Second: Narratives of geopolitics: the military-industrial complex

Dr.. Amr Muhammad Abbas Mahjoub

When groups of Palestinian resistance were launched inside the occupied territories, for the first time in many decades, on October 7, 2023, they were thus opening the basement of the influence of the global geopolitical butterfly “Al-Aqsa Flood,” which extended to Europe, the Americas, Asia, the parallel media, Russia, China, and the new Jewish voices in defense of Palestine on the outskirts of the world. But it also led to the unveiling of decades of hypocrisy, cover-up, and structural deficit. The most important of them are the details and structure of the “military-industrial complex” and the Zionist lobby AIPAC, which share actual power in a huge theater decorated with claims of democracy, human rights, freedom of expression, and so on in the United States of America and the West in general.

US President Dwight Eisenhower is known to be a moderate conservative who continued the policy of his Democratic predecessor, Franklin Roosevelt, the New Deal, which means “relief, recovery, and reform.” These three words refer to relief for the unemployed and the poor, reviving the economy to its levels, and expanding social security. During his reign, he launched the Interstate Highway System, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, established strong science education through the National Defense Education Act, and encouraged the peaceful use of nuclear energy through amendments to the Atomic Energy Act.

“Our military establishment is a vital element in the maintenance of peace,” U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower noted in his farewell address to the nation on January 17, 1961. “Our weapons must be powerful, ready for immediate response, so that no potential aggressor decides to risk his own destruction.” This meeting between The huge military establishment and large military industries is something new in the American experience.” He warned of the military-industrial complex, and that the potential exists for the disastrous rise of misplaced power, and will continue to exist. We must never let this complex jeopardize our freedoms and democratic processes.

The reasons why many people remember that speech in particular are the warning it included about the rise of the “military-industrial complex,” which he described as aiming for permanent armament of enormous proportions, and that there is a possibility of him obtaining – whether he seeks to do so or not – unjustified influence. In the corridors of government. This was completely achieved by the expansion of the military-industrial complex to a terrible degree since September 11, 2001. In a period of less than ten years, spending on military and security affairs increased 119 times!

He once famously said in defense of his argument: “The fundamental problem in defense is how far you can go, and continue, before you destroy from within the very thing or things you seek to protect from outside force.”

In the speech he delivered after the death of Joseph Stalin, Eisenhower said: “Armaments are a matter not only of spending money, but of spending the sweat of workers, the genius of scientists, and the hopes of children as well.

The intertwined relations between the complex and the political system began to become clear in an unusual way with the emergence of the Internet and means of communication, and the picture that began dimly with Eisenhower’s speech was completed and revealed as a picture of the interpenetration of money and power in drawing the image of an empire based on wars and armed interventions, and the transformation of the democratic state, as it sings, into a system Heavily armed, it has a state.