https://www.lewrockwell.com/2026/06/chuck-baldwin/the-iran-war-is-dismantling-the-american-empire/

The Iran War Is Dismantling The American Empire
By Chuck Baldwin

Avoid the necessity of those overgrown military establishments which, under any form of government, are inauspicious to liberty, and which are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.

George Washington

“Overgrown military establishments” now define the United States. For the U.S., war has little to do with defense and everything to do with feeding an always-hungry war-based economy.

Congressmen and senators from both parties are perpetually compelled to satisfy the insatiable lust for money from the public treasury by the military-industrial/surveillance-technocratic establishment in return for generous “contributions” to their re-election campaigns.

The annual taxpayer funding for the war profiteers is more than $1.5 trillion. That amounts to 750 military bases in over 80 countries all over the world. Plus, the State of Israel itself should be regarded as one giant U.S. military base, as we provide multiple billions of dollars annually to the Zionist war machine. To put it another way, Israel would not last two weeks as a functioning military force without U.S. taxpayer largess. ......