The world economy is dominated by the world's largest arms dealer by far, the USA.

But it's a much bigger problem than that, as the "directors" are an international banking consortium that control much, much more than arms production alone... they control the world-wide banking system (for example, The FED (controller of the US dollar) and the International monetary fund) and rule the world through debt. This cartel has been around since the slavery days... once, the UK was the headquarters, but now, the USA plays that role.

As this post demonstrates, war is the most fantastic source of profit for them.

They are not nationalist, but they USE nationalism for profit. They often arm and loan money to both sides of a conflict. This ruling class is not one family (like Rockefeller) or bank (like Bank of America), but a collection of the most powerful families and organizations that control generations of wealth.

Also, there's a lot of misinformation out there to shield them from criticism, they are masters of propaganda. Deceit built upon deceit, conspiracies (true and false) abound. Never, ever believe any one source, or any three sources for that matter. Today, most news organizations are either owned by them, or controlled by them via other means.

History is the key to knowledge. Now, the web is so complex that it's hard for one person to fathom, but it becomes much easier to grasp if you start at the source and observe their public history over the decades.

Deutsch Bank, JP Morgan, Wells Fargo, all serve on each others board (and The FED) and are all part of this cartel. Start at the 1800s and research from there, just pick one...

War is a waste. Eisenhower had many flaws, but he was spot-on when he said:

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some fifty miles of concrete pavement. We pay for a single fighter with a half-million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people. . . . This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.[1][5]

Sometimes, there's no other way to deal with fascists and imperialists. But fuck, that just means that fascists and imperialists have doubled the waste that they would've created if they'd just kept to themselves, the stupid fucks.

But its used to destroy a several million dollar tank.

Well I agree with the sentiment of the post but at the time the Javelin was the star of the Ukraine war theater, it's actual cost was...hmm ....wait a second...oh...way way more.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidhambling/2022/12/19/bang-for-your-buck-does-a-javelin-missile-really-cost-as-much-as-a-ferrari/

I’m guessing the asshole that downvoted this either manufactures Javelin rockets, or the assholes that fire them.

@Deceptichum "to kill just a poor child from a poor family. Easy come easy go little high little low. Anywhere the wind blows it doesn't really matter to USA."- bohemian Rhapsody but alterered. Anyway did you see this aljazeera article of illegal aerosol bombs from Israel evaporating children in Gaza at 3000 Celsius?