Why Eisenhower’s Military Industrial Complex Address Is The Most Important Speech of All Time
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The Vietnam war, President Kennedy’s assassination. The tragic murders of Malcolm X, Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy. The irresistible and inexorable rise of the Apple, Amazon, Microsoft and the arms industry.
What do these have in common?
They were predicted in the most extraordinary way by a departing President.
Even though America had won the second world war with a huge amount of support coming from Russia, the entire globe slept on the degree to which a massive geopolitical configuration had taken place.
Yes Britain and France had begun to see the liquidation of their empires and its bid to bring Egypt to heel had failed abysmally during the Suez crisis, no one really understood that the end of the war had opened a pandora’s box.
And this pandora’s box had in it, a Frankenstein's monster.
While Franklin Delano Roosevelt was able to take advantage of the mess of the Wall Street Crash to shore up government’s powers and neutralize the might of the money men in the run up to the second world war, it was clear from the late 1940s that the oligarchs had learnt the hard way and were very keen to ensure that they not…