The Military Industrial Complex Is Making Hundreds Of Billions Of Dollars, And They Need A Military Draft In The U.S. To Take Things To The Next Level
It would be difficult to overstate the importance of the Military Industrial Complex to our society. It employs millions of people, and it brings in hundreds of billions of dollars each year. The Military Industrial Complex has always been one of the central pillars of our economy, and these days business is booming thanks to the war in Ukraine and the possibility of a war with China. Needless to say, those that run the Military Industrial Complex want the gravy train to continue, and so politicians that are pro-war are showered with campaign contributions. In both major parties, politicians that are pro-war greatly outnumber those that are anti-war, and that is not likely to change any time soon.
Smedley D. Butler fought in four major conflicts, and in 1935 he astutely observed that “war is a racket”…
“WAR is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.”
Of course the statements that he made back then are even more true today.
If the Military Industrial Complex suddenly disappeared, it would leave a giant, gaping hole in our economy that would be extremely difficult to fill. In an excellent piece that he posted earlier this week, Richard C. Cook shared some numbers about the Military Industrial Complex that are absolutely astounding…
Today about 2.1 million people are employed by the defense industry. According to Acara Solutions, a major MIC recruiting firm, their average annual salary is $106,700, 40 percent higher than the national average. The companies they work for produced revenues in 2022 of $741 billion. How much of their production is high-priced junk, no one knows. The performance of U.S.-produced armaments in the Ukraine conflict does not seem impressive. No modern U.S. weapons have ever been tested in an industrial-type war against an equal adversary.
The MIC also includes active-duty uniformed personnel of 1.37 million and reserves of 849,000. There are 750 U.S. military bases in more than 80 countries outside of the U.S. More than 100,000 U.S. military personnel are stationed in Europe. Annual salary and benefits of the military are currently $146 billion per year, escalating with COLAs compounded at two to three percent annually, sometimes more. Some former U.S. military personnel are assumed to be fighting in Ukraine as mercenaries or helping direct the fighting from safe locations like Kiev or Lvov.
Then there are the civilian employees. According to the DoD, it employs more than 700,000 civilians “in an array of critical positions worldwide,” with compensation totaling about $70 billion. According to the Government Accountability Office, we may also add 560,000 contractor employees, whose compensation is typically higher than the career workforce.
We can also add hundreds of thousands of executives, managers, employees and contractors of the three-letter Deep State agencies, such as the CIA, NSA, DEA, FBI, and now DHS, etc., who interface with the MIC day in and day out and are part of the same fabric of state-sanctioned force and enemy identification and interdiction.
In the entire history of the world, we have never seen anything quite like this.
And the Military Industrial Complex absolutely loves Joe Biden, because he has promised to keep the war in Ukraine going “for as long as it takes”…
It is likely that billions of people around the world view the conflict in Ukraine as a proxy war being waged by the U.S. against Russia. US President Joe Biden has pledged to aid Ukraine’s pursuit of victory “for as long as it takes,” without defining what the end state might be. Russian President Vladimir Putin has interpreted U.S. intentions to mean a fight “to the last Ukrainian.”
Unfortunately, there is a problem.
The Ukrainians are running out of warm bodies.
They have literally been grabbing men off the streets and throwing them into vans, but we didn’t care because it wasn’t our sons that were being forced to go to war.
Many Americans cheered when the Ukrainians began their ill-fated “counter-offensive”, but it turned out to be a disaster.
A senior U.S. intel official recently admitted to journalist Seymour Hersh that Ukraine has suffered approximately 75,000 casualties during this counter-offensive…
“There is no discussion in his headquarters or in the Biden White House of a ceasefire and no interest in talks that could lead to an end to the slaughter,” Hersh said.
Speaking of the Ukrainian claims of slow progress in an offensive that has lost an estimated 75,000 casualties, the official told Hersh: “It’s all lies.”
On many battlefields in Ukraine, there are unburied dead bodies just laying around all over the place.
The Russians have been mowing down wave after wave of Ukrainian men, and Hersh was told that there “is no Ukrainian offensive anymore”…
As the anniversary of the purported Biden Regime sabotage of the Nord Stream pipeline approaches Sept. 26, veteran investigative reporter Seymour Hersh blamed a ”secret disinformation operation“ by CIA and MI-6 for misleading the public about the disastrous state of the US-led war effort.
“The war is over. Russia has won. There is no Ukrainian offensive anymore, but the White House and the American media have to keep the lie going,“ a senior US intel official told Hersh. “The truth is if the Ukrainian army is ordered to continue the offensive, the army would mutiny. The soldiers aren’t willing to die any more, but this doesn’t fit the B.S. that is being authored by the Biden White House.”
