by St. Funogas, Survival Blog:
(Continued from Part 2.)
The current war in Ukraine is a prime example of how the system works for large corporations without providing a single benefit for We the People.
After the Soviet Union collapsed in late 1991, Russia asked to join NATO. Even though having Russia as a NATO partner would have been the best possible arrangement for the citizens of the US, European Union, and Russia, the US, needing enemies in order to keep justifying obscene defense budgets, dictated “no”.
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In 2014, the US orchestrated the overthrow of Ukraine’s freely-elected government to install an anti-Russian president, then contrary to all the agreements and treaties we signed with Russia, invited Ukraine to join NATO so the US could put missiles right on Russia’s border, 275 miles from Moscow. After successfully inciting Russia to attack Ukraine, the military industrial complex (MIC) got richer selling arms to Uncle Sam who gave them to Ukraine. Congress added the cost to the national debt. US lackey Boris Johnson went to Kiev two months into the war to talk Zelensky, who knew Ukraine didn’t have a prayer of winning against Russia, out of negotiating a truce. The MIC made three more years of obscene profits, all paid for by Congress’s deficit spending. At some point, the war will end, as Trump has promised. But We the People will have gained nothing but more debt. Ukraine will have gained nothing, lost much of their infrastructure, and the majority of the 1,000,000+ dead and wounded were Ukrainian. The political leadership doesn’t care about the human losses on either side, the US-led NATO-stan proclaimed they were willing to fight Russia down to the last Ukrainian.
At war’s end, BlackRock, (another large US corporation who owns Congress) will go in and make obscene profits cleaning up the mess and rebuilding infrastructure. Congress will “loan” this money to Ukraine but it actually goes straight into BlackRock’s coffers before the cleanup begins. All this money will be added to Uncle Sam’s national debt. The US knows Ukraine can never repay the debt so using what’s known as “debt-trap diplomacy,” one condition of the loan is that Ukraine pledges to give up control of their resources so big American corporations can go in and extract the oil, minerals, and other resources to enrich themselves. These huge corporations in the MIC, BlackRock, Big Oil and mining companies, write large campaign-donation checks to Congressmen, give them insider info on stock trades, and promise them high-paying jobs as “consultants” after they retire from Congress. None of this benefits We the People but we’ve been propagandized to believe it does somehow so we keep sending fiscally irresponsible congressmen to Washington to save us from the boogeymen they’ve created. When they pass the next budget with 33% of the expenses put on Uncle Sam’s card, we gripe like hell wondering how they can be so fiscally irresponsible, but then in the next election, send them back to Washington to screw us all over again.
With Greenland: “wash, rinse, repeat.” Under the usual guise of “national security,” pay BlackRock big bucks to go in and build up infrastructure and add several new military bases. Pay the MIC to supply the bases with weapons and military hardware. Congress adds all of this, in addition to the cost of buying Greenland in the first place, to the national debt. Once the infrastructure is in place, let large corporations who bought off Congress go in and extract all the oil, minerals, and rare earths. Nobody is asking what benefit We the People are gaining from it all other than more debt and closer to the financial waterfall. But hey, how cool is it that we bought Greenland?!
The MIC made 20 years of profits from the Afghanistan war. The mightiest military in the history of the universe was unable to conquer an Afghan army made up of a bunch of boys with BB guns riding ponies. Why did we still lose the war after 20 years? Because Congress didn’t want to win the war, their MIC buddies needed the money and Congressmen Smith, Jones, and Rutherford wanted the “consulting” jobs after they left congress. We left millions of dollars of military equipment behind so the MIC could make a zillion more dollars selling new stuff to the US Department of Defense to replace it all.
Nobody asked why we and our children and grandchildren gained from the $2 trillion we spent there. When we were runt of Afghanistan, that $2 trillion amounted to 7.4% of our national debt at the time! That 7.4% should be a “holy cr*p!” number but everyone ignores it in the nebulous name of “national security.”
We. the taxpayers. almost never ask ourselves how any of the money, and not just defense spending, spent by Congress benefits us. That should be our most important question but we fail to even wonder, let alone ask the question. Again, we don’t have fiscally irresponsible congressmen, only fiscally irresponsible voters.
It should be plainly clear why the defense budget is almost a trillion dollars. It should be plain that there’s no way to justify 800+ military bases. It should be plain that the world would be a better place and the US would be more secure if Russia were our friend like they want to be, instead of making them our enemy. Aside from these obvious reasons, there’s still no reason to deficit spend $1 trillion dollars every year in the name of national security.
But propaganda is a powerful thing.
