War gives politicians an excuse to do what they do best: spend your money. From el gato malo at boriquagato.substack.com:
one of the reasons corrupt governments love war so much is that it’s an all access excuse to do the unthinkable. you can direct it abroad or focus it at home. you can fund and staff foreign battles or you can wage campaigns upon your own people and the potential to grab more power, misbehave more egregiously, and act with even less fiscal restraint presents itself all over from graft to grift to just plain degenerate profligacy.
need a few zillion dollars to fund defense contractors, cronies, corrupt regimes, and skim a bit for yourselves? no problemo. war is the way to go
“You’re not an entrepreneur; you’re a want-repreneur.”
wanna crack down on your own peaceful people and literally make them turn to violent black markets that you can then use to elicit ever more crackdowns? use the war on drugs to take their rights and property then blame them for the rise of the cartels to whom you’re granting oligopoly and price supports.
it goes on and on and we see these forever-wars for no gain ratchet ever upward in their budgets as we war on terror, poverty, racism, fantastical “phobias,” claims of privilege, and whomsoever last upset the neocons or the classic backbone of globalist warlord democrats. half of this charade is making sure you feel constantly attacked so you’ll allow the war makers to invoke some form of war powers.
