⚡💬 ARCHIVE - Julian Assange (2011): "The goal is to use Afghanistan to wash money out of the tax bases of the US & Europe through Afghanistan & back into the hands of a transnational security elite. The goal is an endless war, not a successful war"
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The mechanism isn't malice — it's incentive structure. When the payoff for winning is smaller than the payoff for continuing, rational actors extend the conflict. Defense contractors, regional brokers, and intelligence agencies extract value from the process, not the outcome. The war sustains the machine. The machine sustains the war.
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