Eisenhower's Warning about the Military-Industrial Complex
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- Опубліковано 20 сер 2024
- “Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.” -President Eisenhower
It's real hard to undo 60 yrs of not paying attention.
Or just not caring
@Aaron Saucedo when the bombs where dropped in Japan is when it started in my opinion. The paranoid delusions of men that had no right to hold such loftey possessions made catastrophically bad decisions, murdered thousands of innocent human being's all to prove a point. A point that had no merit as Japan was in a situation where it would have surrendered.
The psychology of creating such a destructive force and use it as some form of morally justified action is heinous. America after that was the supreme super power country, and millions have lost their lives at it's hand since.
Never mind. Scottish Independence has never looked so hopeful.
Back to the EU.
Brilliant.
Luv and Peace.
@@ianedmonds9191 just as the one world government is trying to take over everything. Although I would like to see it become independent I think the 1st port of call is independence from the politicians that are running it.
Nothing to do with not paying attention. It's a lack of action
After seeing this and doing various amounts of research I think it’s fair to say Dwight Eisenhower is my favorite President
Welcome my fellow Eisenhower friend
everybody likes ike
He's alright in the grand scheme of things. Lincoln is still my favorite. FDR is still my number two.
Watch the docu , Why we fight, by Eugene Jarecki.
Eisenhower was asked to run for president by both the Democrats and the Republicans. He chose the Republicans simply because he thought the country had been too long under Democratic administration under Roosevelt and Truman (though he had nothing against Truman) His post-war administration was called "The era of Good Feeling" for good reason.
It’s ironic because Ike was the one who ramped up the Military-Industrial Complex to the Permanent Monster it is today. It must be said though, it is much appreciated that he came to realize his mistake and gave us that speech, that warning to allude to for decades to come.
To be fair to Eisenhower, he was in the Cold War during his Presidency
everyone tried their best to bury this speech too
It's common for authority figures to give a fake apologies after having full intent of their action and full knowledge of its risks and consequences. Had they known the future they still would have done it.
Doves don't make their way to the top, serpents do.
Edward Teller & the CIA had deliberately deceived him about the nuclear armaments and military muscle of the USSR. This is partly in response to finding out he'd been betrayed. He was pissed.
@@steveweinstein3222 CIA was run by Nazis. The biggest mistake America have ever made is invite them over. Should have just executed most of them or let USSR deal with them. At least US would be more cleaner than China today. The amount of people dead that can change the world because of CIA corruption & assassination is beyond the charts now.
It's a shame we have so many ignorant and greedy people in this country that arguing for this side of the fight, for humanity, feels futile.
Although I disagree a lot with Bernies platform, I really appreciate him posting this
To bad he’s no longer against the complex🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣he swapped up real fast when he got his first mill he didn’t like the taxes he was hit with🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
he will delete it soon
we have failed, by not holding this government accountable.
Yes, Trump's presidency has set a bad example to his successors on just how far a president can push his power around. You can bet the next presidents will never go back down from it.
@@ElBandito
i could name bullet points from Obama, Bush Jr, Clinton, Bush Sr, and Reagan.
....that we literally should have rioted over, if we had any integrity.
our country commits literal crimes, and violates human rights.
They freely commit war crimes with tax payers money so they dont really care as they know they can forcefully take tax. People are starving all around the world and these disgusting people who are in government are criminals in suits.
If our leaders wanted to take care of the people starvation and homelessness would be eradicated. Their are enough resources in the world for this which are basic needs for any human being but the elite want to reduce population so starvation and homelessness is perfect for thier agenda.
As history taught us all empires have fallen so this is another era of the corrupt elite which will fall as nothing last forever.
And today, Nancy Pelosi would have the nerve to ask Eisenhower "how ya gonna pay for that school?"
Not too sure. Ike was having beers with LBJ and other Senate leaders on the weekends. I’m sure he’d be able to reason with that crazed bat Nancy
That’s what Republicans say too lmao
Thank you. I've never heard more than the key sentence of this speech. It's true and profound.
This guy makes a good point. Should definitely run for president.
"This guy makes a good point. Should definitely run for president."
Eisenhower?
I'd vote for either of these guys
@@chrismullaney9042 unsure if your joking and it’s going over my head but the first guy was president
@@acat7798 ya right.
I'm not taking any advice from a cat.
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@@chrismullaney9042 bruh that was literally Dwight Eisenhower what do you mean
One of the greatest President's warned us on live TV and we didn't listen.
