'In none of those cases have any executives in the American weapons-making firms expressed the slightest qualms about their role in fostering human rights abuses and fueling destabilizing, unnecessary conflicts.'
all too accurately as an"infomercial." Taiclet used the opportunity to tout the rise of global tensions as a remarkable long-term business opportunity for his company:
"Well, we're planning for the long run and not just in the Javelin, because this situation, the Ukraine conflict, has highlighted a couple of really important things for us. One is that we need to have superior systems in large enough numbers… We know that there's going to be increased demand for those kinds of equipment, too, because the threat between Russia and China is just going to increase even after the Ukraine war [that] we hope is over soon.
Putting that nightmarish possibility aside, there's another question that comes to mind : Does arming Ukraine really make Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, and their cohorts"defenders of democracy"? for decades now, my answer would be: far from it.
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