War is a racket especially for the MILITARY-SILICON VALLEY-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX We just kept on buying Lockheed's most expensive because the military-industrial complex has a captive audience and you just don't break out of that capture. 50. This budget right now, 56% of this budget is going to go to contractors. Over $1.5 trillion, over half is going to go to contractors. That's insane. It is. It's a good word for it.

War is a racket especially for the MILITARY-SILICON VALLEY-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX "We just kept on buying Lockheed's most expensive ( inferior weapons in the new drone dominated wars ) because the military-industrial complex has a captive audience and you just don't break out of that capture. 50. This budget right now, 56% of this budget is going to go to contractors. Over $1.5 trillion, over half is going to go to contractors. That's insane. It is. It's a good word for it."- Colonel Wilkerson , former aid to General Colin Powell, Chair of Joint Chiefs of Staff; Secretary of State < <


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Had we spent the money that we spent on the F-35 or some of the other things that are really big ticket items on things like drones, and I'm not talking about $9 million drones. I'm talking about $75,000 to $100,000 drones. <


Or think about this for a moment. Many moons ago, almost a decade ago, my Marine Corps swam a submersible submarine, nobody in it, all the way to La Habra in France, all the way from Dogren on the east coast of the 1 United States to La Havra and brought it back and it cost $100,000 with the 3D gear they had to make that United States to La Havra and brought it back and it cost $100,000 with the 3D gear they had to make that submarine in about 36 hours. Think about making hundreds of those for the price of an aircraft carrier. You could make hundreds of them. Arm them with metal mines. Arm them with torpedoes. Send them out there and sink every aircraft carrier in the ocean. I mean, if you had 40 of them out there, one of them would get through. So, yeah. We didn't do that, though. We didn't really honor the revolution in military affairs is what we called it. We talked about it. Talked about network warfare and all this stuff, but we never did it. We just kept what we called it. We talked about it. Talked about network warfare and all this stuff, but we never did it. <


We just kept on buying Lockheed's most expensive because the military-industrial complex has a captive audience and you just don't break out of that capture. 50. This budget right now, 56% of this budget is going to go to contractors. Over $1.5 trillion, over half is going to go to contractors. That's insane. It is. It's a good word for it. <


Wow. But when you say it's captive, which | 1 think is that's a good word for it. Um, how does this eventually end? Because the US is captive to to just so many different <



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13:44 Wow. But when you say it's captive, which I I think is that's a good word for it. Um, 13:52 how does this eventually end? Because the US is captive to to just so many different organizations, bodies, 13:57 countries, Israel, the military-industrial complex, big farmer, but also big tech. Now, how does the US 14:05 eventually break free where it starts to focus on what's best for the country rather than what's best for the all these different organizations? 14:12 It's not going to be under Secretary Pete Hex leadership or anyone he has around him. But what is probably going 14:19 to happen if we get this kind of hiatus and we don't get destroyed in the hiatus 14:24 is we're going to take some lessons from what's happening in Ukraine, what's...- ahead and did it anyway. 16:22 But it doesn't But it doesn't it doesn't look like we're adapting either. Like the US is adapting to the war in Ukraine. The war in Ukraine has been 16:28 going on for years before the Iran war and the US was just so unprepared for it. So I worry that the what makes sense 16:33 is not what actually moves forward. What moves forward is what makes the contractors the most money. The military-industrial complex the most. 16:39 You put your f you put your finger on. They don't make money off $75,000 drones. They make money off $400 million 16:46 F-35s. And it's a lot more competitive for the drones. They're a lot less sophisticated. It's more about volume. 16:51 So that money would go to new competitors which would be good and healthy too.So that money would go to new competitors which would be good and healthy too. 16:56 We'd diversify the base. Exactly. It's really now six or seven contractors 17:02 and what they do is one of them's the prime and the others are the subs and they all cheat. 17:09 Um back to Iran, we're seeing the sanctions as well with Operation Outcast. We've had multiple countries 17:15 um sanction Iranian entities, Iranian banks, the UAE, Turkey. We've had countries block their airspace for 17:22 Iranian airlines. I think UAE again, Turkey again, Azabjan, Georgia, Oman, 17:27 and a couple of others. There were reports that Iran was threatening those countries