“But then all those politicians, their family members, big donors, etc., wouldn’t have been able to make money off the military industrial complex, nor be able to launder any of their ill-gotten gains, if it hadn’t happened.”
Yep, absolutely. The only winners of this ballgame are those who sell the franchises the equipment to play the game.
Wonder why this simple reality is just so hard to understand?
Their ignorance is hard to rationalize since it's not as if this kind of crap hasn't been going on for decades here.