Monroe Doctrine started it, but after the US invaded and possessed territories after the Spanish American war, they learned it was difficult to do that. The US became isolationist and very reluctantly entered WW1. The modern arms race started during WW2 and continued into the cold war. They started looking for more conflicts, including Korea, which got started 6 or 7 years after WW2 ended.

Right now, just like Eisenhower warned in his farewell speech, the US is run by the military industrial complex. Is this a bad thing? Well, Jeffersonian democracy is an ideal for an agrarian society. Things like the internet most likely would never have come into being without the military’s prodigious growth over the past 50 years. Whether it’s good or bad depends on what you want.

“Are you forgetting where the first computer was built? In a garage, of an average American family.

Not on some military base or something of that nature.”

I’m sorry, but you’re completely, utterly, and embarrassingly wrong. That was the first “personal” computer. Technology was not invented by Apple. For decades before that, we’ve had computers that were developed by military and scientific resources. Computers were developed coming out of world war 2 as part of the arms race for communication encryption.

And you’ve got to be kidding me if you think an agrarian agriculture is going to develop computers. All major invention since the dawn of the industrial age has been fueled by nations that led by military power and those nations that were protected by their sphere of influence. The US and USSR provided those spheres, Germany and the British Empire before that.