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Theres an incentive for certain aspects of empire to endorse wars but in the last instance the only reason the military industrial complex exists is in order to support the war efforts of empire not the other way around. The US got a lot out of destroying iraq and libya and syria and Afghanistan in its efforts to gain control over SWANA and control the choke point between asia africa and europe as well as the constant capital in the soil.
The tendency for capitalism is to expand but just like the collapse of the roman empire, infinite expansion is not sustainable on a planet w a finite limit of resources.
Theres probably something else to be said as well about the second characteristic of imperialism which is that war destroys capital which creates room for more growth.
Read through it and think the ideas are fine but pointing to it as a ponzi scheme and not an inherent contradiction of capitalism makes it seem like theres some "long term thinking capitalism" solution that doesnt exist
yea this analysis reads like the typical liberal marvel brained analysis except they correctly recognize that "america bad" instead of "eastern hordes/terrorists bad"
Yeah reading the article i noticed a distinct lack of materialist thinking, and last three paragraphs really nailed it in.
This scheme only works when US isn't directly involved in the wars. So, I don't think starting WW3 is what they'd want. The idea is to have long running limited scale conflicts or a cold war where constant military spending can be justified.
For sure, mistakes happen and you get unintended consequences.
Why is gotta be endless sequels? Can't Hollywood make any new IP?
If I'm not mistaken, this is the reason Max Azzarello decided to self-immolate, to call attention to the massive Ponzi Scheme.