00:00A single American fighter jet program will cost taxpayers over $1.7 trillion.
00:05That is more than the entire gross domestic product of Australia.
00:11How does one airplane program cost an entire continent's economy?
00:15The answer lies in federal cost plus procurement contracts.
00:19The Pentagon guarantees to reimburse every single development expense
00:23while adding a guaranteed profit margin on top.
00:26If a contractor delays a design or burns extra billions,
00:29their absolute dollar profit expands.
00:32Failure is mathematically rewarded.
00:35To ensure Congress never cancels the project,
00:38Parcher deliberately manufactured across 45 different states.
00:42Voting to cut funding means destroying local factory jobs
00:45in a lawmaker's home district, making defense cuts political suicide.
00:49We broke down the entire 60-minute war economy masterclass
00:53in our pinned breakdown below.
00:55Click the link right now to understand how global capital actually moves.
00:59Or keep scrolling and stay blind to the machine.
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