Waste Money, Lose Wars, Anger Foreigners - The Apparent Purpose of the US Military

The title of this post is a reference to the apparent purpose of the US military since 1945. In the days of yore, congress would declare war, the whole nation would mobilize, and the war would be won. Since 1945, the general pattern has been this:

1. Start a war

2. Prolong it for as long as possible

3. Enrich the military industrial complex during Step 2

4. Lose

5. Abandon allies, as seen in the following video from Kabul in 2021

6. Repeat

Almost the same thing happened in Saigon in 1975.

Did I miss something? Whatever. Who cares? What else is on TV?

“War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.” ― Smedley Butler, War is a Racket