Posted on 04/26/2022 6:59:28 PM PDT by delta7
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.
Of course, those of you that suck down the western MSM and think giving almost one third of our Javelins and one quarter of our Stinger inventories is a good thing, you are fools….hint: best estimate by DOD is a two year replacement schedule to replace them.
Look at the bright side. The defense conglomerates aren’t “sin stocks” anymore.
So, Rand Paul is pro-war?
>> So, Rand Paul is pro-war?
help me out with the implication
He supports war, says war is good.
There are, indeed, a ton of war profiteers out there.
Lots of people playing on emotions, too.
Just like any bad situation. Bad people never let bad situations go to waist. It could be simple Harlem looters who use a blackout to cause crime. It could be pharmaceutical companies taking advantage of a pandemic, natural or unnatural. It could be politicians. Or gun runners. Or drug dealers.
That said, the existence of scum bags seeking profit doesn’t lessen the fact there is a problem.
Here, there is a problem. Russia invaded Ukraine unprovoked. Russia had no interest in the Ukraine until massive oil and gas reserves were discovered in the Ukraine. These reserves poised a direct threat to Russia’s only export of value.
That’s it.
Russia is a bad actor. Yes, there are bad people seeking to rob, steal, rape, and pillage as a result. That doesn’t lessen the fact Russia is a bad actor.
*waste
Smedley Butler was right, almost 100 years ago.
Raytheon and Lockheed Martin are doing rather well
It’s in my bookcase.
So says Ron Paul, who’s always been a crackpot?
Well, allrighty then.
we are the patsy’s
Putin playing right into the hands of globalists? /s
Unwilling patsies.
Outstanding rebuttal of the issues discussed.
99% of folks on this board are clueless
we have no dog in this fight.
I will say that him and the Chinese have picked the perfect time to mess with the world and upset the globalists plan for a great reset. If there is going to be a reset then it will be on the Communist terms and our lack of leadership will be what lets it happen.
China unleashed the global pandemic the likes of which hasn’t been seen in 100 years and nobody blinked an eye. Russia has declared war on their neighbor when is wreaking havoc and threatening all of NATO yet the world is still buying his oil.
Americans are being robbed blind to pay people to invade our country and break our laws.
Our problems will continue for as long as people deny reality and pretend that these problems don’t exist.
I feel like the only adult at the puppet show when I read the news.
Russia was not “unprovoked”.
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