The war profiteers win - for awhile. Everybody else loses.

[T]he tensions in Eastern Europe, the tensions in the South China Sea, all of those things are putting pressure on some of the defense spending over there. So I fully expect we’re going to see some benefit from it."

Sociologist C. Wright Mills, in The Power Elite, calls attention to the interwoven interests of the leaders of the military, corporate, and political elements of society and suggests that the ordinary citizen is a relatively powerless subject of manipulation by those entities.

Project Nimbus has ignited a “secretive war” involving top Israeli army generals – all vying for a share in the profit, and whetted the appetite of many other international tech companies.

If you are scared to talk about Israel bragging that they can use nuclear warheads to wipe out major cities in Europe and you constantly want to discuss climate change, then you are a moron or useful idiot.

Several former Trump administration officials and regime change proponents attempted to walk a tightrope between making a progressive case for pressure against Iran and portraying progressives as appeasers of anti-American regimes.

"By requesting additional forces to contain a supposedly urgent Iranian threat, McKenzie triggered the dispatch of an aircraft carrier strike group and a bomber task force to the Middle East."

“People say, you're erasing our history. When the Saddam Hussein statue fell in Baghdad, I don't recall Republicans at the time going 'Big mistake! You don't want to erase your history! That's your history!’”

Despite President Trump’s repeated assertions that the Covid-19 epidemic was ‘unforeseen’ and ‘came out of nowhere,’ the Pentagon was well aware of not just the threat of a novel influenza

VT Writer Kevin Barrett on PressTV says "Sanders committing heresy in American political religion by questioning huge giveaways to military-industrial complex and to the very richest Americans".