Which U.S. President expanded the military industrial complex the most?

Which U.S. President expanded the military industrial complex the most?

  • Franklin D. Roosevelt

    Votes: 9 12.9%
  • Harry S. Truman

    Votes: 5 7.1%
  • Dwight D. Eisenhower

    Votes: 8 11.4%
  • John F. Kennedy

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Lyndon B. Johnson

    Votes: 1 1.4%
  • Richard Nixon

    Votes: 1 1.4%
  • Gerald Ford

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Jimmy Carter

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Ronald Reagan

    Votes: 17 24.3%
  • George H. W. Bush

    Votes: 3 4.3%
  • Bill Clinton

    Votes: 2 2.9%
  • George W. Bush

    Votes: 20 28.6%
  • Barack Obama

    Votes: 2 2.9%
  • Donald Trump

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • All of them equally

    Votes: 2 2.9%

  • Total voters
    70

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Either Reagan or W. Bush.

The expansion of the M.I.C. is a complex topic because there are a lot of non-US elements that are tied to it.

Most tech programs and nearly all academic engineering programs are tied to the MIC. SpaceX and AT&T are a part of the MIC.

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Reagan. The Cold War ended and the Soviet collapse because he basically out spent them(that and the Afghan war) Plus he was the first but talking about missile defense and a fighting force in space.(something this current idiot president put in to fruition by making it another branch of the military) Bush and his neocons were just outright blatant with it in terms of cronyism and corruption
 

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Technically FDR in my opinion because once he used the war as an excuse to run for a third and fourth term it was on him. He knew he was dying when he ran the fourth time and replaced his VP. When he died Truman didn’t know about the Manhattan project . FDR gave Hoover unchecked power in the FBI. Truman started the CIA. FDR wanted to get into War World II so bad he was provoking the axis powers while playing both sides. He had American companies stop what they were doing to make weapons with most of the male workforce at war it was a lot of women working these jobs. Women were able to make their own money. When there are people making money they spend money so that fed into the system more. He was also aware of Pearl Harbor. The Second World War was the reason for so much moving forward because every thing became a proxy war against communists down the road the issues in the Middle East.

The president after Truman was almost always going to be Eisenhower regardless of party that even Truman himself offered to be his Vice President (The term limits didn’t apply to Truman) and he only ran as a Republican after being put on so many ballots that he won primaries and to give support to NATO. He was the most down the middle president of the modern era. As a man who was the was the supreme general of the allied forces in Europe you would think he would want to increase war but no. When there was secret coups headed by the FBI and CIA Leading to the Korean War he ended the war quickly by getting a peace treaty with China. In his last address as President he literally said the words military industrial complex.

JFK was only President 1,036 days. He was inaugurated January 20TH 1961 at 1 PM and pronounced dead November 22nd 1963 at 1 PM. We know of two major stories where War was almost guaranteed the Bay of Pigs where Kennedy found out late about the secret plan to plan to bring Cubans to Cuba to get more Cubans to start a revolt that would kill Castro and fly them out while also dropping bombs from above and the other was the Cuban Missile crisis where Russia had nuclear submarine missiles in the Caribbean where if it wasn’t for guys underwater on both sides having amazing temperates we would all be dead. Some people were out in Dallas that day and they would be famous in the next decade at a hotel called Watergate. JFK had a phone that gave him direct access to the leader in Russia. Johnson became president there was another War.

From 1964 to 1970 important leaders like RFK, Malcolm, and Martin were gunned down in suspicious ways that today we don’t have the truth. On the one year anniversary of RFK’s death Ted Kennedy had a party in Chappaquiddikk with people that worked on RFK’s campaign the night ended with a car in a lake with a dead woman.

Before the world knew Nixion had a guy out there giving him information. Doctors said the woman in the car got caught in what was called an air bubble and was able to be saved for about nine hours. No autopsy was done and no exhumation was done either. Nixon won re-election in a landslide and was the first president to visit China the biggest communist country in the world with an increasing population. Same Nixon who almost twenty years earlier had the kitchen debate with Khrushchev. Nixon got us off the gold standard and it changed money overnight if you read old books a big nice meal was like 15 cents today the same meal is a couple hundred.


Ford becomes President because the VP before was in a scandal at the same time Watergate blew up. Jimmy Carter wins but issues out in the Middle East keep popping up. The USA was trying to make a Vietnam War situation for the Soviets with the Muslims by giving them weapons and training. They also fed into generational issues of lands and countries out there. Israel came to be from land that was stolen. A lot of countries came to be from civil wars where they fought people who were the same as them because of the military industrial complex.

