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Originally Posted by wehateporn
The tax dollars are there to be harvested by whoever gets there first, the US Oligarchs own the companies who the tax dollars get paid to during war, so hence it's in their interest to get a war going, they also get to benefit from new resources in the conquered territory.
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To an extent, yes.
But the military spends war no matter what. The military doesn't say "we are going to war with ISIS later this year, so we need $5 billion for new jets. The military plans out decades in advance. The Osprey I mentioned is a great example - After the Iranian Hostage Crisis, the military saw the need for helicopters that we both much faster and had a much longer range. It took them twenty years to get it off the ground. Right now we are designing and testing aircraft that will be around for the next three to four decades.
It's an interesting process.