{"id":48154,"date":"2022-11-21T12:26:43","date_gmt":"2022-11-21T17:26:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=48154"},"modified":"2022-11-21T12:26:43","modified_gmt":"2022-11-21T17:26:43","slug":"strengthening-the-military-industrial-complex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=48154","title":{"rendered":"Strengthening The Military Industrial Complex"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Monday, The Daily Update<\/a> posted an article about the purchase of a used icebreaker.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

Russia has 40 icebreakers, and China is bolstering its fleet to fulfill President Xi Jinping\u2019s hopes of becoming a \u201cpolar great power<\/a>.\u201d With only two ships \u2013 the heavy Polar Star and the medium Healy, both of which are nearly half a century old and 10 years past their prime \u2013 the US is playing catch up. The States are building more ships but need something in the interim, so the Coast Guard is on the verge of acquiring a vessel from private energy company Edison Chouest Offshore for roughly $125 to $150 million: \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\u2022<\/td>\n<\/td>\nThe Coast Guard needs colossal icebreakers because they\u2019re the only way to approach foreign crafts in frozen waters, conduct search-and-rescue operations or launch pollution-control efforts. The Department of Defense<\/a> also said there are plenty of opportunities for establishing commercial fishing and oil campaigns in the Arctic.<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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\u2022<\/td>\n<\/td>\nLast month, the White House released a 10-year strategic plan<\/a> to strengthen its homeland defense and deter Russian and Chinese activity in the region. Vladimir Putin\u2019s war with Ukraine has also inflamed tensions, making \u201cgovernment-to-government cooperation with Russia in the Arctic virtually impossible,\u201d the report says.<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

The article notes the following:<\/p>\n

From 2011 to 2020, the number of small and large businesses receiving DoD contracts plummeted 43% and 7.3%, respectively. As opposed to having a wide pool to shop from, the US military now begrudgingly relies on a few \u201cWalmarts of war<\/a>\u201d as University of California Professor Daniel Wirls put it. Don\u2019t expect any blue light specials on Javelin anti-tank missiles.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

The government has created a monopoly of a few companies that are supplying weapons and other goods to the Department of Defense. This is not a good situation. Eisenhower warned us about the military-industrial complex, and the Biden administration is strengthening that same military-industrial complex. Unfortunately, that is the same military-industrial complex that profits from endless wars that never seem to be over or won.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Monday, The Daily Update posted an article about the purchase of a used icebreaker. The article reports: Russia has 40 icebreakers, and China is bolstering its fleet to fulfill President Xi Jinping\u2019s hopes of becoming a \u201cpolar great power.\u201d … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[11145,16008,10548,16007,6899],"class_list":["post-48154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-department-of-defense","tag-icebreakers","tag-military-industrial-complex","tag-the-daily-update","tag-u-s-coast-guard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48154"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48156,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48154\/revisions\/48156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}