> On January 17, 1961, in this farewell address, President Dwight Eisenhower warned against the establishment of a "military-industrial complex.

As clear of a problem then as now.

https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/president-dwigh...

It stopped being a thing at the end of cold war.

Based on what?

Cold War is back on, by the way…

A meeting from 1993 while CNBC says the US is depleting its entire stock of missiles in overseas war,

and that’s an additional war, not just the Russian conflict we’ve proxied ourselves into, and sent tons of gear into, avionic assistance into.

Seriously, I know you’re reading this because of the rapid downvote: you really don’t think the US is in the middle of war?