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Do you ever wonder how the United States Military-Industrial Complex got its start? How did we transition from a variety of companies working on wartime necessities to a select few juggernauts profiting off the lives of American soldiers? According to Vivek, you can trace the origins back to a 1993 dinner event coined “The Last Supper.” Hosted by Les Aspin, Clinton’s Secretary of Defense at the time, this dinner gathered key defense players at the Pentagon. The outcome? It fundamentally altered America’s landscape, turning the nation into a war machine churning out “forever wars,” all so the executives of these very few, hand-picked defense companies could add infinity pools to their various mansions.

Vivek breaks it down in straightforward terms, spelling out exactly what this evil entity—created by our own government—is up to and how it came into existence:

Just over 6 months ago, the Pentagon announced its largest budget in American history: $842 billion, *half* of which will go to for-profit defense contractors. The military-industrial complex’s recent roots trace to a 1993 secret Pentagon dinner hosted by Bill Clinton’s Secretary of Defense Les Aspin who summoned CEOs of America’s largest defense contractors to the so-called “Last Supper” to lobby the nation’s top defense contractors into consolidations by merging with one another.

It worked: the number of prime contractors in the United States has dropped by 90%, from 50+ in the 90s to just 5 today, creating a concentrated cartel of defense contractors who profit handsomely from war.

Take a shoulder-fired Stinger missile that is used today in the Ukraine war: In 1991, it cost $25,000. Today, it costs more than $400,000 to replace each missile sent to Ukraine. Even adjusting for inflation & product improvements, that’s a >7x cost increase.

In 2015, a Pentagon review found Lockheed Martin and its subcontractor, Boeing, were grossly overcharging the Pentagon & US allies by hundreds of millions of dollars for the Patriot’s PAC-3 missiles: total profits approached 40%.

Is it a coincidence the Department of Defense is the only US federal agency to *never* have completed or passed an audit? This isn’t a conspiracy theory, it’s just mundane reality.

Understand this: What Vivek explained shines a bright and revealing light on everything we’re seeing unfold today. It also puts into perspective why certain individuals don’t want Donald Trump back in the White House. He’s not an “insider” with a “Last Supper” agenda, which makes him incompatible with the US, which is now essentially a war-mongering apparatus that lumbers around from country to country, poking bears and starting fires behind the scenes. That’s why, the very moment Trump is ousted by a tsunami of unverified mail-in ballots, all hell breaks loose. It’s an easy pattern to spot once you know what to look for.

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