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"In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist."

https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/president-dwigh...

> Can someone genuinely explain why we keep starting wars in middle-east?

This is not an explanation, but avoid wars isn't as easy as it might appear to be.

The USA did put a lot of thought and planning into avoiding being embroiled in a middle-east war. It looked like that thought and planning was working, and then ...

https://theconversation.com/trumps-first-term-lies-at-the-he...

I don't for a second believe that current US administration wanted this war. But it would have taken skill and finesse to avoid it, not slogans and populism.

Israel wants it, and Congress is whipped. It's been like that for a while now.

I think there are entire books written on this subject. Oil, Israel, shipping passage, Christian nationalism, and communism. The USA has been fighting wars in the middle east since the marines landed on a beach in Beirut in 1958.