• WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Oligarchies require a constant pipeline of conflicts, failed states, and terrorists to distract the commoners while they’re being robbed.

    The history of US politics and “intelligence” agencies is no different. They get political points for fighting some “other”, the energy/resource contracts for coup-ing some gov, then get the military contracts of the replacement gov to fight the insurgents/revolutionaries/terrorists they created. It’s win win!