We've been going the wrong way for a very long time. Ignorance combined with arrogance is killing us all. The life of this planet may not survive the stupidity of mankind. Let there be Peace!
The planet will survive, but we will not. Bank on it.
@@thatbird2 God will destroy the earth & all planets after Day of resurrection this earth was solely built for humans & the spirits (Djiin) in the parallel world we cant see. It will end soon next 50-100 or so years will come Judgement day thereafter Heaven & Hell. Pray to God choose wisely
humanity will survive no matter what, but we won't live a good and peaceful life if the wars keep going.
@@justinbauer175 Let me enlighthen you.
I was wandering. Very depressed. Went through a traumatic breakup. I started spiraling. I lost hope in humanity and started to think everything was meaningless. I started to do things that were so shameful. God saved me. There is a sequence of events that brought me to believe, and they span several years. I'm amazed and humbled, and my Faith in God and humanity is restored. We're precious. God truly loves us and is real. Also, as I was reading scripture I started to feel like scripture was reading me. Those messages between the lines in the Old and New Testaments are sacred, true, and good. If you're ever wavering in your Faith, start reading Psalms. They'll lift you up again. Take care everyone. Much love. 🙏
@@cralo2569 Whatever makes you feel better, pal.
We all need something in our lives, but not everyone needs religion.
Egos and paranoia has taken hold of your goverment. Get some big hearts in that office.
Write in bernie
Our president just named the military-industrial complex on live tv
This message is especially relevant during the COVID crisis, where many small business are going under and so many people are in danger of being evicted from their homes. MORE for the people, LESS for the military! The USA used to be a shining example of governance, but now it is only laughable. And finally, I very much admire Eisenhower.
Eisenhower was a friggin general and still had the sack to make this speech.
The ones who actually have seen war are the ones who end up being against it. Then you have the chickenhawks like Bush, Cheney, Rove, Reagan, Limbaugh, Trump, Ted Nugent, John Wayne, etc who are little pussies who avoid service and then want to play badass later.
May 2022 - Bernie agrees to give Ukraine $40B without explanation of what is to be spent on and w/o an independent IG to keep account of what it's spent on.
good to see at least 1 smart man in the comments , all the others have already fallen back to sleep in supporting the MIC
@@polypolar everyone else who knows better has given up on every American. Every politician is a capitalist by nature because they have to raise funds. So they almost always in some way support war and the benefits that it provides to western nations.
Bernie Sanders knows that the Ukraine War is because of the pentagon and the privatization of our military by those with monied interests. Bernie’s concern is the Ukrainian people.
Yup I clearly remember that, I’ve seen this, he was right the Military industrial complex is currently the biggest threat to world peace
It transforms, the head of that Military industrial complex that Eisenhower was referring to died in 1986 but the group continues as a network of transnational corporations making money from US sponsored genocide and looting around the planet that the US media is not permitted to show the American public.
Biden is full part of the military-industrial complex, he is going to send back troops to Irak
As an Australia, I don't understand how people deem Sanders as "radical" left. The vast majority of his ideals and propositions are genuinely formed with the compassionate consideration of the welfare of Americans. Ya'll Americans really missed out on Bernie.
Ya complete socialism and taking more rights away. Fuck that guy. Here you sit with no right to defend yourself or your family
@@landonlandon5533 defend our family from what lol? drop bears? the right to bare arms means fuck all when the tanks come rolling down your street corner
I don’t think 10% is enough
I would prefer a 50% cut
10% is a great start and moves the discussion... 70 billion dollars- you know how many hungry kids that will feed? How many poor people will be able to survive another day?
You have to propose something that will get more than a handful of votes in order to move the conversation.
More than 10% and the Republicans will fearmonger the public into siding against the bill. How many millions of Americans are still scared of the Red Russian/Chinese boogieman? Too many.
#Veterans In Solidarity
That's right, brother.
*War Is A Racket,* By USMC Maj. Gen. Smedley D. Butler
ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.pdf
_"WAR is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives."_
_"I spent thirty-three years...in active military service as a member of this country's most agile military force, the Marine Corps...And during that period, I spent most of my time being a high class muscle-man for Big Business, for Wall Street and for the Bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism."_
*Maj. Gen. Smedley D. Butler,* From a speech (1933)
People should read Orwell’s 1984. All our world can be understand throught this novel. And the idea that the gouvernement spent huge quantity of money for the military, so that the people dont have enought is also there.
