Posted on 04/26/2022 8:22:32 AM PDT by RandFan
“War is a racket, wrote US Maj. General Smedley Butler in 1935. He explained: “A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people. Only a small ‘inside’ group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many. Out of war a few people make huge fortunes.”
Gen. Butler’s observation describes the US/NATO response to the Ukraine war perfectly.
The propaganda continues to portray the war in Ukraine as that of an unprovoked Goliath out to decimate an innocent David unless we in the US and NATO contribute massive amounts of military equipment to Ukraine to defeat Russia. As is always the case with propaganda, this version of events is manipulated to bring an emotional response to the benefit of special interests.
One group of special interests profiting massively on the war is the US military-industrial complex. Raytheon CEO Greg Hayes recently told a meeting of shareholders that, “Everything that ‘s being shipped into Ukraine today, of course, is coming out of stockpiles, either at DOD or from our NATO allies, and that’s all great news. Eventually we’ll have to replenish it and we will see a benefit to the business.”
He wasn’t lying. Raytheon, along with Lockheed Martin and countless other weapons manufacturers are enjoying a windfall they have not seen in years. The US has committed more than three billion dollars in military aid to Ukraine. They call it aid, but it is actually corporate welfare: Washington sending billions to arms manufacturers for weapons sent overseas.
By many accounts these shipments of weapons like the Javelin anti-tank missile (jointly manufactured by Raytheon and Lockheed Martin) are getting blown up as soon as they arrive in Ukraine. This doesn’t bother Raytheon at all. The more weapons blown up by Russia in Ukraine, the more new orders come from the Pentagon.
Former Warsaw Pact countries now members of NATO are in on the scam as well. They’ve discovered how to dispose of their 30-year-old Soviet-made weapons and receive modern replacements from the US and other western NATO countries.
While many who sympathize with Ukraine are cheering, this multi-billion dollar weapons package will make little difference. As former US Marine intelligence officer Scott Ritter said on the Ron Paul Liberty Report last week, “I can say with absolute certainty that even if this aid makes it to the battlefield, it will have zero impact on the battle. And Joe Biden knows it.”
What we do see is that Russians are capturing modern US and NATO weapons by the ton and even using them to kill more Ukrainians. What irony. Also, what kinds of opportunities will be provided to terrorists, with thousands of tons of deadly high-tech weapons floating around Europe? Washington has admitted that it has no way of tracking the weapons it is sending to Ukraine and no way to keep them out of the hands of the bad guys.
War is a racket, to be sure. The US has been meddling in Ukraine since the end of the Cold War, going so far as overthrowing the government in 2014 and planting the seeds of the war we are witnessing today. The only way out of a hole is to stop digging. Don’t expect that any time soon. War is too profitable.
Very good post. Thanks. I’m seriously considering joining the Libertarian Party. Rs have proven to be as bad as Ds on endless wars.
I’ve called my rep and senators again and again, saying
“Stop! We’re broke! 30 TRILLION in debt, our own border is being over run, inflation at record highs, looming food shortages, crazy gas prices, and you are sending billions of deficit money to friken Ukraine???? Are you nuts? Get us OUT of NATO, and stop the idiotic proxy wars!!!”
Deaf ears.
“He could have also talked about how the government in Ukraine broke the Minsk agreement and killed thousands of civilians in the Donbas over the last 10 years....how it is NOT a democracy having jailed or murdered political opponents and banned opposition media, etc.
There are no good guys here. This is not our fight.”
Fact check: TRUE!
you pimp around here all the time.
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Allen’s not JUST a pimp.
He will do any prog for a dollar.
. I spent 22 years in the military
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No one believes you,
about anything ,
you’ve got to know that,
but it doesn’t stop you does it.
What branch ?
Service dates ?
Ill go first
USCG
10/78-11/84
Now you ,,.,
Oh,
And band and bugle Corp doesn’t count
Watsa matter ?
Afraid of commiting stolen valor ?
US Army
Feb 71 to Mar 92.
US Army
Feb 71 to Mar 92.
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Thank you for your service.
( if you are telling the truth, which is questionable given your posts )
Your still a creep with progy ideas allen.
cuz1961 wrote: “Thank you for your service. ( if you are telling the truth, which is questionable given your posts )”
Thank you for yours (if you are telling the truth).
. ( if you are telling the truth, which is questionable given your posts )”
Thank you for yours (if you are telling the truth).
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Wow.
That’s the 2nd time today I’ve found something I can agree with
from 2 of the most disagreeful members on the board with whom I have interacted with.
Bless your heart Allen.
Kindly show me proof, or even evidence, that these "vaccines" have saved a single life.
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