Sunday, November 10, 2019

David Stockman — How the Deep State Really Works

If you take away the Korean threat, if you recognize the Iranians aren’t a threat, if you see that Russia is a tiny little country that’s not going to invade Western Europe and crash through the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, and so forth—
All of a sudden somebody is going to do the math as we get into the coming fiscal crisis and say, “We can’t afford all this defense that we don’t need. Let’s cut it back dramatically.”
They don’t want this to happen. And so, they have to keep these hot spots burning and these threats maintained or inflated, because they know if the real truth of the world were considered by Congress, the defense budget would be slashed dramatically.…
The president of the United States should be leading the great global disarmament conference of 2021, and yet that won’t even come up. It’s not even on the radar screen.
It’s not even mentioned [in the campaign] because, as I say, the Warfare State machinery essentially squelches any kind of debate, suffocates any kind of thought that at all deviates from the status quo.
The big issue in the world today is war and peace, and we’re facing a campaign in 2020 where it won’t even be mentioned.
We knew this already but here is former US budget director telling us how it works in the warfare state versus the welfare state. Follow the money.

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David Stockman on How the Deep State Really Works
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9 comments:

Kaivey said...

An excellent article. I was arguing with someone on Twitter about Western propaganda so I sent him this. As David Stockman is on the right, it was even more powerful.

Kaivey said...

I agree with you on that.

He says he's a libertarian, which means no thought - just a load of soundbites.

Matt Franko said...

"been wrong for nearly 40 years with his ignorant debt fears"

Platonism in action... never make any corrective adjustment in the face of repeated failure... just dogmatically advocate for your thesis and never test it .... until you eventually die and then your survivors will synthesize your thesis with some other thesis then the results of this method are therefore still f-ed up and society never gets any improvement...

Sick demented f-ing morons...

take some training in Science already...

Matt Franko said...

Stockman: "for 40 years doing the same thing and expecting a different result..."

Theyre insane...

S400 said...

”Platonism in action... never make any corrective adjustment in the face of repeated failure... just dogmatically advocate for your thesis and never test it ...”
Lol! That makes you Matt one of the worst of them all.

Kaivey said...

It was still a good article on the Deep State and its propaganda, and it fitted the bill nicely when I was arguing with a right-winger on twitter who didn't believe the West did propaganda. If Stockman had been on the left he would have ignored it, but he is on the right. After I sent him this I never heard from him again.

Blissex2 said...

There is a very important point beyond warfare for the bigging up by propaganda of various foreign threats: tight supranational organizations like the USA or the UK or even Spain are subject to centrifugal forces, that would lead them to split. Having a common enemy, real or imagined, help to keep them united. Sometimes I think that even if very important in its own right warfare is used by strategic thinkers to get a lobby that supports the bigging up of imagined enemies.
I reckon that there are some strategic thinkers who believe sincerely that the USA, the UK, Spain are overall better off as united as they are currently, and are quite cynical as to how to keep them united.

Greg said...

@S400

Exactly right.

Matt

Where is your testing of your Art Degree/Platonism thesis ? Or are you just going to dogmatically stick with it?

BTW, you’ve been quick to call just about everyone a moron but you’ve never said who you think gets it and should be listened to. You? Donald Trump?

Nebris said...

I think Franko once carried a torch for some Hot Artsy Gal and she totally shot him down and he's never ever gotten over it.