Statism in all of its vestments (like militarism) is not about benefiting citizens (of the USA or anywhere else) but about benefiting groups of interests of pow

Statism in all of its vestments (like militarism) is not about benefiting citizens (of the USA or anywhere else) but about benefiting groups of interests of powerful people that gravitate around the state apparatus. Democracy isn't liberty, and these so-called wars aren't wars but massacres sponsored by the state benefiting only a few companies sometimes referred to as "the military complex" in spite of the rest of society. https://oll.libertyfund.org/quotes/83 https://oll.libertyfund.org/quotes/83 War as Spoliation https://mises.org/library/war-spoliation https://mises.org/library/war-spoliation