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by type0 1857 days ago
What are you talking about, the military industrial complex made an insane amounts of money from that war.
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> The US intervenes in plenty of places where there is no profit motive outside of the standard military industrial complex.

It was the cold war. I'm pretty sure the MIC could have justified so much spending in other ways besides vietnam, but we are venturing into counterfactual territory.