by Ron Paul
“Warfare is a racket, wrote US Maj. Basic Smedley Butler in 1935. He defined: “A racket is finest described, I consider, as one thing that’s not what it appears to the vast majority of the individuals. Solely a small ‘inside’ group is aware of what it’s about. It’s performed for the advantage of the only a few, on the expense of the very many. Out of warfare just a few individuals make big fortunes.”
Gen. Butler’s commentary describes the US/NATO response to the Ukraine warfare completely.
The propaganda continues to painting the warfare in Ukraine as that of an unprovoked Goliath out to decimate an harmless David until we within the US and NATO contribute huge quantities of army gear to Ukraine to defeat Russia. As is at all times the case with propaganda, this model of occasions is manipulated to convey an emotional response to the advantage of particular pursuits.
One group of particular pursuits profiting massively on the warfare is the US military-industrial advanced. Raytheon CEO Greg Hayes lately informed a gathering of shareholders that, “The whole lot that ‘s being shipped into Ukraine at present, in fact, is popping out of stockpiles, both at DOD or from our NATO allies, and that’s all nice information. Ultimately we’ll must replenish it and we’ll see a profit to the enterprise.”
He wasn’t mendacity. Raytheon, together with Lockheed Martin and numerous different weapons producers are having fun with a windfall they haven’t seen in years. The US has dedicated greater than three billion {dollars} in army help to Ukraine. They name it help, however it’s truly company welfare: Washington sending billions to arms producers for weapons despatched abroad.
By many accounts these shipments of weapons just like the Javelin anti-tank missile (collectively manufactured by Raytheon and Lockheed Martin) are getting blown up as quickly as they arrive in Ukraine. This doesn’t trouble Raytheon in any respect. The extra weapons blown up by Russia in Ukraine, the extra new orders come from the Pentagon.
Former Warsaw Pact nations now members of NATO are in on the rip-off as nicely. They’ve found tips on how to eliminate their 30-year-old Soviet-made weapons and obtain trendy replacements from the US and different western NATO nations.
Whereas many who sympathize with Ukraine are cheering, this multi-billion greenback weapons bundle will make little distinction. As former US Marine intelligence officer Scott Ritter mentioned on the Ron Paul Liberty Report final week, “I can say with absolute certainty that even when this help makes it to the battlefield, it’ll have zero affect on the battle. And Joe Biden is aware of it.”
What we do see is that Russians are capturing trendy US and NATO weapons by the ton and even utilizing them to kill extra Ukrainians. What irony. Additionally, what sorts of alternatives shall be supplied to terrorists, with hundreds of tons of lethal high-tech weapons floating round Europe? Washington has admitted that it has no approach of monitoring the weapons it’s sending to Ukraine and no solution to hold them out of the arms of the unhealthy guys.
Warfare is a racket, to make sure. The US has been meddling in Ukraine for the reason that finish of the Chilly Warfare, going as far as overthrowing the federal government in 2014 and planting the seeds of the warfare we’re witnessing at present. The one approach out of a gap is to cease digging. Don’t count on that any time quickly. Warfare is simply too worthwhile.
