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I wonder if this relates heavily to the Wall Street- and MBA-izatoin of Silicon Valley? It's just plain as day that building weapons is a really good business opportunity... so it isn't super surprising that as the companies become more practical and finance focused they'd get into this.

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It's related to the Ukraine war (and the advance of China's military) showing that the US has work to do to update their military capabilities for future conflicts. Hard to see how the US could achieve this without involving SV.

That's the pretext, yes.

Please do elaborate.

Generally you sell the public on weapons for foreign enemies and then they get used on domestic enemies after that. Surveillance tech and drones have plentiful police use cases for instance

Judging by this thread people aren't interested in any kind of serious discussion of the geopolitical reasons for this. They just want to make childish remarks about the "military-industrial complex" and spout tinfoil hat conspiracy theories.

There is exactly one remark about the military-industrial complex in this thread. It simply alludes to the historical fact that Eisenhower, who spent much of his adult life engaging with it, was wary of it. Why do you see this as childish?

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