There’s also a secondary (or more like- primary) motive, shared from across the US to all the other petty imperial cores- this is some of the best war spending (ie. corporate welfare at the peoples’ expense) they’ve had in a fair while. If it were just about empire, self-preservation would kick in, but the one thing they all consistently are, moreso than imperialist, is short-sightedly greedy and corrupt. All these parties are helping themselves to some of the biggest public thefts in history while pretending there’s even a single patriotic or humanistic bone in their bodies combined.
For sure, war industry has become a clever racket for siphoning taxes out of the system and putting them back in the hands of the oligarchs. They scare people with whatever threat de jour they can come up with, and then use it to justify austerity because we need more military spending or the baddies will get us.
Pretty much, they’re imperial administrators as opposed to actual leaders. They just want to follow orders and do what the empire tells them to.
There’s also a secondary (or more like- primary) motive, shared from across the US to all the other petty imperial cores- this is some of the best war spending (ie. corporate welfare at the peoples’ expense) they’ve had in a fair while. If it were just about empire, self-preservation would kick in, but the one thing they all consistently are, moreso than imperialist, is short-sightedly greedy and corrupt. All these parties are helping themselves to some of the biggest public thefts in history while pretending there’s even a single patriotic or humanistic bone in their bodies combined.
For sure, war industry has become a clever racket for siphoning taxes out of the system and putting them back in the hands of the oligarchs. They scare people with whatever threat de jour they can come up with, and then use it to justify austerity because we need more military spending or the baddies will get us.