83
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
this post was submitted on 24 Aug 2023
83 points (100.0% liked)
chapotraphouse
13551 readers
689 users here now
Banned? DM Wmill to appeal.
No anti-nautilism posts. See: Eco-fascism Primer
Gossip posts go in c/gossip. Don't post low-hanging fruit here after it gets removed from c/gossip
founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
Cluster Munitions manufacturing is winning. As are small arms suppliers.
The western governments have dropped billions on buying weapons.
The goal is now to have a simmering forever war, as it’s good for the economy.
We had that in Iraq and Afghanistan and it just burned through our military labor force. Ukraine won't last longer than the US did oversees. And the surrounding states aren't exactly overflowing with pro-American sentiment, the longer this shit drags on, either.
Private military contractors benefited greatly during Iraq and Afghanistan, though.
It's good for allocating money from the workers to raytheon shareholders.
It still makes America poorer overall. For what we spent blowing up Ukraine, we could have 16,000 miles of high speed rail.
That's what he said, good for the economy.