In this issue, I want to talk to you about the art ** industrial complex.
In other words, the United States ** fire merchant has made a lot of money. Just two days ago, the United States announced that the amount of US arms sales to foreign countries last year reached $238 billion. Compared to the previous year, this is a full 16% increase.
Moreover, China's military spending last year was only about $230 billion. The amount of US arms sales to foreign countries is even more than that. One can imagine how much money the US arms dealers have made.
It is worth noting that the amount of direct arms sales by arms dealers increased by only $3.9 billion compared with the previous year; However, the arms sales reached through the United States** increased by $29 billion over the previous year. It is not difficult to find that the United States is the "urgent vanguard" of arms sales.
Why is this happening? This brings us to the military-industrial complex. It is an alliance between the U.S. Department of Defense and arms dealers, and its influence spreads across both the Democratic and Republican parties. Specifically, it is the US fire dealers who hire retired US soldiers to serve as company executives and form interest ties with them. Then, push them into the Department of Defense and let them lobby the United States ** to come up with more military spending to buy arms.
It can be said that the United States has now been completely "kidnapped" by the military-industrial complex. And what are the consequences of continuing like this? It is that sooner or later, the United States will "overturn" because of this.
Why? Quite simply, the essence of the military-industrial complex is to chase the profits of arms ** without a bottom line. Take the situation of the United States in the Russian-Ukrainian and Palestinian-Israeli conflicts as an example, the reason why the United States wants to provoke the Russian-Ukrainian conflict is not only to sell arms, but also to consider the national strategic level, the United States also considers to undermine the increasingly harmonious relations between Russia and European countries. At the same time, harvest a wave of European capital and give yourself blood.
And the war between Russia and Ukraine has been fought so far, and the United States has basically achieved these two goals. It stands to reason that the United States should end this conflict so that it can get out of the vortex of war as soon as possible.
But why has the Russia-Ukraine conflict not stopped? To put it bluntly, to a large extent, it is because the US military-industrial complex is reluctant to have such a good arms consumption market. They want Russia and Ukraine to continue to fight, and whether Ukraine wins the war or not, they can profit from it.
The same is true of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The US strategy in the Middle East in recent years has been a policy of contraction. According to this logic, after the Palestinian-Israeli war breaks out, the United States should try its best to get the two sides to cease fire, instead of supporting Israel without principle, as it is now.
Why does the United States not follow common sense? It is undeniable that Israel's strategic position is very important, and the United States will not abandon it for the sake of overall global strategic considerations. But this is only one of the reasons at best, and another important reason is that it is still influenced by the art complex.
In other words, the U.S.-industrial complex, because of its own selfish interests, disregards the national interests of the United States. For a long time, the United States has stirred up trouble all over the world, allowing countries to fight with each other, while hiding behind it to make a lot of war profits. Behind the mouths of American politicians and arms dealers, there are wars filled with gunpowder, thousands of people who have left their homes, and deaths that are constantly staged.
And all of these, when the United States is now gradually going downhill, have all come back one by one. As soon as "de-dollarization" was mentioned, it quickly swept the world, knocking down the monetary hegemony of the United States. The Saudi-Iranian rapprochement, ASEAN neutrality, Africa as a bystander, and South America's rightward turn have all come together to resist the pressure of US political hegemony. Militarily, the countries of the Middle East have even used the "first-class war" that the United States is accustomed to back to the United States itself.
Today, the United States has long been embattled, and if it is not careful, it may fall from the "throne" and never recover.
As the so-called: the military-industrial complex is covered by shadows, inciting global wars. Selfish desires will eventually lead to disaster, and the alarm bell will ring for hegemony.