Originally posted by Doc
While I'll not deny that America is a 'consumerist' society, it spends a far greater proportion of its national budget on the military sector than any other Western nation.
It is also has military bases throughout the world and is militarily active in many conflict zones.
So I meant to say that the USA's vast capitalistic productive powers are geared towards a militarisation of the globe under its hegemony.
The term often used for this is 'military-industrial complex'.
This may be an errant reading of events, though.
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