No, I’m not just talking about Phizer and Moderna peddling their poisons, though it’s true they continue to increase their fortunes.
This is about wars, right now, because that’s also where the big money is and the Military-Industrial Complex (M.I.C.) wants more of that big money.
We didn’t win the war in North Korea against China because it was so far from home and there was no threat to us here. China wasn’t attacking us, they were making sure we couldn’t take over the Korean peninsula and have nuclear missiles virtually on their doorstep. We ended up settling for the lower half and no nukes on it because continuing to fund it and send our young men over there to die lost all it’s public momentum.
So we took over from the French in Vietnam and the M. I. C. was making a fortune once again, but like Korea it wasn’t being fought to win, it was being fought for profit, and just went on too long. They milked it to death, politicians wanted re-election and so had to come out against further funding and we walked away with nothing.
So then we went to Afghanistan. Same thing, rinse and repeat. Why did we leave $billions worth of equipment behind? So new contracts for the M.I.C. would have to be given, to replace all of it. More profit for them.
Now we’re in Ukraine but we’re not sending troops. Why not? There can only be one reason. It’s because the Koreans didn’t have nukes, the Vietnamese didn’t have nukes and the Afghans didn’t have nukes. Russia has nukes. Worse, the Russians are mentally unstable and they keep threatening to nuke us.
Of course, they know that if they did, we along with all our nuclear armed NATO allies would turn Russia into radioactive glass, but would they do it anyway? Are they crazy enough? That’s what’s stopping us so far from sending our troops and really offensive weaponry into Ukraine.
The longer this war can be maintained with only the Ukrainian people being slaughtered, the longer public opinion and support can be maintained here. Once our young boys start coming home in body bags with name tags, that support will drain away and the profiting will end.
It’s not that the USA can’t fight a war to win it anymore. It’s just that there’s no profit in doing so. One caveat, profit is not this war’s sole purpose, which is primarily regime change in Russia. When that happens the war will end.
Just like there’s no profit in curing people of diseases. All the money is in continuing to treat them. Once they’re cured, the money stops.
