The United States has a massive propaganda apparatus — intelligence agencies, weapons manufacturers, and media — that creates conflicts and manufactures public sentiment for war, enabling wars that would otherwise be impossible to sell to the public.

It's so big and it's so sophisticated. And it's so, it's not just that there's, there's this, there's the intelligence agencies, there's the weapons manufacturers, then there's the like people in the media who are either directly or indirectly just parroting, you know what I mean, all of their talking points. And so it's not just that you can kind of like, you make money when there's a conflict, but you have this entire apparatus to like create the conflict and then create the public sentiment for that. ... the United States, the idea that in 1991, the United States of America would feel threatened by Iraq was just ridiculous. And yet they were able to do it.

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