It is no accident that the United States is on the cusp of the Second Cold War...
Authored by Franklin Spinney: The Military-Industrial-Congressional-Complex’s (MICC) grand-strategic chickens are coming home to roost big time.
While
war is bad, the Russo-Ukrainian War has the champagne corks quietly
popping in the Pentagon, on K Street, in the defense industry, and
throughout the halls of Congress. Taxpayers are going to be paying for their party for a long time.
It is no accident that the United States is on the cusp of the Second Cold War.
Future
historians may well view the last 30 years as a case study in the
institutional survival of the American Military – Industrial –
Congressional Complex (MICC), together with its supporting blob now
saturating the media, think tanks, academia, and the intelligence
community. Perhaps, these future historians will come also to view the
Global War on Terror (GWOT) as the bridging operation that greased the
transition to Cold War II by keeping defense budgets at Cold War levels
after Cold War I ended. Also, 9-11 may have re-acclimated the American
people to the climate of fear now needed to sustain Cold War II for the
remainder of the 21st Century.