The War That Never Ends
How War Became the Operating System of America - 10 Things Killing America | Part 10
The Beast That Feeds on Blood
“America doesn’t wage wars. America is the war.”
We’ve reached the end of this 10-part autopsy on a nation bleeding out in real time, and now it’s time to rip open the chest and expose the heart of the beast. Not the media. Not the woke cult. Not even Big Tech or the pharmaceutical pimps. No. Behind all the corruption, all the censorship, all the psychotic distractions—they're just dancing monkeys. The organ grinder is the War Machine.
For most countries, war is a last resort. For America, it’s an economic engine. A lifestyle. A global subscription plan where chaos is the product and your tax dollars are the automatic payments. War is not an emergency—it’s a business model. And business is booming.
We were told war would keep us free. That it was necessary, noble, unavoidable. But the longer you stare, the clearer it gets: war is not a glitch in the system. It is the system.
Eisenhower warned us. We didn’t listen. We were too busy shopping.
JFK tried to resist. We all know how that ended.
Bush gave us terror forever. Obama gave it branding. Trump tried to slow it down. And Biden? He’s got his finger on the “send funds” button like a toddler with an iPad.
We’re talking about a complex of Pentagon suits, defense contractors, career bureaucrats, and think-tank ghouls—all making six, seven, eight figures off the promise of “freedom” that never seems to arrive.
You vote, they bomb. You struggle, they cash in. You’re being played. Left, right, and center.
Ask yourself:
Why is there always another war?
Why does peace never break out—even when the "bad guys" are dead?
Why does the military budget only ever go up, no matter who's in the White House?
Because war is no longer about victory. It’s about volume. Weapons must be manufactured. Drones must be deployed. Boots must be on the ground, or at least somewhere nearby—just in case the next "humanitarian crisis" needs a few more billion in arms shipments.
And here’s the final insult: you’re paying for it. Not metaphorically—literally. Your tax dollars build bombs. Fund coups. Install puppet regimes. All while the southern border’s a joke, your cities rot, and your kids are being taught to hate their own country in schools infested with DEI nonsense and Chinese spyware.
This isn’t just killing America—it is America. A military empire wearing the rotten skin of a democratic republic.
Welcome to the grand finale.
This is the War Machine.
The last killer on the list.
The one that never dies because you’re not supposed to notice it’s alive.
Time to look it in the face.
Chapter 1: War Is a Subscription Model
"The budget for war never shrinks—because fear is the most renewable energy source in America."
You pay for Netflix monthly. You pay for war hourly.
While Americans argue over pronouns and pronouncements, the Defense Department gets a blank check—year after year, administration after administration. Red, blue, doesn’t matter. They smile for the cameras and rubber-stamp budgets written in blood. Because in the empire of endless threats, there’s always room for one more weapons package. One more conflict. One more billion.
Let’s be clear: the United States has not been at peace for even one full generation. And not because we’re under attack. But because perpetual war is the business model.
We moved seamlessly from the Cold War to the War on Terror to whatever this current era of vague proxy entanglements is supposed to be. We don’t end wars. We just rebrand them.
Afghanistan: Twenty years. Trillions spent. We left it to the same medieval thugs we went in to fight. But Raytheon made a killing.
Iraq: Weapons of mass destruction were never found. Halliburton sure was.
Ukraine: Billions in, no audit in sight. The defense lobby wins. The taxpayers lose. Again.
Israel/Gaza: Whatever your politics, ask yourself—why is America’s response always measured in arms shipments, not diplomacy?
And it’s not just boots on the ground anymore. War has evolved into a sleek, scalable product.
Call it War-as-a-Service.
Silicon Valley got the memo. So did Lockheed. So did Microsoft and Palantir and every other tech firm now licking the boots of defense contracts while virtue-signaling “inclusion” on Instagram.
Drones, surveillance, autonomous targeting systems—we’ve gamified the battlefield. Some kid in a hoodie codes a line of algorithmic death, and somewhere across the world, a wedding turns into a war crime. It’s clean. Remote. And profitable as hell.
