Chris Hedges (They're Destroying The Country!)
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Why Is There a Necessity for Ongoing Conflicts?
After World War II, you had a perpetuation of the military, what Eisenhower called the military industrial complex. And then, of course, it fed the proxy wars that were very much part of the Cold War. There was a period of 10 or 15 years of anti-militarism because of the Vietnam War. That's when the United States began to talk about the unipolar world and said we can do anything we want. Those two things led to the conflict with Ukraine and just to close I think that there's a deep understanding now certainly within the US military that they cannot win a war of attrition against Russia.
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