The US can barely be called a democracy these days
@Nuke 'EmAll not this nonsense again. It's a democratic republic we all know the stupid semantics and we all know what we are talking about. No need to bring the old "Uh, it's a rEpUBlic" thing over and over again. It's been done to death. It's a democratic republic hence under the broader definition of a democracy. But it's not. It's an oligarchy in essence. Not a republic. Not a democratic republic. An oligarchy. And sorry but very few people who support communism also support Bernie.
Bernie is a socialist. Socialists are not communists. You jump over stupid semantics but don't understand the functional and very practical and real difference between Socialists and very particular socialists called communists. Not all Socialists support communism kid. You don't understand what definitions actually need differentiation and debate and which are just semantic nonsense meant just to frustrate people.
Bernie Sanders:" I will not yield"
He hasn't given up yet! He never will!
Bernie will fight for the well being of the people from where ever he is--if not as a president, then as a senator.
@@ElBandito amen
You increased the budget by 15% last year, now you want to go back only 10%, how about we defund the offensive/regime change wars; and go all the way back to our 1980 military budget.
How about you go to the 2% of GDP NATO threshold?
You should really decrease the military budget by a third.
BERNIE IS THE LEADER WE NEED AND WHO WOULD BE THE MOST BELOVED AND EFFECTIVE PRESIDENT SINCE FDR JOIN THE PEOPLES CAMPAIGN TO WRITE IN BERNIE'S NAME
even 10% would do a ton of good; 70+ billion. Yes, I'd honestly like more like 25-50% but it'd be hard to get that to pass. He's aiming for 10% because he thinks he can actually get that amount through.
hell yes
What are you talking about? Bernie has voted against all three of Trump's Defense budgets.
Eisenhower, the only Republican I ever respected
Abe Lincoln was one of the founders of the party.
Remember when Republicans fought the dems in order to abolish slavery ? Dems were, are and will always be full of sh*t
@@deepflake9214 The Democratic Party isn’t good, but at least it doesn’t treat lgbt people and police shooting victims like shit. Yet every time I hear republicans/conservatives talk about any of those groups of people, they always seem to try to justify violence against them.
@@ABCodeX lgbt people already have the same rights than straights in most of the country. It is not a problem for the government anymore. They are already laws that protect them. What more could a federal government do ? Nothing.
And about police shooting victims : did you look at the numbers published online by the FBI ? I did. Actual victims, ie non armed victims, are extremely rare for a 300+ MILLIONS inhabitants country. It is not a real problem; those are isolated incidents, which obviously shock the public and are instrumentalised by politicians. But those are just that in reality : rare incidents. Said incidents are unavoidable, even if robots replaced policemen, and will keep on being instrumentalised for ever and ever.
Thousand more people will die in the wars that Biden will create. He already wants to send thousands more soldiers in Irak.
THAT is a real problem.
Trump didn’t start a single war, pulled us out of the Middle East, and created energy independence. How have those gas prices been the last 4 years? Say goodbye. Our Muslim allies want their money back..
Thanks so much Bernie for your valiant efforts! Hopefully, we're making cracks in the "wall" of injustice and greed where light can get through--
and one day sooner than later I hope-- so many cracks that wall just won't stand anymore! That's why this is a movement, and movements can take quite a while, but bit, by bit, by bit...
Boy has this country fallen. Where's the leadership? Trump was just bragging in the Wallace interview about spending 2 trillion on the military and new rockets
@Nuke 'EmAll I tell everyone I'm moving to Europe first chance I get. This country has issues
Cut the military budget! Yes, Bernie!
Such a strange and glaring thing to mention in a farewell address. Time has definitely vindicated Eisenhower and his prediction….if only people listened.
Because a healthy and educated country is a strong country.
END OF STORY.
Thankyou Bernie you are the Truth!!
Great ad, but 10% is pretty lame. I thought the budget was just increased by 10%
I agree 10% isn't enough but it's a start.
The Repubs will fearmonger the public into siding against anything larger than 10%, unfortunately.
Why aren't you still running my lord.
Unnatural09 Dude, Eisenhower is dead.
@@neveraskedforahandle 😅😅😂😂
Aaron Jackson I didn't know Eisenhower looked like Bernie
He lost
havahog who?
Why start at 10% when we all know it’ll end up being 1-5% after negotiations.
It should’ve been at least started at 25%.
Because any proposal that is seen as beyond the realm of reason will hurt the long term goal. Would it kill people to develop just a little sense of strategy?
The Repubs will fearmonger the public into siding against anything larger than 10%, unfortunately.
