…. reaches around the world.
From a longer piece in Mother Jones about the accumulated effects of the power and reach of the current administration’s ideology.
Indeed. The military has become not just our war-fighting and occupying force, but our main “nation-building” force, our major diplomatic force (now that military-to-military relations have become the essence of foreign policy), our preponderant intelligence force, a major propaganda outfit (or call it public diplomacy, if you will), our central ministry for advanced R&D research and basic science, the only part of the government seriously preparing for a global-warming world, and our planetary rescue outfit as well — to name just a few of its roles. With more clearly to come.
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