The Military Industrial Economy Is Destroying Our World

For many years I've been amazed by the fact that so few people seem to acknowledge the impact of the Industrial Military Complex upon our entire world.

We often think of one particular Nation, say the USA, or Russia, or China, but when you think about all the nations which have such a huge commitment to military action and investment in their own programmes the international economic network is incomprehensibly vast.

They not only produce all the ships, submarines and aircraft carriers, they produce all the military aircraft and all the weapons which these carriers are loaded with, all the cannons, all the rockets and all the bombs. They produce all the munitions which are projected from land sea or air, from small calibre bullets to the largest cannon ordinance, and getting much larger again to nuclear bombs. 

They produce more of the same every year. All these nations buy weapons and munitions from manufacturers every year. They never stop purchasing new supplies.But how is this possible? 

Well it's only possible that they can produce more and more every year because all the wars which get started from time to time, for whatever national reasons, are allowed to continue unabated for many years after they start.

The other day my friend Kit Guyatt send me a video by 

Abby Martin and Double Down News

on the 

Military Industrial Complex 

and its impact the

overwhelming pollution of our world !

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Now every person can access Abby's wonderful piece , so I will not bother to quote from it.

I do not want to reduce your viewing by selecting clips.

 

I merely wish to add my own personal thoughts about how relevant it is.

Let us say that a small nation like Australia buys some weapons from another nationw hich manufactures that weaponry. Let's take a simple example:  Lockheed Martin F-35

Here in australia we have 72 of these aircraft which completes an order going back many years.

The first one was ddelivered in 2018, and 8 years later we have 72!

Let's not worry abouyt how we are going to use them, or when we might use them, or if they will ever be engaged in a war rather than just a "skirmish".

They cost Australia a huge amount of money. $17 BILLION AUD .

They cost between $34,000 and $46,000 to fly, for every hour they are acrually flying whether in training or reconnaisance, or warfare.

 Now let's just think about this fact :

As of late 2026, Lockheed Martin has produced and delivered over 1,344 F-35 Lightning II aircraft globally. [1]

As you can see that is a huge production line and has been sold to the US miliatry and other nations for approx $306 BILLION !

They might or might not ever be used in combat and one day they will all end up on the scrapheap somewhere in some deserted places. 

But the main event is that these are only a tiny fraction of similar planes for warfare built by other nations. China and Russia produce their own varioans, Sweden produces an alternative called

Saab 37 Viggen ("The Thunderbolt"): 

Entering service in 1973, the Viggen combined massive Mach 2.1 speed with canard wings and a unique thrust reverser. This allowed the heavy fighter to halt on short, icy Swedish highway

Maximum Projected Cost: Certain comprehensive program breakdowns and late-stage multi-role variant projections place the value of the platform as high as $45 million per unit when fully accounting for Sweden's massive domestic R&D infrastructure split across the 329 total units produced. [1, 2]

 

There are numerous aircraft of different sizes and which serve different purposes which are built around the world. The USA is not the only one, but it is perhaps the largest manufacturing nation of military aircraft.

This chart gives some idea of the overwhelming size of US fleet

 https://www.globalfirepower.com/aircraft-total.php

OF the top five nations

USA = 53% 

China + Russia + India + South Korea  = 47%

France is 10TH

UK      is 15TH

Israel, with less than 10 million people comes in at 17th!

Australia comes in at 31st in the entire world!

Now we all know the USA really is not just a country, it is an economic giant. Its entire economy has military producing companies spread all across it's landmass. These are incredibly wealthy companies and they often have many military contracts as well as civilian contracts.

They share many things in common such as :

They are producing components on a huge scale, very high tech, very expensive and extremely profitable.

The rest of the world is simply not UP THERE, the USA is the major manufacturer of all sorts of weapons and munitions.

All these countries produce more than they need, 

so they MUST have continuing wars to make use 

of some of what they produce before they trash 

what has become obselete, 

or  what has been left on some distant battlefield 

where it is too expensive to remove back home, 

so they just let it rot, or blow it up !