Whichever president would have proposed to cut the defence budget by 25% would have his brains blown out while on a road trip in Dallas.
@@KillerofWestoids hey, i think i've seen this one before!
Throw your hat back in the ring, Mr. Sanders. This nation needs your guidance and integrity.
Calling my representatives NOW!
Bernie, you are truly special to our country!
Special😂😂😂😂 he's just another talkinghead for the Deepstate puppetmasters
Sadly we had a president who stood up to the military industrial complex and they did, and continue to do, everything they can to get rid of him.
Trump was against the MIC?
@@m1r__ yes. That's why they came after him so hard. Have you ever considered its a little weird that Biden was the point man in Ukraine and then when he gets in office, we have war? We didn't have any new wars under Trump. There was even a pentagon official who lied to the Trump, the comander in chief, about troop levels in Syria. That is undemocratic and the definition of mutiny.
bernie is the only human in the senate
I find it very ominous that Bernie uploaded this
How so?
Originally broadcast Jan. 17, 1961.
Thank you
Damn and disband the DNC. Without it we would have had the strongest democratic candidate in modern history. One that would have brought real systemic changes this country desperately needs!
Chris Howard It just blows my mind people couldn’t see that. Well, that’s what happens when the only candidate for the people is ghosted by the media, and backstabbed by the DNC. If not president, why not Vice President? It a compromise.
@@Caperhere Both you and Chris should know, if you were politically knowledgeable, that Bernie is an Independent. Because of his ego, by putting Hillary Clinton through a grueling primary race leaving her winded to fight the 😈, we got that 😈 as president. And what has Bernie Sanders accomplished in his thirty + years as senator?? Not much. Hillary has worked her behind off for women and children issues and more , for years. Bernie promised "pie in the sky" but knew theses promises we're never going to happen. Ideally, his thoughts on tuition free college , good healthcare for all, etc. were great but never in this Capitalist society. He knows this. Let's see what he does on the Labor board, is it,??
Defund the military
The country is deeply ill.
Crazy how this was the last chance to save the republic and my fellow Americans said nah, fuck it, let’s continue ruining the lives of humans all over and in America as well.
As supreme allied commander of all forces of Europe, he lost millions of men. He knew the cost of war.
Wonder what he would have thought of the prices of todays fighter jets
And yet Bernie has done nothing in his power to halt the MIC. Don’t use a great man’s warning as a tool to make yourself look better
Thanks for sharing this important video, Bernie Sanders!
Lol 2 years later. Here we are!
"WAR IS A RACKET
It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one International In scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives...
A RACKET is best described, I believe as something that is NOT what it seems to be to the majority of people. Only a small "inside" group knows what it is really about.
It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many.
Out of WAR a few people make huge fortunes."
Major General Smedley D. Butler, 1935 U.S. Marine Corps,
Two-time winner Congressional Medal of Honor
Sen Sanders, waiting on your next roundtable. : ) Be well & keep washing your hands!
I agree with what Eisenhower said, 100%. Not with phoney men.
and who said that was not a socialist, a hippie, an anti-war activist but a republican president of the US during the cold war, what happened to the republican party, in this century they invaded afghanistan and iraq, opposed the nuclear deal with iran, they supported the saudi military intervention in yemen and the israeli apartheid of netanyahu, not to mention the nonsense that the democrats did in foreign policy, but the issue is how the party of lincoln and eisenhower became a proto-fascist party, which defends the war on drugs, the death penalty, the influence of Christian fundamentalism in politics, the war on terror, suppression of minority voting, opposes the removal of Confederate statues from public spaces, defends the "legacy" of the Confederates and condemns black lives matter, historic reparations, and the teaching of america's racist past in public schools, the party of the president who abolished slavery and the president who criticized the m-industrial complex military, became a neo-fascist party
The economic boost with adding additional fund towards improving what you are protecting should be reason enough.
How did we ever get Biden
When rigging elections has become the norm in the USA.
Ike may have floated the term "military-industrial-Congressional complex" but, even if he didn't, we can en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military%E2%80%93industrial_complex
Please send this video worldwide on all news channels
I'm starting to think this wasn't a warning, rather a declaration
Bernie VP or NO Biden for Me - why would we let the .1% CHOOSE our Vice President when MILLIONS of citizens VOTED for Bernie Sanders. Withhold your support for Biden (crooked) until Bernie (integrity) is VP.
This didn’t age well for Bernie.
One of the last truly anti-corporate U.S. presidents.