Ask yourself:
Why does the Pentagon fail every audit and still get a raise?
Why are we told Medicare and Social Security are unaffordable, but $886 billion for “defense” is non-negotiable?
Why did Congress clap like trained seals when Zelenskyy showed up in a sweatshirt, while American veterans sleep under bridges?
Because fear sells. War sells. And you're the customer who doesn't get to cancel the subscription.
But don’t worry—if you forget to renew, the media will remind you. A grainy video of some faraway bombing. A headline with just enough horror to keep you compliant. A reminder that evil is still out there—and only Boeing can save you.
Meanwhile, our schools crumble, our infrastructure rots, our border leaks like a sieve, and our kids overdose in record numbers.
But hey—at least we’ve got a new shipment of F-35s heading to Poland.
This isn’t foreign policy. It’s racketeering dressed in a flag.
The bloodbath must stay fresh. The narrative must stay urgent. The budget must stay bloated.
And you—you get the honor of funding it.
Chapter 2: Enemies on Demand
“If you give the State enough time, it will make you hate anyone it needs you to.”
Enemies don’t fall from the sky. They’re handcrafted. In media rooms. In war rooms. In think tanks full of unelected suits who never met a battlefield but know how to script a narrative.
America’s wars don’t begin with bombs. They begin with stories.
A villain is introduced. A grainy image, an angry accent, maybe a few words mistranslated just enough to sound monstrous. He’s dangerous. He hates your freedom. He tortures puppies and bans gay flags.
Cue the outrage.
Cue the moral panic.
Cue the military funding.
This is the formula:
Create a devil → flood the zone with fear → sell salvation through warfare.
And the scary part? It works every single time.
The average American can tell you Putin is evil, but can’t tell you what’s in the Patriot Act. They’ve never read the AUMF. They don’t know that the U.S. has military operations in over 80 countries. They can’t find Yemen on a map—but they’ll tell you with conviction that we need to "support democracy abroad."
How?
Because we've got the most advanced propaganda machine in the world—and it’s turned inward.
The media no longer reports war. It markets it. CNN, MSNBC, Fox, doesn't matter. When the war drums beat, they all salute in unison. Banners fly across the screen. “BREAKING: Airstrikes Begin.” Panels fill with retired generals who now sit on the boards of defense contractors. They tell you it's complicated. It's necessary. It's moral.
It's profitable.
And while you’re watching that circus, our schools are busy training the next batch of obedient citizens. Kids aren’t taught how to think anymore. They’re taught what to think. America bad. Founding Fathers racist. Western values oppressive. But also—we must “stand with” whichever foreign nation our State Department picked this month. No questions, no context, just hashtags and hysteria.
It’s not just about enemies abroad—it’s about enemies at home, too.
Once you've trained the public to see enemies everywhere, they start inventing them. Suddenly your neighbor with a flag is a “domestic extremist.” The parent questioning curriculum is a “security threat.” The unvaccinated are “murderers.” Trump supporters are “Nazis.” It’s the same logic as war, turned inward: dehumanize, divide, destroy.
Why? Because divided people are easy to control. And scared people are easy to sell.
Want to learn something disturbing?
The Pentagon runs simulated social media operations to test narrative manipulation on Americans. DARPA funded “narrative forecasting” programs to predict and redirect online sentiment. The CIA has been in bed with Hollywood for decades, shaping how we perceive enemies before a single bullet is fired.
They don’t just sell you wars. They sell you your own worldview. And you buy it—monthly.
Just ask yourself:
Who benefits when a new villain goes viral overnight?
Who profits when moral outrage turns into military aid?
Who wins when your emotions are weaponized and your critical thinking is shut down?
The answer isn’t complicated. It’s the same people who always win.
In this country, enemies aren’t born. They’re built. And once they've served their purpose—Osama, Saddam, Gaddafi—they’re either executed or erased.
Until the next one.
And you—you’ll be told it’s urgent. You’ll be told it’s righteous. You’ll be told it’s democracy.
