This is the Duopoly’s work.
And this has been the Duopoly’s work since well before Ike named the “military-industrial complex” on his way out of the White House in January 1961.
The No. 1 priority of these denizens of Empire is to keep that gravy train rolling. That’s why they invent far-flung and misbegotten missions; they’re designed to extend and reinforce Imperial Washington’s global hegemony.
Consider what’s beyond the Empire’s purely military dimension. There lies a vast stratum of economic and financial warfare. The U.S. currently has sanctions – on trade, financials and proscribed nationals – targeted against more than 30 countries.
That includes highly visible alleged malefactors like Russia, Iran, China, and North Korea. But there’s also Lebanon, Liberia, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and Syria, to name a few small fry.
And we’ve unleashed a whole new layer of “soft” war… or “cyber” war… and the Chinese are trying to develop ways of making us pay for it many times over…