Wars Mean Enormous Profits

Tensions and Terrorism Also Mean Profits

Deep State Fuels Fear and Loathing

If All You Have is a Hammer...

Spreading Freedom or FreeDumb?

Corporate Interests

Global hegemony

This is partly because the mainstream news media and the politicians are often on the same foreign policy page and use identical and simplistic talking points. In addition, and thanks to our abysmal educational system and the entertainment media, Americans are apathetic or awfully misinformed about history and world affairs. The illusion is that we are always fighting either to spread freedom and democracy or to defeat an evil regime (somewhere most Americans know nothing about).The first characteristic of our foreign policy is the spending of trillions of dollars on military, wars and 800+ military bases around the world. This insatiable appetite of the military-security complex contributes to our unsustainable national debt. This year, America will spend $500 billion in interest payments alone.Congress allocates more money for "defense" than almost all the other countries of the world combined! Half of that money goes to private military contractors who benefit from what amounts to a massive welfare system. This also creates an unethical feedback loop where the contractors return some of the money to the politicians. Unlike a free market, many defense contractors enjoy monopolies regardless of their performance. Hence we spend $1.5 trillion on F-35 fighter jets that can't supply enough oxygen for the pilots; or how about those spanking new combat navy ships that repeatedly break down With the money we have spent just on the war in Afghanistan , we can pay off most of the student loans of young Americans! Each U.S. soldier deployed in Afghanistan costs the taxpayers $2 million! Why? Thank private military contractors who swindle the government by overcharging and cheating in numerous ways. For example, one contractor charged $8000 for spare parts that cost $450 ; another charged $900 for something that's worth $7 ! Sometimes soldiers and officials are also caught up in bribes and kickback schemes . Wow! Did we eradicate poverty and extremism, build schools and hospitals, and turn Afghanistan into a paradise? Well, 40% of the country is now under Taliban, opium production is at record level , ISIS is growing, and 72% of adults still can't read or write. But it's all good, because the real reason we are there might be to secure unfettered access to the rare earth minerals If wars are the most profitable enterprises, then threat of wars and terrorism are the second most profitable. The original Cold War meant a huge arms race; and the current hostility with Russia means tens of $billions spent on missile shields and deployment of troops and weapons along the Russian border. Terrorism is also a boon to the domestic security industry. Send a few million unvetted, low-skilled, young male migrants from war-torn countries into Europe and then just sit back and wait. People and the governments will soon beg for more police, more lethal arms and more surveillance.Americans put the military and the intelligence agencies on a pedestal. Failures such as the claims about Iraq's WMD have not really dented people's faith in the Deep State. When the CIA says, "Russia hacked DNC," or "Putin personally directed the hacking," ... people don't ask, "Where is the evidence?"A few months back, the State Department showed a satellite picture of a Syrian prison from 2015 and proclaimed , "" This wild imagination and absurd conspiracy theory should have been reprimanded.America seems to have lost its diplomatic skills. Like the alpha monkey which spends its entire day beating up other male monkeys,To summarize recent U.S. policies:A good example of peaceful growth is seen in China in recent decades. Without invading a single country, China's GDP grew 55 times since 1980. In Africa, China has built thousands of miles of roadways and railways, hospitals and buildings, and dozens of hydroelectric dams that supply electricity to tens of millions of people. That's a win-win approach through diplomacy, economics and trade.There has never been a moment in history when powerful elites got together and said, "We should make plans according to the popular opinions of the masses." Sometimes the elites are forced to give in to populism, but their real goal is to shape the opinions of the masses so that the people demand what the elites want. It's extremely silly therefore to think that the U.S. would ever desire true democracy and freedom in other countries. If, for example, 51% of Japanese or Saudi Arabians wanted U.S. military bases to be removed from their countries, would the U.S. comply? Of course, not. It wouldn't happen even if 90% demanded it.Globalists promptly reject democracy when it goes against them. Did 95% of Crimeans vote to join Russia? Invalid! Do Europeans oppose the EU constitution? Well, cancel the referendums! Did 61% of Greece vote against austerity? Ignore it! That's the reality. So when the globalists killed Gaddafi, tried to topple Assad, or staged a coup in Ukraine,(BTW, CIA's first successful coup was in 1949 and it was in ... Syria!).The paramount factor in U.S. foreign policy is the banking-corporate complex. First, every country must be a part of the global banking system. Once you control the money supply, you pretty much control everything else. Then comes the domination of that country's media, agriculture (use our GMO), food (buy our processed food), medicine (depend on our Big Pharma) and technology (so we can snoop on you). If the country has natural resources, they must sell it for pennies on the dollar; if it has poor people, they must work for the likes of Nike, Starbucks and Calvin Klein. None of these exploitative policies help other nations or even 99% of Americans.As General Smedley Butler explained this intersection of corporations and the military in 1933, "War is a racket."Conquering the world has been the dream of powerful people for more than 2000 years. From Alexander the Great to the Roman/Spanish/British Empires, the methods were obvious and crude. The modern banking/corporate Empire is subtle and complex. America and the EU are just the two headquarters of the new class of ruthless elites who dream of global hegemony. Every conflict and war that we are asked to support is based on a tactical or strategic goal of these masters of the world. Sometimes, the conflicts are cleverly started through proxy wars. For example, the U.S. used color revolutions in Georgia and Ukraine to install puppet governments and turned those countries against Russia; in Syria, the U.S. put together a coalition of Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey and used them to try to overthrow Assad. These are utterly immoral and illegal actions. So we must learn to inquire rather than react when the elites and the Mockingbird corporate media demonize a country or a leader.However, if enough Americans are smart and aware,As an example, when they scream, "Butcher Assad kills his own people!" you say, "Okay, stop being a drama queen. You want to overthrow the government, I get it. Let me do some research to figure out your real motives." Is doing such research more fun than, say, going on a vacation? No, but if we can fix the broken foreign policy, more Americans will have more money to go on vacations to more nations in a more peaceful world.