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Biden makes case that aid for Israel and Ukraine will "pay dividends for American security" (www.cbsnews.com)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

He was kind of saying "there's this thing I built that could make all of you really rich, but it's kind of horrible, you should totally dismantle it instead of using it to get rich".

When Eisenhower gave that speech in 1961, there were already people screaming about how the military industrial complex was horrific, how it would lead to endless wars, and how it would cause global suffering.