When one of America's best remembered generals says the military gets to much money there is a reason
Nobody ever listens though. Even Putin when he said Ukraine is a red line and instead sent multiple peaceful proposals, all were declined by Biden. Look it up, it's not like Putin just went it he sent multiple proposals to both Zelenskyy and Biden. Biden wanted a war.
He did and supporting the democratic party (and, obviously, also the Republican party) supports the military industrial complex.
BERNIE IS THE LEADER WE NEED AND WHO WOULD BE THE MOST BELOVED AND EFFECTIVE PRESIDENT SINCE FDR
Research Elenor
What ended up being president Eisenhower’s speech about the military industrial complex was first to be about the military industrial scientific complex and then it was to be the military industrial congressional complex.
Now a bomber (specifically just the stealth B-2 Spirit) is upwards of around $3.68 billion+ per vehicle (factoring in program costs) and would pay for over 176 modern-day high schools.... on top of that, the operational cost is around $230,103 an hour....
I did this little bit of math adjusting from 1997 to 2021 inflation just to put things into perspective for you guys. It's absolutely fucking disgraceful and insulting for that much money to be wasted on war. And that's just 1 aircraft. I dare not even jump into the F-35 program.......
I am not for the military industrial complex when my countrymen and women need additional, monthly stimulus checks to put food on the table, pay utilities, and subsidise rent or morgage payment.
Eisenhower was the last Republican president who wasn't absolute garbage.
It's funny that Bernie Sanders tried to draw a parallel between himself and President Eisenhower. They are completely different.
The System is corrupt and broken.
Single payer Healthcare for all . Green new deal. Green jobs . Free college
......all taken care of by slowly wiping out the overbloated defence budget ....that's always used to fight illegal wars.
Yes. Ty. ❤
Eisenhower is an underestimated president. In my opinion he was better than JFK, at least
What exactly is that military industrial complex and it's function? Like a company for wars?
If anyone should know about killing, it’s Eisenhower. Allied commander in WW2.
This video needs to go viral
Let's keep fighting for a President Bernie Sanders administration.
DON'T ACCEPT THE ROTTEN CHOICES DICTATED TO US BY THE ESTABLISHMENT.
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@@Davegre200 Bernie is amazing
Unless your party gives you a dirty look.
Then you drop the WMEAT reporting requirement, and support the Pepe Brigade with literally every bit of defense budget you have.
JOIN THE PEOPLES CAMPAIGN TO WRITE IN BERNIE'S NAME.
I don’t suppose there’s any chance of pulling the ultimate switcheroo at the convention?
Eisenhower and teddy roosevelt are one of the most progressive president.
I wonder where Mr. Sanders stands with the UAP issue?
Bernie is the one of few American politicians who know what is truly important to people in the country.
Spoken by a Republican war hero who helped win WW2. I Wonder what the modern Republican party would thinl of him today ?
here is another great Republican President you should get to know Theodore Roosevelt ua-cam.com/users/shortsCgnCHy5iwJg?feature=share
As an ex expat (I lived in Belgium, Germany, and Czechia for half of my life
Eisenhower wouldn’t be a republican today
AND LIVING OFF THE CREAM..🤐🥮⏯️🕎✡️
Yet a competition was created.
We have some problemos...
Omar logic good example mate
Opportunity lost. Sanders would have transformed the Country for the benefit of everyone. Now when we need someone with vision and wisdom they give us a Republican with a "D" in front of his name.
Why is everything so expensive today?
Biden cutting of fracking, useless agencies (EPA & Dept of Education)
QUEEN!!!👑😌💅
My entire city lives beside a military base and we are all electricuted and trained like animals by radio technology......the horror is unbelievable
Apart of me wishes that Americans would listen to President Eisenhower's farewell address to the national because it showed what America would become in the future Eisenhower knew what would happen if this problem wasn't bought under control.
Watch the docu , Why we fight, by Eugene Jarecki.
A tiny portion of that defense budged could improve the life of many Americans. You could be healthier, economically more stable and then, happier.
After all this years of sacrificing yourselves to serve a World superpower, I think you all deserve it.
I am not an American but I strongly agree with Eisenhower more money should be spent on building weapons for the military but should be used to build infrastructure in the country
The money spent on a single basic fighter aircraft like the F35 could pay for healthcare for 1000 Americans for 10 years. And that's before you factor in maintenance costs.
The US currently has about 500 of the F35 alone, and 1000s of other aircraft.
F35s cost about $100M each.
Medicare costs about $10K per person per year.
How can u dislike this??
A lot of Americans make a living off the MIC