Where do we go from here?
The Military Industrial Complex certainly does not want this conflict to end, and Joe Biden has no intention of backing down.
So more warm bodies will be needed.
That is one of the reasons why there has been so much chatter about bringing back the draft here in the United States.
Recruitment has been way down in recent years, but our leaders desperately want to win this war with Russia and they also want to be ready to fight a war with China over Taiwan.
And so the stage is being set to draft young American boys and young American girls into military service…
The most recent edition of the US Army War College’s academic journal includes a highly disturbing essay on what lessons the US military should take away from the continuing war in Ukraine. By far the most concerning and most relevant section for the average American citizen is a subsection entitled “Casualties, Replacements, and Reconstitutions” which, to cut right to the chase, directly states, “Large-scale combat operations troop requirements may well require a reconceptualization of the 1970s and 1980s volunteer force and a move toward partial conscription.”
The context for this supposed need to reinstate conscription is the estimate that were the US to enter into a large-scale conflict, every day it would likely suffer thirty-six hundred casualties and require eight hundred replacements, again per day. The report notes that over the course of twenty years in Iraq and Afghanistan, the US suffered fifty thousand casualties, a number which would likely be reached in merely two weeks of large-scale intensive combat.
The military is already facing an enormous recruiting shortfall. Last year the army alone fell short of its goal by fifteen thousand soldiers and is on track to be short an additional twenty thousand this year. On top of that, the report notes that the Individual Ready Reserve, which is composed of former service personnel who do not actively train and drill but may be called back into active service in the event they are needed, has dropped from seven hundred thousand in 1973 to seventy-six thousand now.
Do you want your children to be fed into a meat grinder on the other side of the globe?
If not, it is time to stand up and say something.
Even now, large numbers of Americans are getting hurt fighting in Ukraine, and many of them are being treated at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany…
The US Army is giving medical care to wounded American fighters who volunteered for Ukraine’s foreign legion and other militias at a hospital in Germany.
This is happening with increasing frequency at the US Army’s Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany, a New York Times investigation found, which marks “a notable new step in the United States’ deepening involvement in the conflict,” as the report underscored.
It appears to be just a matter of time before we find ourselves in a full-blown shooting war with Russia, because both sides just continue to escalate matters.
This week, it was being reported that Russia will increase defense spending by nearly 70 percent in 2024…
Russia said Thursday that it plans to raise defence spending by almost 70 percent next year, funnelling massive resources into its Ukraine offensive to fight what it calls a “hybrid war” unleashed by the West.
With Moscow’s “special military operation” now approaching another winter, both sides have been digging deep and procuring weapons from allies in preparation for a protracted conflict.
Many Americans consider the Russians to be just like the Nazis, but it turns out that the Russians also consider us to be just like the Nazis…
Dmitry Medvedev, Russia’s former president, warned that this would lead to a third world war, which would have greater consequences than World War II.
The 58-year-old politician also accused NATO of being like Nazi Germany and the Axis powers.
‘It seems that Russia is being left with fewer and fewer options but to come into direct conflict on the ground with NATO,’ he said.
The 74-year-old alliance ‘has become an openly fascist bloc like Hitler’s Axis, only bigger’, he claimed.
If the Nazis were around today, what would we do to them?
Needless to say, our leaders would be determined to utterly destroy them.
Russian leaders would feel the same way.
And so this makes pace almost impossible.
Here in the western world, our leaders will never be satisfied until Putin is gone and the nation of Russia is broken up into lots of little pieces.
On the other side, there is constant talk on Russian television about how the conflict in Ukraine will inevitably spark a global nuclear war. So it should deeply alarm all of us that the Russians recently conducted large scale nuclear combat drills…
World War 3 fears have erupted once more after Vladimir Putin ordered thousands of troops from Russia’s nuclear missile force to run “combat readiness” exercises.
The combat drills took place in the Sverdlovsk region on Thursday and saw 3,000 Tagil Rocket Division soldiers being trained on the “highest degrees of combat readiness”, according to RadarOnline.com.
Video footage of the nuclear missile division’s combat drills was shown on the Russian defense ministry TV channel, Zvezda.
The clip shows thousands of soldiers training and Yars thermonuclear intercontinental ballistic missiles, feared throughout the world because of their massive 6,835-mile range.
We need to pull back from the brink before it is too late.
But our leaders won’t do that.
They don’t want to upset the Military Industrial Complex.
Unfortunately, we could also soon find ourselves in a war with China.