But you won’t be told the truth.
Chapter 3: Silicon Valley Joins the Bloodbath
“They told us they were building a better world. Turns out they were just building a better weapon.”
Once upon a time, Big Tech promised us utopia. Connection, convenience, knowledge for all. They said the world was getting smaller, kinder, smarter. That borders were fading and wars were obsolete.
That was the sales pitch.
But behind the curtain, while they distracted you with cat filters and dopamine loops, they were building something else—a war machine that doesn’t wear camouflage. One that doesn’t march in boots. One that doesn’t need a flag or a uniform, just code and a contract.
Silicon Valley didn't join the military-industrial complex. It merged with it.
Start with Google. A company whose motto was once “Don’t be evil”—until employees leaked Project Maven, an AI program designed to help the Pentagon analyze drone surveillance footage. That’s right: your friendly neighborhood search engine was quietly training computers to identify human targets for kill missions.
Then there’s Amazon Web Services (AWS)—the digital backbone for the CIA, NSA, and the Pentagon. Every creepy backdoor surveillance op your government runs? There's a good chance it's hosted on Jeff Bezos’ servers, right alongside your Whole Foods receipt.
And Palantir—the shadowy darling of both Wall Street and Langley. Co-founded by Peter Thiel and originally funded by the CIA’s own venture arm, Palantir sells predictive policing tools to governments, ICE databases to track immigrants, and battlefield intelligence platforms for the military.
They claim it’s about “data empowerment.” You should ask the civilians in Afghanistan how that empowerment felt when it arrived via drone strike.
These companies preach ethics on LinkedIn and sell weapons-grade code behind closed doors.
They slap rainbow flags on their Twitter bios while enabling regime change on the side.
They ban you from social media for “misinformation” while selling deep surveillance tools to countries that execute journalists.
Let that sink in.
This is surveillance capitalism and modern warfare fused together—two sides of the same bloody coin. You feed the algorithm with your clicks. They feed the war machine with your data. You thought you were the user. You're the product.
And here’s the kicker most Americans don’t know:
The U.S. military is rapidly moving toward automated warfare. Autonomous drone swarms. AI target recognition. Facial tracking. Decision-making without human oversight.
The future of war won’t look like Baghdad. It’ll look like Silicon Valley got bored and built Skynet.
And these aren’t future problems. They’re now problems.
In Gaza, drones kill faster than reports can verify.
In Ukraine, predictive battlefield AI is testing real-time combat algorithms.
In China, social credit systems blend tech and tyranny—and don’t think for a second our own government isn’t taking notes.
So ask yourself:
Why is the world’s richest man building satellites and rockets—and signing contracts with the Pentagon?
Why does Meta test virtual warfare simulations under the guise of “gaming?”
Why are the same platforms that shadowban you for wrongthink helping map targets abroad?
Because war is no longer just bombs and bullets. It’s platforms. Clouds. Algorithms.
And the people who claim they’re saving democracy are selling it off to the highest bidder.
This isn’t just a chapter in America’s decline. It’s the software update of the empire. And we’re already living in beta.
Chapter 4: Freedom Is Just a Marketing Term
“Every war for freedom ends with you having less of it.”
If you want to know what freedom really means in America, try boarding a plane with a bottle of water and an opinion.
We’ve been told for decades that we fight wars to protect liberty. That the blood spilled overseas somehow secures the rights we enjoy at home.
But if that’s true—why is it that every time we fight abroad, we lose more freedom here?
The truth is simple and sickening: the wars America wages in other countries are used to justify the control of its own people.
Every “threat” out there becomes a reason to tighten the screws right here.
Freedom is no longer a value. It’s a product—and it’s been quietly discontinued.
Start with the Patriot Act—passed in a panic, barely read, rubber-stamped in the dead of night after 9/11. Americans were grieving. Shocked. Afraid. So we handed the government unprecedented powers to surveil, search, and detain—no warrant, no oversight, no recourse. “Temporarily,” they said.
That was 22 years ago. It’s still here.
