Pentagon: US Empire 'Collapsing,' So Give Us More Money 

The smartest military man in the world has just spoken

“The greatest purveyor of violence in the world : My own Government, I can not be Silent.” ― Martin Luther King Jr.

Aaron Mate: World Class Journalist! All of your work sets the bar for journalism.

"I am convinced that there are more threats to American liberty within the 10 mile radius of my office on Capitol Hill than there are on the rest of the globe." -- Ron Paul

We spend more that 54% of our taxes in the military industrial complex.

More from Mr. Wilkerson. Please.

Imagine how we could upgrade our crumbling 1950s and 60s infrastructure and help people in need.

Just so you know, this old Norweagin, nato soldier, that was pro nato, pro USA, USA gone nuts, me and many with me will fight with the russians. USA gone nuts.

This colonel is by far the only person within the US military institution that I can show respect for...

The biggest empire in history with global economic hegemony doesn't simply collapse, it explodes... :( BTW Wilkerson is a great guest.

Excellent interview!

I gave this a thumbs up just for the title.

col. Lawrence Wilkerson, a true human being, thanks! Greetings from Europe.

"Counting the Israeli slush fund budget"???

Another awesome guest. Really can't overstate how much I love TRN. Frigging awesome show guys. Amazing.

Very wise guest.

Excellent analysis.

Wilkerson is right we have lost approximately $40 Trillion dollars out of the Pentagon but they cannot find the money. Look at Catherine Austin Fitts and her take on the Break Away Society.

It amazes me how most people simply can't admit how dark America is.

Can we talk about this badass thumbnail tho

The Bleeding Elephant in the room is the NSA/Metadata/police state budget. Kill it and there is more than enough to go around.

Very good interview, flush out all Mr. Wilkerson wants to say. Glad I watch this video.

Debt doesn't matter when you have the biggest guns and when your currency underpins the world economy. Like paper gold, it'll be an issue only when we go full-on Mad Max, at which point we'll have bigger problems. This also applies to -clients- close allies of the US like Japan, whose debt is effectively underwritten by the US. I'd have thought Wilkerson was aware of this. Oddly enough, the DoD sounds a lot like the Music Industry when Napster became a thing. Not surprising that it responds in the same way. Can't let the terrorists win, oh no!

Help! We, the USA, are being held hostage by a parasitic military-industrial complex. Save us.

I like Aaron , and I bet he's chuffed to bits when Col Wilkerson now say's "Thanks Aaron " and not just "Thanks for having me"

been saying this for years what a fucking disaster. and the financial problems on the horizon are almost incomprehensible in scope. so get ready

Betting on the wrong horse of War and fear, a lame horse. Time to invest in peoples instead of vicious-cercle money. Stupidity is a bad excuse, your guns won't help.

I need to move out of the US.

Really interesting interview and a very eloquent speaker

The US military budget should be reduced by 80 %. That would still be more than Russia spends. Of the 696 billion, more than 60 % of it is wasted and stolen. Contractors who bid low, are ignored in favor of hyper inflated contracts.

Eisenhower also wrote the "Military Industrial Complex Speech"...He understood the military and industry but sadly stood witness to and aided in the pernicious expanse of what would be the CIA and other clandestine military attaches that further created many of the issues for the increase of the Military Industrial Complex...a point Col Wilkerson does not or rarely ever introduces. But in the overall, he's on point and it just goes to show how fundamentally we're fucked up and really making fairly poor choices for the long run.

A special thank you again to Mr. Wilkerson. If Mr. Wilkerson could please get this message? What part does big Pharmaceutical/ Lexapro Nation play in the big picture! Why is it that everyone must be on Anti-depressant? A little clue-read 1984.

Great content as always

Why you didn't think this way when you attack Iraq on 2003 or say anything to your boss Colin Powell who lied at in about wmd

Col. Wilkerson is a fantastic voice of reason. Damn, wish he was the POTUS.

NO! No more money for bullying rampages.

27 Trillion missing from DOD. 20 Trillion Dept. Net windfall 7 Trillion. Clean up the swamp and corruption in government.

I strongly object to superimposing Trumps' face over the image of the Medal of Honor!

Greed is a monster that eats those who are ignorant of consequence.

We must spend as much as necessary to protect the US, and not one penny more.

Its logical to expect increases in military spending to be used to control and enforce the supply of diminishing global resources because it is virtually impossible to reduce demand for resources with current rates of global population growth.

That was, par NONE the MOST Smart, Informative, WOW...WOW...WOW This man should be talking about this very issue on EVERY SINGLE UTUBE CHANNEL, right or left leaning.. I will never forget his message....NEVER. Respectfully, Scott Padgett

Can the Col. speak to Congress, Budget Committee before they vote on these allocations? Col. Wilkerson---Would you please run for President on either Red or Green ticket, or even as an Independent!

All respect to Wilkerson but he's full of it.