In fact, not too long ago a four-star general actually predicted that we will be at war with China in 2025…
The four-star general in charge of the US Air Force’s Air Mobility Command has defended a memo he sent to his officers earlier this year where he predicted the US would be at war with China in 2025.
“My assessment is that war is not inevitable, but the readiness I’m driving with that timeline is absolutely essential to deterrence and absolutely essential to the decisive victory,” Gen. Mike Minihan said last week when asked about his prediction, according to Defense One.
The moment that China invades Taiwan, there will be war between our two nations.
So in the not too distant future, we could literally be fighting Russia and China at the same time.
And as I have been warning my readers for years, that is a really, really bad idea.
But it doesn’t matter what you or I think.
The Military Industrial Complex wants to make even more money, and our politicians want to keep the campaign contributions rolling in.
So we will continue to speed toward a date with the unthinkable as the fate of our society hangs in the balance.
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It doesn't really produce much wealth. The military and its contractors are paid with tax dollars. Taxes are a drain on the economy. As Jesus Christ said to some friends of mine, taxation is theft.
Now you may quibble that some death machines and ammo are sold to foreign buyers. But these are also theft funded gooferments. So, no, the people of the world are better off without the military industrial financial pharmaceutical complex and its burdens. Americans are better off defending our homes and families ourselves, helping one another. We are better off without the spy agencies lying and spying.
We are better off without the vaxxajab pushers lying and pushing poison. We are better off without the welfare and warfare state dominating the economy and slaughtering the men, women, and children they don't enslave.
Until you stop pledging allegiance to a hunk of cloth and worshipping the government "for which it stands" you won't be obedient to God. God told you not to worship any artefact of human hands. But you wouldn't listen.
So now you have the consequences of your choices. The only path through this mess is to repent your sins and turn to God. Stop supporting the demon worshippers who are seeking to enslave you.
God bless you and your family. Amen.
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A greater war is coming and we need to prepare for this no matter who wins the next election, even if we get there.
We need to look at this from the big picture. This is not Biden's war. Historically Dem and Rep presidents have led us into wars and kept us there. They both are controlled by the same MIC and that is just a branch of the trunk of the western global banking network the BIS, WB IMF, plus all the major western banks working together monthly getting their marching orders from the BIS and yes the USA FED. Supplemented by the Pentagon, the CIA and the NSA. Almost every major nation has thier version of the CFR here in America and that controls the key politicians of both parties. Notice over the last 100 years we have had an equal number of Dem and Rep presidents in office just about the same number of years. The same goes for party control of each congressional election for 100 years. And what has changed? Nothing but this slow slide to globalism.
Notice the Republican debates did not touch on the the coming default and how to get out of the war mode or the coming WW III, or how to solve the decay of our culture. Did anyone mention the Gospel?
WW I came to bring in the League of Nations, it failed. WW II came to bring in the United Nations and it's failing. They are bringing in another world war WW III to bring in the final battle for global control and it does appear this will have an "Alien" disclosure event to bring the world together and bring in peace. But it will be a false peace.
We have almost 70 wars, revolutions, civil wars, tribal wars, insurrections and factional wars going on together for decades. What would happen if someone came along and stopped it. Subdues all the nations so no one can make war against him and his power? World Peace! Who can vote against world peace?
We have to stop looking at this through our American eyes. This is not more like 1984 but more like the road to the Antichrist. We look at this and how it's effecting us. We need to look at the bigger picture.
My daughter has been in Ukraine for a year leading Samaritan's Purse medical relief operation for that country. She has been all over the country even withing 10 miles of the front lines in the north east and south. That nation has been devastated by that war. Over 50% of the severely injured and those suffering from PTSD are committing suicide. SP is committed to bringing help and the Gospel to these suffering war vets. And here we sit bitching about how bad we have it here. She is now spearheading setting up mobile hospitals throughout the regions near the front lines partnering with local churches and missionaries, not only to provide desperately needed medical, dental and psych help but the Gospel as well.
Remember Jesus is doing all of this. He said that he would bring wars and rumors of wars, famines and diseases. They are regrettable, but these things must take place, and as Jesus said I will give them eyes that won't see or ears that won't hear because they have rejected me.
What we are seeing is God's righteous wrath beginning to be poured out on the world and God's plan to purify His church in the last days by His sifting of the Church just as Peter was sifted by Satan, but just as Jesus was for Peter, Jesus is for us, so it does not matter who is against us. It does not matter what happens. America survives or dies, there is a last days revival or not. We already have all we need, the cross (the Gospel/the truth) and the Holy Spirit. We need to rest in that. Jesus said if they kill you what else can they do to you? Dying as a martyr is not a big deal because my name is already in the book of life and and I'm already seated in the heavenlys.