Glenn Greenwald

And the fact that we constantly fight wars against countries that have not attacked us and aren't about to attack us is one of those things.

And this is yet another war, another war like that, the kind that Trump ran for 10 years promising to avoid denouncing and saying that it was destroying our country.

And he was right about that.

That resonated with me.

and a lot of other people, and yet here we are, arguably in the middle of the worst and most dangerous one yet.

I mean, I guess the question is, who is us?

You know, we had this 20 year occupation of Afghanistan that Donald Trump negotiated into with with the Taliban and then Joe Biden rather incompetently, but nonetheless executed.

We finally withdrew from from Afghanistan.

This is in mid 2021.

And the Taliban would just march right into power, back into power, as though none of it had ever happened.

All that money, all those lives wasted for no reason.

And then six months later, we found a new war, which is when Russia invaded Ukraine.

And suddenly we had all this new reason to crank up the war machine.

And so you're definitely right.

It needs to be fed.

These people wield immense power in both parties in Washington.

But when we say we would suffer, I think what we mean is the arms industry would suffer.

The defense contractors would suffer.

All the kind of leeches that cling to them would suffer.

But you could use that money instead for all sorts of other stimulus inside the United States for like renewing infrastructure.