The definition of Psychopath is, a personality disorder characterized by impaired empathy and remorse with bold, disinhibited and egotistical traits, considered synonymous with sociopath. I believe this definition accurately describes a lot of the people that control the world today. These people worship the idea that the individual has the freedom to do whatever they choose, that everything must be done to enhance self, selfishness is good and greed is great, they have impaired empathy. I believe the Economic Royalist of the world received the same report as the Pentagon and they just like the military are trying to extract as much of the wealth from the world for as long as they can. Just as your guest stated this is a zero sum game, the military is getting a large portion of the world’s economy. China is tired of subsidizing it, the Saudi’s are going bankrupt subsidizing it and an aging American population will not give up any more of their Social Security to support it. The Economic Royalist are in the same position, there is no more pie to slice, five people own as much wealth as the bottom 3.5 billion people on the planet, earlier this year it was eight, last year it was sixteen and the year before that sixty two. People are buying the things they need including food from the Dollar Store just to survive. The Military and the Royalist have painted themselves into a corner and they have no way out. The “I’ve done it before I will do it again” threat our military has been using doesn’t quite cut it now. Certain nations seem to be saying “we’re calling your bluff, if you are feeling Froggy then leap”. The Royalist are in a similar position, countries are bankrupt, people are starving and yet they want more, they’ve loaned out money and they want it all back with interest. Their behavior has the planet so far out of balance I can’t see a habitable planet for complex life in ten years from now (actually I think it’s more like two or three years but I will play nice today). The thing is, the military is not an independent entity, they are the law enforcement for the Royalist. China, Russia, Iran, and Germany are threats to the Royalist because they don’t fully prescribe to the service to self model. They understand the concept of the collective. China and Germany are trade powerhouses because they operate as a collective with their citizens. Putin is hated because he’s a Nationalist; his actions are based on the collective will of the citizens of Russia. In science if your hypothesis is wrong no matter how much the conclusion affirms what you want to believe, it will be wrong. The Global Economic Royalist realize things are slipping away from them. They are giving as much as they can to the Military to create a World Military State. Our country now openly support Governments that engage in Genocide and we are locking up people that descent. This is a zero sum game though, our hypothesis is wrong, we are not separate individuals on this planet, we are part of a collective of varied expressions of life and we’ve got to get rid of the psychopathic thinking if we are going to survive on this planet. Tag we are all it.

How do you say G R E E D!!!!

This is why we've seen the consolidation and offshoring of wealth in the USA by the private sector. Maybe the DoD will be able to redistribute wealth now.

OMG!! CANT WE JUST PUT THIS GUY IN AS PRESIDENT!?!?! WHY NOT!?!?! come oN!

Doesn't everything have a limited shelf life?

in history, mis-management of empires will fall.

The fact that the DoD is not allowed to be audited (the last time it was showed 250b of waste and was swept under the rug) is undemocratic and should be exposed constantly. The fact that this program has 3000 views, even though it is one of the few media outlets that actually reports the truth makes me very pessimistic about the prospects of us actually addressing this issue before it bankrupts the country.

Too much money going into the FORCES!!!

This guy needs to explain 'Anti Fascism and Anti-fascism accessories' to the rubes!

Whenever, if ever, is "capitalism" going to jumpstart the workforce of the USA and get it "beavering" as the colonel says?

This document is so full of fuzzy language that I would need a separate dictionary to read it.

Diplomacy will improve our status in the world. Creating good will, and using some cunning strategy would be more cost effective and intelligent. We have a president and military that wants to smash everything it is stupid, and it will bring about the downfall.

Expecting that you can talk reasonably with North Korea is far too idealistic, its like expecting that Trump can listen to something he doesn't understand or believe in. Mutually Assured Destruction is rearing its head again as the main deterrent - and it was effective in a mad sort of way in the 1960s and until Gorbachev arrived, though the USA then double crossed him on his fine ideals and peaceful offerings.

See Even at the Doors, The Two Kingdoms

People like this keep going on and on about how the American tax payer pays for all this military spending. This is how you know it's false.

THIS MAN FOR PRESIDENT.. OF THE UNIVERSE!!!

If the empire collapses, were screwed

it must be the national debts of developed economies on fire

I dont want America to collapse, or be an empire.. But by being an empire will cause a collapse, it seems either way were screwed

R.I.P. Adam West is Dead!!! 1928-2017

The story of the giant and the stone thrower. if you think you are great, so you are, until you find out it's is all in your own mind, when you fall, and there's no one to lend you a hand. Money just don't grows on trees. we have to sweat to earned.

Actually the military is also a supporter of the oil industries as a large part of their operating budget is spent in keeping their planes tanks ships and other vehicles supplied with oil products. That is why we keep invading for oil.

more sun tse than Clausewitz - smart guy this general......

"5000 years of human history"?

Missing??...unaccounted?

usa owes more money than there is money in the world... us money is world reserve money...