The Department of Homeland Security was born from that same fear. A Frankenstein agency of federal muscle, unaccountable and bloated, spying on citizens while letting actual threats pour across the southern border. They monitor grandmas at airports more than cartel tunnels in Texas. Because it’s not about safety—it’s about optics. Control theater.
Then came the TSA, a billion-dollar bureaucracy of blue-gloved grope squads and full-body scanners. They’ve never stopped a major attack. But they have conditioned an entire generation to strip, scan, submit—and call it “security.”
You see the pattern?
They fight for “freedom” in Iraq—then spy on your phone calls in Iowa.
They bomb Syria—then scan your texts for “domestic extremism.”
They arm rebels in Libya—then arrest parents who speak up at school board meetings.
The war abroad always becomes the rule at home.
The enemy changes, the mission doesn’t: control the narrative, control the people.
And now, with digital infrastructure in place, the cage is no longer physical—it’s mental, ideological, algorithmic.
Say the wrong thing? You’re banned, deplatformed, labeled.
Question authority? You’re a threat to democracy.
Ask why your tax money is funding yet another war while your streets rot and your vets beg for help? You must be a Russian bot.
“Freedom” has become a slogan for export. We sell it overseas in missile form. But we don’t live it at home. We market it, mock it, monetize it—while quietly eroding the real thing with every “crisis.”
And here’s something most Americans still don’t know:
The Pentagon has run psychological operations on U.S. citizens.
Leaked documents revealed military personnel manipulating online conversations to shape public opinion. Twitter, Facebook, Reddit—your news feed has become a battlefield. But this war doesn’t use bullets. It uses beliefs.
Ask yourself:
Why do we send troops to fight for freedoms we don’t even exercise anymore?
Why are your kids learning more about climate guilt than the Bill of Rights?
Why do government officials openly admit they’ll censor for “national security”—and no one blinks?
Because you’ve been trained. Slowly. Methodically.
Like a frog in warm water, you didn’t notice the boil.
This chapter isn’t about nostalgia. It’s about warning.
Because if we keep mistaking slogans for substance, one day we’ll wake up and realize “freedom” was just a sticker they slapped on the cage door.
Chapter 5: Your Tax Dollars, Their Yacht Upgrades
“They won’t audit the Pentagon—but your $600 Venmo transfer is treated like a crime.”
Look around. In a country where millions of Americans are drowning in debt, losing their homes, and succumbing to the fentanyl crisis, trillions of dollars flow unchecked into the war machine—year after year, decade after decade.
While your kid’s school crumbles, while the infrastructure rots, while social safety nets are shredded, the Defense Department’s budget balloons like an untouchable monolith.
The Pentagon is a financial black hole the size of Texas. One so massive, so opaque, that no one—not Congress, not watchdog agencies, not even the president—really knows where half the money goes. Official audits? Nearly impossible. The last full audit was a disaster. Billions of dollars “unaccounted for” became the norm, and yet the budget keeps swelling.
Meanwhile, your $600 Venmo transfer sets off alarms, triggers investigations, and flags you for “suspicious activity.” Your bank watches your every dollar spent, but the Pentagon spends freely, with zero transparency, zero consequence.
Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, Boeing, Northrop Grumman—these defense giants have become the true power brokers of America. Their CEOs rake in salaries rivaling tech billionaires, their lobbyists flood Capitol Hill with cash, and their shareholders sip champagne on yachts bought with your tax dollars.
They build fighter jets that cost more than a house.
They sell missile systems that never see a battlefield except in glossy ads.
They win contracts based on political favors, not performance.
And when things go wrong? There’s no accountability.
Ask yourself:
How many bridges could be repaired for the cost of a single F-35 fighter jet, which runs about $80 million?
How many opioid addicts could get treatment with what’s spent on “defense” contracts every year?
How many families could keep a roof over their heads if even a fraction of the military budget were redirected to social programs?
Veterans, the men and women who actually fight these endless wars, come home broken—physically, mentally, and financially. Homelessness among veterans is a national scandal, but those who profit from war keep cashing in.
