I agree with most of that except "there is now more freedom and democracy in this world than at any point in history". Currently on a global scale we have the highest wealth inequality in economic history, more than half of the earth's population is basically poor and most of the earth's wealth is held by a small minority of very wealthy people. There is nothing democratic about that, the wealthy run this world and control the governments of many countries.

All you have to do is follow the money, the US military industrial complex is all about money, the corporations who get pieces of that $600 billion the DoD gets every year don't care about who buys their weapons of war, that is why the US government sells their weapons to foreign countries all the time. They do not care about peace because war = $$$.

They have created an economy of perpetual warfare and in order for them to be able to keep spending $600 billion per year, the weapons/equipment have to continue being used somewhere...