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UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 14 hours agoNDAA authorizing almost a trillion dollars to the military industrial complex
Congress authorizes it. I guess you could just put “Congress” on the list. Or maybe “The Pentagon”.
Hundreds of thousands of civilians have died by US bombing in the last fifty years.
With Iran, Syria, and Yemen you could probably get to 100k in one or two years.
Nevermind our airstrikes across Latin America, the various African states, and our collaborations with Israel in Gaza.
Hell, the US can take credit for quite a few kills in Ukraine thanks to our long standing policy of playing both ends against the middle.
Doomsider@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
The fact that amount of money being spent is absolutely obscene and NDAA is effectively the military industrial complex.
I get you don’t think it should be on the list, but an open conspiracy is still a conspiracy.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
US military hegemony isn’t a conspiracy, it’s a popular public policy
Doomsider@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
I get what you are saying, but a conspiracy is a pretty broad definition that definitely encompasses NDAA.
“Conspiracy is an agreement between two or more people to commit an illegal act, generally requiring intent and, in many jurisdictions, an overt act toward the goal. In the U.S., federal conspiracy (18 USC 371) to defraud or commit an offense has a 5-year statute of limitations, often starting from the last overt act.”
Considering the enormous amounts of fraud that have been committed by misusing these funds along with the lack of oversight I think it would definitely be a criminal conspiracy at this point.
abc3340.com/…/pentagon-scrutiny-billions-confirme…
Who knows how much money has been missappropiated. We may never know because no one will do the work necessary to find out. What would you call an unauditable agency that is funded by tax payer money?
It is not however a conspiracy theory if that is what you are alluding to. Also, your original point of putting in Pentagon might make more sense than the framework for funding it.