Military Industrial complex

Jiang uses it to describe the American need for new enemies that justify defense spending.

Jiang uses Eisenhower's phrase for the weapons bureaucracy he says pursues procurement and endless war instead of national strategic success.

Used here as the corrupt domestic sink that captures war spending without restoring effective military power.

Used by Jiang as a bureaucratic-war machine that requires new conflicts to justify its budgets, weapons spending, and institutional existence.

He identifies the forces behind Trump as interest blocs that want to use American power for themselves, including oil companies such as Exxon, Silicon Valley advocates of AI surveillance, and the military-industrial complex.

Jiang predicts Trump could start a war with Iran to win over the deep state, Israel lobby, military-industrial complex, and other elites.

He closes by saying Americans who benefit from empire, including Wall Street, the military-industrial complex, and suburban beneficiaries, want war with Iran.

Jiang says America imagines China as a Taiwan threat because the military-industrial complex needs new enemies to justify defense spending.

Jiang says China can triangulate by helping the United States rebuild manufacturing in North America while also financing the Russian military-industrial complex against Europe.

Trump benefits from starting wars because wars weaken the military-industrial complex and financial sector, creating vulnerability to an AI counterrevolution.

Jiang says the military-industrial complex, baby-boomer attachment to unipolar privilege, and bipartisan elite belief in empire prevent America from simply cooperating with China, Russia, and Iran.

Jiang argues that the U.S. military-industrial complex prefers never-ending wars and expensive systems over wars that serve national interest or prepare for real opponents.