America’s Addiction
Why the U.S. Can’t Survive Without War
America’s Addiction
Why the U.S. Can’t Survive Without War
The United States lives off of wars.
Our entire system is built on the assumption that there must always be an enemy, always another battlefield, always another trillion dollars funneled into the Pentagon’s black hole.
People talk about America being “addicted to oil,” but the real addiction is war itself.
Endless conflict is our foreign policy.
The war machine has to be fed.
The Pentagon’s budget is bigger than the next ten nations combined. Defense contractors like Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, and Boeing don’t rake in record profits when there’s peace. Peace is bad for business.
War, on the other hand, is the perfect racket: taxpayer money gets siphoned into bombs, tanks, drones, and endless “operations,” which blow things up overseas, requiring even more contracts to “rebuild” what we just destroyed.
Wash, rinse, repeat.
The American taxpayer is the ATM.