc. — in order to drown-out whatever few politicians who simply refuse to be controlled by them.
Look at this graph, which shows that by far the best-performing corporate stocks in the U.S. have been in the defense-aerospace sector ever since the Soviet Union ended in 1991. No longer do U.S. Presidents and members of the U.S. Congress have a need to show their voters any military success and buy with all that taxpayer money weapons and military training that win wars; and, so, ever since 1991 (and even before that), America has been losing wars and yet the voting public don’t even care about that but believe all the pro-military ‘news’-reporting and commentary, all of the propaganda, that they receive.
From an armaments manufacturer’s standpoint, this is nirvana: they control their market because they control their politicians and their ‘news’-media etc.; so, no matter how overpriced and underperforming their products and services are, increased ‘defense’ budgets are assured, and the voters won’t even know about this con, because the ‘news’-media hide it and bury it, and cover it over with flag-waving. And we can even have a top financial-political whore to Ameica’s ‘defense’ contractors leading now in at least one poll.
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Investigative historian Eric Zuesse’s latest book, AMERICA’S EMPIRE OF EVIL: Hitler’s Posthumous Victory, and Why the Social Sciences Need to Change, is about how America took over the world after World War II in order to enslave it to U.S.-and-allied billionaires. Their cartels extract the world’s wealth by control of not only their ‘news’ media but the social ‘sciences’ — duping the public.
