The non-sense is that you're basically saying that the US created the armaments industry as a means to an end - NOT the other way around, which is what it's bei

The non-sense is that you're basically saying that the US created the armaments industry as a means to an end - NOT the other way around, which is what it's being labeled as a conspiracy theory. It wasn't the "American makers of plowshares" that decided to pivot to the weapons business and started to make wars. They were funded to switch their production. Why would the armaments industry be "creating wars" (what ever that means), if the country - per your Eisenhower quote - requires them to keep developing and producing armament? Basically they are paid with or without wars.