Is World Conflict III About to Begin? Half II: Are the Navy-Industrial Advanced and Deep State Driving Us to Conflict?
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given the huge exiting of civilian U.S. factories and jobs during the last half-century to cheap-labor international locations overseas, the Navy Industrial Advanced might be the principal financial engine of the U.S. as a complete.
By Richard C. Cook dinner / Authentic to ScheerPost.
Why is the U.S. refusing to name a halt to the Ukraine insanity? Why can’t an period of “Peaceable Coexistence” in Europe and the world be declared or no less than sought? How about détente with Russia? With Russia and China? What’s mistaken with that?
We’ll begin peeling the onion by wanting on the U.S. military-industrial advanced. After all, President Eisenhower warned us towards the MIC over 60 years in the past in his “Farewell Tackle” of January 20, 1961. Amongst different remarks he mentioned:
“Within the councils of presidency, we should guard towards the acquisition of unwarranted affect, whether or not sought or unsought, by the military-industrial advanced. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced energy exists and can persist.”
Right this moment about 2.1 million individuals are employed by the protection business. In response to Acara Options, a serious MIC recruiting agency, their common annual wage is $106,700, 40 p.c greater than the nationwide common. The businesses they work for produced revenues in 2022 of $741 billion. How a lot of their manufacturing is high-priced junk, nobody is aware of. The efficiency of U.S.-produced armaments within the Ukraine battle doesn’t appear spectacular. No trendy U.S. weapons have ever been examined in an industrial-type battle towards an equal adversary.
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The MIC additionally contains active-duty uniformed personnel of 1.37 million and reserves of 849,000. There are 750 U.S. army bases in additional than 80 international locations outdoors of the U.S. Greater than 100,000 U.S. army personnel are stationed in Europe. Annual wage and advantages of the army are presently $146 billion per yr, escalating with COLAs compounded at two to a few p.c yearly, generally extra. Some former U.S. army personnel are assumed to be preventing in Ukraine as mercenaries or serving to direct the preventing from secure places like Kiev or Lvov.
Then there are the civilian workers. In response to the DoD, it employs greater than 700,000 civilians “in an array of essential positions worldwide,” with compensation totaling about $70 billion. In response to the Authorities Accountability Workplace, we may additionally add 560,000 contractor workers, whose compensation is usually greater than the profession workforce.
We will additionally add a whole bunch of hundreds of executives, managers, workers and contractors of the three-letter Deep State companies, such because the CIA, NSA, DEA, FBI, and now DHS, and so forth., who interface with the MIC day in and day trip and are a part of the identical cloth of state-sanctioned drive and enemy identification and interdiction.
Added to the above are members of Congress who vote on army budgets and make the legal guidelines that shield the MIC from accountability, lobbyists who strain these members to solid votes favorable to their MIC purchasers, personal sector monetary service workers who deal with the retirement accounts of the MIC multitude, foreigners who’re employed at abroad bases, and varied scoundrels and hangers-on. I would come with within the latter class the multitude of MIC cheerleaders from Hollywood who produce trashy spectacles like Prime Gun.
On prime of every little thing else, there are tens of millions of retirees drawing annuities in extra of what most working-class Individuals earn, many of those retirees double- or triple-dipping with profitable jobs in enterprise or authorities.
Every of the above people helps a number of relations, staff, and distributors throughout the civilian economic system who, with the ripple impact and velocity of cash, hold whole cities, cities, states, areas, and industries afloat. An instance is constructing the F-35 that has staff assembling it in 350 congressional districts. It’s in all probability no exaggeration to say that given the huge exiting of civilian U.S. factories and jobs during the last half-century to cheap-labor international locations overseas, the MIC might be the principal financial engine of the U.S. as a complete.
So are we going to inform what provides as much as tens of tens of millions of individuals, sorry, your providers are not wanted? Good luck with that. And isn’t it apparent that every one these folks, particularly the upper echelons, are going to do every little thing inside their energy to influence us that their jobs are so important that with out them we’ll shortly be overwhelmed and eaten alive by each “enemy” on the planet?
If you happen to doubt what I’m saying, ask any retired colonel or basic who has employed himself out as a speaking head to CNN or MSNBC. It’s additionally why DoD has formally declared Russia and China our two “adversaries,” as a result of, in any case, it’s important to level the finger at somebody and blame them to your personal dysfunctional society.
However as I witnessed personally in my NASA days, many MIC personnel by no means do a lick of trustworthy work, or are primarily occupied with paper shuffling or different busywork, particularly with work-at-home now the vogue, with many spending their days browsing the web, or worse, whereas drawing a degree of pay that places most civilian staff within the shade.
To not point out stay-at-home moms, lecturers and caregivers, first responders, regulation enforcement personnel, meals service workers, or the unemployed, underemployed, or homeless. But many of those folks, whereas working arduous for low pay, if any, have a way of achievement and self-worth that surpasses the swarms of MIC bureaucrats who can’t assist however really feel degraded of their superfluous and infrequently pointless vocational stagnation.
Is all this sufficient to create an crucial for World Conflict III? You inform me. It definitely must be a contributing issue. Plus it saps the nation’s pure power. We may even say that the U.S. battle machine is a cancerous tumor that has metastasized all through the whole thing of American society, polluting and corrupting each side of life, together with the physique politic, the setting, the leisure business, the mass media, schooling, scientific analysis, and so forth. ………………………………………………
September 28, 2023 –
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