Reagan gets a deal done that will release kidnap victims past a deadline against Carter. Reagan had the Iran-contra where they was a cycle of money, weapons, and drugs circulating from Iran to South America up to us putting CRACK into our communities.


Reagan’s VP Bush was a former director of the CIA and rich guy from oil companies. He basically became a third term for Regan. The 1992 election happens Clinton wins this election had a weird third party thing. Clinton had a chance to get Osama. Clinton wins re-election but the sex scandals hide the great work he did like getting rid of the deficit.

The 2000 election was decided on education, the budget, and taxes not foreign policy that would literally blow up the next year putting us in the world we would come to live in. Gore won Florida but it was stolen some how this election was really close. The people vote on the first Tuesday of November after the first Monday on election years but the electoral college votes in December this is the real election. Florida was a state with Bush’s brother as Governor and a campaign manager and family friend as head of a state voting program in Florida. Gore took them to court it went up to the Supreme Court. They tried very hard to not recount votes. 9/11 happens and a lot of the people Bush picked as his team were guys his own father not to associate with because they were blood thirsty. These vampires created multiple vacuums of power in the Middle East.

2004 was another close election where Ohio was stolen. People went to jail.These guys got their start after Nixon was purged out of DC. Obama won twice no need to discuss. Trump wins after losing the popular vote by three million. From FDR a majority of the presidents weren’t elected by the people, elections were too too close, and each side had their own re radicalizations. FDR

Dope post! Any books that cover this post you made?
 

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Thought it was dwight eisenhower? Or was he the one who predicted the danger of it
i think it expanded the most under eisenhower even though he warned about it.
Eisenhower. military spending exploded under his presidency. ironic because he warned against it and coined the term when he was on the way out

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never really went back down after his presidency. other than that id say W Bush who took it to new heights
when eisenhower was president yearly spending went from less than 200 bilion a year to 400 billion and has never really come down from that. presidents since then have brought it up even more but that was when this level of spending became the status quo
 

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Reagan. The Cold War ended and the Soviet collapse because he basically out spent them(that and the Afghan war) Plus he was the first but talking about missile defense and a fighting force in space.(something this current idiot president put in to fruition by making it another branch of the military) Bush and his neocons were just outright blatant with it in terms of cronyism and corruption
The bolded isn't true. It would make zero sense strategically for the Soviets to spend past their limits just to show up the USA when the Soviets in the 1980s had zero desire to ever engage the actual US military. They were even doing arms reduction deals with America at that point.

Actual bureaucrats from the USSR say that overspending came from internal fights with each other over money and power, same as any country, not from grand anti-American competition.

The largest factors behind the fall of the USSR were losing in Afghanistan, massive citizen movements in Poland, the Baltic states, and other regions, and its own internal unrest and incompetency.
 

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The bolded isn't true. It would make zero sense strategically for the Soviets to spend past their limits just to show up the USA when the Soviets in the 1980s had zero desire to ever engage the actual US military. They were even doing arms reduction deals with America at that point.

Actual bureaucrats from the USSR say that overspending came from internal fights with each other over money and power, same as any country, not from grand anti-American competition.

The largest factors behind the fall of the USSR were losing in Afghanistan, massive citizen movements in Poland, the Baltic states, and other regions, and its own internal unrest and incompetency.
They spent too much with their military expenditures, the U.S. had a market economy
 

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They spent too much with their military expenditures, the U.S. had a market economy
that was happening for decades and it had been a problem for decades by the time reagan got in
Era of Stagnation - Wikipedia
reagan being president in the 80s and increasing military spending wasn't a cause of soviet collapse. it was just coincidental timing and because he was so anti-communist and happened to be president while Gorbachev started reforms that eventually resulted in the USSR's breakup, its gone down in history that way
 

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had a party in Chappaquiddikk with people that worked on RFK’s campaign the night ended with a car in a lake with a dead woman.

Before the world knew Nixion had a guy out there giving him information. Doctors said the woman in the car got caught in what was called an air bubble and was able to be saved for about nine hours. No autopsy was done and no exhumation was done either. Nixon won re-election in a landslide and was the first president to visit China the biggest communist country in the world with an increasing population. Same Nixon who almost twenty years earlier had the kitchen debate with Khrushchev. Nixon got us off the gold standard and it changed money overnight if you read old books a big nice meal was like 15 cents today the same meal is a couple hundred.

nixon was on some goon shyt

didn't he tell the viet congs or whoever the fukk not to do a peace deal and basically committed treason to make lbj look bad
 
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