Droning the Pentagon
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/02/13/droning-the-pentagon/
An assortment of new firms, born in Silicon Valley or incorporating its disruptive ethos, are beginning to win lucrative military contracts, writes Michael T. Klare. A New Military-Industrial Complex Is Being Born By Michael T. Klare TomDispatch.com Last April, in…
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> “Non-military devices governed by AI, such as self-driving cars and facial-recognition systems, have been known to fail in dangerous and unpredictable ways; should similar failures occur among AI-empowered weaponry during wartime, the outcomes could include the unintended slaughter of civilians or the outbreak of nuclear war.”
#MichaelKlare on #AIorSALAMI
#SelfDrivingCars as #MilitaryDevices #SelfBombingNukes

This article mentions the extreme energy damage of industrial beef production(rightly) but the extremely extreme energy damage of the military is not. The article is by #MichaelKlare, some sort of energy/fossil-fuel expert and the advertisement next to the text is for his book about the Pentagon. #AmitavGhosh points out that a small-city's yearly energy use is burned up in a day by and aircraft carrier, and hour by a fighter jet. War is the health of the State, death of humanity

[2023]
> ... global elites continue to pursue strategies that will only amplify climate change, ensuring that, in the years to come, humanity will slide ever closer to worldwide collapse.
[1933] (about)
> well-to-do people, though less numerous than they are now, were certainly more civilised... The rich would think it beneath their dignity to have such knowledge, and ignorance has become the hallmark of social eminence.
- https://russell-j.com/MEDITATE.HTM
#MichaelKlare and #BertrandRussel #Elites

The Pentagon: A Global Oil-Protection Service

The most significant expression of this trend has been the transformation of the U.S. military into a global oil-protection service whose primary function is the guarding of overseas energy supplies as well as their global delivery systems (pipelines, tanker ships, and supply routes). This overarching mission was first articulated by President Jimmy Carter in January 1980, when he described the oil flow from the Persian Gulf as a “vital interest” of the United States, and affirmed that this country would employ “any means necessary, including military force” to overcome an attempt by a hostile power to block that flow.

When President Carter issued this edict, quickly dubbed the Carter Doctrine, the United States did not actually possess any forces capable of performing this role in the Gulf. To fill this gap, Carter created a new entity, the Rapid Deployment Joint Task Force (RDJTF), an ad hoc assortment of U.S-based forces designated for possible employment in the Middle East. In 1983, President Reagan transformed the RDJTF into the Central Command (Centcom), the name it bears today. Centcom exercises command authority over all U.S. combat forces deployed in the greater Persian Gulf area including Afghanistan and the Horn of Africa.

> .. the world’s ruling elites have chosen to place their #geopolitical rivalries above.. critical concerns.. planetary salvation. As a result, #GlobalWarming is indeed likely to surpass 2 degrees Celsius sometime during this century. It’s a given that almost unimaginable calamities will ensue, including the inundation of major cities, monstrous wildfires, and the collapse of agriculture in many parts of the world.
https://tomdispatch.com/the-ukraine-wars-collateral-damage/
#MichaelKlare #TomDispatch #Climate #GeoPolitics