The U.S. is retreating behind chokepoints and tariffs. It remains determined to invent the future but is struggling to ensure its control.
[T]he Cold War is no longer a battle of values but an undisguised battle of national interests.
[G]rowing mass production of new and more affordable methods of warfare won’t please the large arms manufacturers.
[W]hoever ends up in the White House will lose the world.
The question is whether the Biden administration is cynical enough to pursue its proxy war down to the last Ukrainian.
Do these members of Congress have especially sensitive fingers on the pulse of the market?
At first glance, the situation appears to be a win-win for U.S. defense contractors ... But ... something is rotten.
Ukraine has become the United States’ pawn and proxy in its dealings with Russia.
Are we going to learn any lessons from the Afghan failure? Is the catastrophic unraveling of this war going to cool the Western zeal in leading wars that are lost from the start, but generate enormous profits?
John McCain was a staunch supporter of that military-industrial complex.
America’s constantly progressing “war chariot system” differs in that it is driven by the monstrous power of capitalism.
According to him, there is a powerful "fifth column" in the country, working for its destruction.