Private corporations own this country and everything in it including our military. They are the shadow government, and have been for a long time.
The military-industrial complex that Ike warned us against.
What is amazing is that any discussion of this brings out the FR cavemen who think everything unknown is an outer-space alien.;-)
Yep we made a deal with the devil to meet WW2 war material demands for the Allies and devil has had the wheel ever since. MIC and technocrats.