“Pray for the Military Industrial Complex”
The funny thing is that I think you are right. While I would root for Ukraine in this war, if it weren’t for what I perceive as the US national interest I wouldn’t be happy to see our money (or mostly old military equipment) being given away.
I don’t think even Eisenhower opposed the Military Industrial Complex itself. Instead I think he was warning us that that combination was becoming so powerful that it was starting to be primarily interested in its self interest instead of the US national interest.
I remember in the novel series “The Winds of War” where the German general was telling “Pug” Henry that the US Lend Lease program was just allowing the US to rearm while sending early models to be battle tested. Something similar is happening with the current US aid packages. Most of the money is being spent replacing old US weapons with the newest weaponry that the US keeps and with increasing the arms production capability in the US.
Have you seen the Perun videos on YouTube? If you haven’t and if you are interested in such things I’d highly recommend them.