President Biden just appointed the multi-billionaire heiress Penny Pritzker – Obama's chief mega-donor – to oversee the profiteering plans in Ukraine of BlackRock, JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs: to "rebuild" the country with US funds once Raytheon and Boeing are done profiteering from its destruction.
As the Ukraine war rages on and thousands of Ukranians’ lives are ruined and displaced, while Americans and Europeans endure economic harm, a select group of Americans continues profiting off the continued conflict: Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Northrop Grumman, and the rest of the military industrial complex.
@GGreenwald “I would submit you have to either be very naive or someone drowning in either hearing propaganda or disseminating it to believe that it's a gigantic coincidence that the companies who wield the most power in Washington happen to be greatly profiting from the number one policy priority of the US security state, which is the war in Ukraine.”
It must be a simple coincidence that Biden’s Secretary of Defense and steadfast supporter of the Ukraine war, Lloyd Austin, was once on Raytheon’s Board of Directors.
Biden, to his credit, did follow through on Trump’s Afghanistan withdrawal plan. But within months, the US arms industry and military-industrial complex had a brand new war that was even more profitable.
The American liberal-left, under Republican Presidents, frequently focus on the profit motive of wars. Yet now:
.@GGreenwald Do you find it odd that there's no talk about like this about the current arms industry and the war in Ukraine and all the people who used to work for those current arms industries and their positions now in the Biden administration and the possibility that maybe there is a profit motive involved in Washington and why this war is continuing with that end and there are no diplomatic efforts to try and stop it?
.@GGreenwald “Do you think if and when an Inspector General is finally permitted to examine the flow of money from the US treasurer to Kiev, they might find similar financial abuses, similar extraction and profiteering out of an obscene kind from the war in Ukraine before the reconstruction even begins? Seems possible, which is probably why so many of the people in Washington financing this war don't want that kind of oversight, and why they've repeatedly voted against it.”
@ggreenwald .@GGreenwald “Do you see what this war is about in reality, and how rarely we hear about any of it? It's all just lurking there under the surface. Everything else we hear about the war is the pretext and the propaganda. This is the actual driving force of the war.
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