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by dingaling
3433 days ago
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> the biggest U.S. arms companies employ ~700.000 people Which is about one-half of Walmart's employee base, but the USA doesn't base its foreign policy on the whims of the Walton family. What's more persuasive about the military-industrial-government complex is that most of its leaders emerged from the same universities and think-tanks. Essentially they share the same viewpoints and philosophies and can pull the appropriate levers in the domains that the control and they freely move from one domain to another. |
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This doesn't take away the fact that there is interest in having these companies operating in the future.
> but the USA doesn't base its foreign policy on the whims of the Walton family.
If by "the USA" you mean the government, yes you are right, because it doesn't have to. Companies as big as Walmart, Lockheed Martin, McDonald's are fully capable of influencing the 'outside world' by their own means.