Good points. Also there are people in the military and many vets who agree we are over-extended. The military knows this, and the dispersion of power to such degree violates all rules of modern, conventional war. If we concentrated our forces, we could project 500,000 to 1,000,,000 troops. Our military has 1.400,000 standard soldiers, and 800,000 in reserve. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Armed_Forces Plus 140,000 civilians in the US military proper. In Iraq and Afghanistan we strained and went into recession sending roughly 150,000 people. The difference between those numbers is staggering. It would mean the difference between utterly demolishing enemy forces in weeks vs. not being able to for decades. We are so spread thin, that we cannot project even 1/20th of our strength during a real war. Also keep in mind the logistics would be easier - since our forces would be in one space instead of spread all over the world. Also, with the money saved, the increased efficiency, the money pumped back into our economy by soldiers spending money here instead of over-seas (money that can be used for jobs by increasing aggregate demand), these soldiers would be better trained, they would have superior technology, superior strategies/tactics due to increased joint training and unit coherence, and superior morale. Neither ISIS nor North Korea could even stand a chance of facing US forces that concentrated. You would see a night and day development on how effectively we win wars and put down insurgencies/guerilla forces. We'd go from being outnumbered or parity, to outnumbering them 5 or 8 to one.

Bully US need to step down

They already sent a train load of goods by train from China to London U.K

the u.s govt. should be relegated to an app on play store

Lol, US has an empire? What world is that in?

awesome!😫 the people are asking for the destruction without realizing it!!!😕

Need to look after you're country internally firstly.....Too much money on War ...So all this money is unaccounted for?trillions?

It's appalling that Americans prefer CNN and FOXNews over truly informative content like this. But then that's by design, isn't it? And ultimately isn't it part of the same problem discussed here?

Powell a great thinker with limited power.

Is there too much going into the Force's??

Empire is only somewhat beneficial to working people of that Empire when it's in its ascendancy. This is true of the Roman, Portuguese, Spanish, Dutch, Swedish, English, British and French Empires and it is certainly true of the American Empire today. The Romans (to whom the Americans always like to compare themselves) only ever had a system of comparative wealth to the ordinary Citizen in the 2nd Century A.D. When borders had been established and the world conquered (just as it has been to the Americans today) the Empire was only ever profitable to the wealthy few. Only the upper class, just as only the capitalist class today, stood anything to gain from the perpetual wars it fought. Ordinary people were expected to bear the burden and they started to refuse. At the turn of the 19th Century, Swedes were arguably only glad to see their Empire go. After the Second World War, the British people elected a Labour government to replace Churchill's Conservatives, weary of war as they were, and eager for social reform. It is now up to the American people to act, as act they must, if they are to bring about the peaceful transformation of their country into a more peaceful and humane society, free of the evils of capitalism and greed. The only route forward is to elect Senator Sanders President in 2020. If that if not done, if the End of Empire is not brought about by peaceful means, it may well herald not only the end of civilisation, but the end of humanity and almost all life on Earth in the fires of the nuclear holocaust brought about by insane minds of a capitalist class of slobbering profit machines, ever hungry for the additional hundred billion dollars to add to their over-swollen money coffers. But even inside the halls and mansions of the super wealthy, there is room for hope, there is room for a glimmer of future on which reassuring thought may rest. I am told that not all of the sons and daughters of these kleptarchs share their parents insatiable greed and love for things material. It would seem that affluence breeds a germ of socialistic though on which the basis of future society may partly rest. Almost all of the Great Revolutionnaries of Old came from the upper and middle classes, Percles, the Gracchi, Caesar, Marx, Engels, Lenin and Fidel, all came from the ranks of the wealthy and the middle class. There must be realisation in the richer ranks of society that there is more to life than the endless amassing of wealth and consumer goods. That is one of the few hopes to come out of the beginning of the 21st Century.

don't forget Iraq and Libya what happen to them after they gave up nuke aspirations

Big fan of the channel, love your work, but please don't buy into the debt hype. Neither deficit spending and, yes, debt are nowhere near as bad as people make it out to be. Modern monetary theory>>>

Read "Behold a Pale Horse" by William Cooper

Build the wall President Trump,fulfill your promises to your supporters,no amnesty,no to birthright citizenship

"Can't have your military very long if you can't pay for it" ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-nf6vg4Chwfw.htmlm56s ...Too funny.

perfect,worked out just fine with Islam as opponent you get every one on board.

Why doesn't Wilkerson ever say that US empire is an "evil regime"? Some of Wilkerson's commentary is beneficial, but he still comes from an imperialist position. Not good.

"God" help the US just as he always does lol. with a prison population a on a par with Saudi Arabia only.

Trump is creeping me out

Lockheed moves to China in 10 years.

how we are going to pay for Miami vacation 10000 a night steal some

Who had it before the Indians?

Bird brain (sorry birds)

Trump will Make America Great [cough,cough]

R.I.P. Bernie Sanders is Dead!!! 1941-2017