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Deep State Witch

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1. It Keeps the Military Industrial Complex

Reply to Uncle Joe (Original post)

Mon Nov 24, 2025, 12:27 PM

Yesterday

Well funded. I was in it (well, the Intelligence-Industrial Complex) from the end of the Cold War, through the 90's drawdown, through 9/11 and the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars. Even though we were *technically* not at war after the first Gulf War, we were still the World's Policeman. We still had military actions in Haiti, the Balkans, and were policing Iraq. 9/11 gave the War Pigs an all-you-can-eat buffet.

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