The Military Industrial Complex Ike Warned Us About

Rep. Brian Mast: "This has gone on and it does deplete US stockpiles, but those stockpiles exist for us to use" pic.twitter.com/mcN4VpcgdJ

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) August 17, 2026

FDR didn’t build the Pentagon as a military center. That was supposed to be temporary. Its real purpose was to house government records.

Then Korea followed WWII, and lit the match for the Cold War. 

And yes, the greatest fear of the nuclear buildup of that “war” was that we were building them to use them. Mast may think he’s limiting the word “stockpiles,” but even if he does, it doesn’t mean we can restock them by Christmas.

And why do we have a standing military we pay billions for if it runs out of munitions this fast? Maybe because ETTD?