Trump’s Military Complex Conflict

Trump’s war of words against America’s military leadership, with his accusation that they are shills for the military industrial complex, start wars so that bombs and planes manufactured by the complex can be sold – on the heels of his poor choice of words about military personnel serving their country, some with their lives – is unbelievable political theatre for America’s Commander-in-Chief to position himself as he runs for re-election.

Back in January 2017, after Trump became president, I posted a blog Ike Was Right about his 1961 farewell address, warning America about the Military Industrial Complex and my dismay about Trump’s decision to undo sequestration, the military cutbacks that went into effect on March 1, 2013, a subject I wrote about in Custom Maid Revolution for New World Disorder, pages 1043, 1049 and 1064 , as well as his decision to fill key administration positions with generals.

I also raised the question of the beneficiaries of undoing sequestration? Defense contractors and oil companies, allowing them to map out the next war – and the military budget to fight it. I wrote:

“Fear is the ultimate weapon of a military-industrialized Congress designed to justify its…military defense budgets, to defend against the very real and imaginary enemies that the politicians themselves created. Politically crafted – very craftily – to build well-oiled military machines in cities, counties, states, borders, nationally and globally to defend and protect a frightened public by draining education budgets, thus denying us the knowledgeable human capital necessary to live harmoniously free of fear.”

Trump is the top salesman of America’s arms manufacturers, compromising America’s values, the most blatant example being his forgiving Saudi Arabia for the brutal murder of American resident, the dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi, because of the kingdom’s commitment to buy billions of dollars of U.S. weapons annually.

“I don’t like the concept of stopping an investment of $110 billion into the United States,” the president said after Khashoggi’s murder.

WOW! What a change of direction for the president’s political re-election reality show, with the support cast of Defense Secretary Mark T. Esper, from Raytheon, and Army secretary Ryan D. McCarthy, from Lockheed Martin, two of the cornerstones of the Military Industrial Complex.

What a show!

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