For decades, the Pentagon failed to pass a single audit. It wasn’t because of honest mistakes. It was because they deliberately cloaked their spending in secrecy. When forced to try, their numbers were so sloppy and suspicious that government auditors gave up, calling it “a financial black hole.”
And Congress? They reward this chaos by increasing the military budget every year. No debate. No accountability. Just rubber stamps and press releases about “protecting freedom.”
This is no accident. It’s a system built on feeding the few while starving the many.
Think about it:
Every dollar you earn, every tax you pay, helps fund yachts, private jets, lavish bonuses, and glossy offices for defense execs. The same dollars that could fund your kid’s education, fix crumbling roads, or save a life from the opioid epidemic.
The War Machine isn’t just about missiles and bombs. It’s a cash funnel to the elite. A financial fortress built on your sacrifice.
And the irony? While billions vanish into this war economy, America itself is unraveling—economic inequality soaring, trust in government plummeting, and social fabric tearing at the seams.
The empire eats well.
The citizens starve.
This is your money. This is your country.
And it’s being sold to the highest bidder.
If you want to fight back, you need to see the truth clearly: the war machine thrives on ignorance, apathy, and silence.
It wants you distracted by culture wars and cancel mobs while it drains your wallet.
If you felt the sting of these words, if this chapter shook something loose inside you—good. It means you’re awake. It means you’re ready.
The Final Blow
If America is dying, war has been both the slow poison and the final bullet.
It’s not just one cancerous growth among many. War is the cancer.
War is not a symptom of America’s decay—it is the system itself.
For decades, we’ve been sold the myth that wars are fought for liberty, for justice, for the American way. But the deeper truth you’ve uncovered in this series is far uglier, far more sinister: war is a business. A machine that feeds on chaos, fear, and the blood of innocents. A machine that never stops, because it cannot stop.
The Military-Industrial Complex is not an abstract idea from the past. It’s a living, breathing beast. It’s the government contracts handed out behind closed doors. It’s the lobbyists buying elections. It’s the tech giants building algorithms that decide who lives and who dies. It’s the endless stream of propaganda manufactured to manufacture enemies, to manufacture consent, to manufacture profit.
While you argue over pronouns and TikToks, billionaires in suits sit in boardrooms and pick targets for tomorrow’s bombs. They don’t care who dies. They don’t care what ideology you believe in. Their only loyalty is to the bottom line. To power. To the empire’s unyielding appetite.
And the rest of us? We pay for it—in taxes, in freedoms lost, in lives shattered, in dreams deferred.
Our schools crumble. Our cities rot. Our veterans sleep on streets they fought to defend. Our children inherit a country more fractured, more surveilled, and more exhausted than ever before.
This is the harshest truth of all: the war machine isn’t just killing others — it’s killing America itself.
It’s dismantling our democracy one bomb, one dollar, one lie at a time.
But here’s the final, bitter irony: the War Machine needs us to be divided, distracted, and defeated. It needs us to look away, to fight each other over culture wars while it drills deeper into our pockets and our souls. It thrives on our silence and our complacency.
So what now? What’s left when the truth is this heavy, this clear?
You fight.
You wake others.
You refuse to be a part of the silence.
You demand accountability. You expose the lies. You hold power to the fire. Because if we do nothing, if we continue to ignore the beast feeding on our country, then the America we love will be just a memory.
This series ends here—not because the truth runs out, but because the fight is just beginning.
It’s time to stare the War Machine in the face and say:
No more.
No more lies.
No more wars fought for profit.
No more freedoms sold at the altar of fear.
No more tax dollars lining yachts while our neighborhoods burn.
Because America deserves better.
Because you deserve better.
The question is simple:
Will you stay silent?
Or will you stand?
The war for America’s soul isn’t over.
It’s only getting started.
Thank you for reading.
Thank you for waking up.
And thank you for fighting.
— Ivana 🗽
The tragedy of war is that the young men and women die fighting each other - rather than their real enemies back home in their capitals. —Edward Abbey
Best piece I've read all year!