Comments by "Titanium Rain" (@ChucksSEADnDEAD) on "Exposing the Military Industrial Complex" video.

  1. ​ @Tyrant_13  Right. But ever since Eisenhower made the speech about the military industrial complex, the military industry actually shrank by an order of magnitude.
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  2. ​ @fredmdbud  Is Halliburton part of the MIC? There's a difference between politicians diverting contracts to a company they have ties to, and military industry companies creating wars to sell weapons. Halliburton got infrastructure and delivery contracts. That's not MIC.
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  3. The wages and bonuses can't be higher than revenue unless someone has found the cheat code (fraud).
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  4. Not 3x the normal price. The price is the "nominal" cost price, which is higher than actual value. You buy a 50k car. It depreciates to 20k over time. You decide to give it to a friend in need because you needed to buy a new one at one point. Obviously when you buy a new 50k dollar car that's because it's the cost of a new car of the same kind (assuming no inflation). So when the US sends a 20k dollar weapon to Ukraine and writes down 50k, that's because the value you'd get on the global arms market for a used piece and the cost of a NEW replacement are different. Most likely the US would either destroy the weapon/vehicle, sell it for a really discounted price to a poorer friendly county, or even just give it away for free as military aid. So Ukraine getting the stuff instead of it being blown up or shredded to pieces costs "nothing". But replacing it costs more than the weapon/vehicle.
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  5. Purchasing power parity skews the data. American goods and labor cost a lot more than Chinese. So China can have an arms buildup while hiding behind the US costs just to keep its military at the same size as the year before.
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  6. ​ @oceanaxim  It's hogwash. Conspiracy bait.
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  7. They merged because otherwise they'd go bust lol the companies didn't team up with their rivals because they're evil, they did it because the market is shrinking and dozens of companies can't stay afloat.
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  8. Yet politicians constantly cut burger production. The F-22 burger was supposed to have over 700 buns and patties made. But politiciajs cut the contract to just around 180 burgers. Hmmm.
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  9. 0.8 of a trillion is a massive cost, but check which percentage goes into training, wages and benefits vs purchases. Also mind that currently Europe is gearing up for military manufacturing because they let it atrophy with the US essentially bankrolling a huge chunk of defense for foreign countries.
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  10. The F-15 can't be 29M in 2020. A F-16V block 70/72 is over 100 million dollars (F-16 plus spare engine and targeting pods ranges from 125-140 million). Those are contracts from the mid 2010s. Most likely 29M is an inflation adjusted cost of the original F-15C which lacked a lot of features. The F-15EX has a ton of strike and electronic warfare packages which increase capabilities and woupd be considered advanced alien tech back when the F-15C was new.
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  11. ​ @fredmdbud  Conglomerates exist because purchases and mergers are the only way to survive.
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