I didn't realize Elizabeth Warren was so pro-military. Did you guys?

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23. The word is "hawk", meaning "pro war".

The other issue is a MIC that badly needs to be reigned in, regulated by auditors whose goal is transparency in working for the national well being.

But there's a crazy situation in the US where continuous war is coupled with continuous MIC contracts to supply weaponry to proxy/puppet/dictatorships - esp. now the ME where US backed dictators spend their nation's oil wealth to buy US arms and protection. A situation which *requires* a state of continuous war, terror, and fear, which *requires* the destruction of countries along sectarian lines so the wars are sectarian and have no conclusion.... It's a pretty fucking awful thing that the US MIC is orchestrating, and has been orchestrating for decades. Fixing it will require an entire restructuring of the US economy - and that won't happen willingly. In fact the opposite is happening as US war is increasingly privatized (like the US prison system, etc.) and the war dependent corporations are increasingly powerful, pulling more of the strings and determining more of the future of US warfare. A thing that people rarely talk about is how the privatization of war, which is concluding an accelerated trajectory in the US, means that issues of war are increasingly out of hand.