The U.S. military industrial complex gets massively enriched by the war, of course. The Senate approved the initial $40 billion aid bill with no checks or balances on the aid (Rand Paul tried to insert a special inspector general to oversee the funds but failed), and there have also been many follow-up spends totaling additional tens of billions of dollars with additional funds from allies. According to a CBS documentary only 30% of U.S. supplied arms/munitions reached its final destination. Roughly 10% of U.S. manufacturing output pre-war went into weapons production, or about $220 billion/year, so the money to be made is enormous. Compare this with Russia’s total military budget, which in 2021 was only about $63 billion/year.
The amount of graft and kickbacks to the military industrial complex and American politicians is a significant portion of the aid supplied, with corrupt Ukraine politicians taking a cut and funneling much of the rest of the funds back into America, which is par for the course in Ukraine except in terms of the size of the graft. Additionally Blackrock gets to buy up ultra-depressed Ukrainian assets for pennies on the dollar in coordination with Zelensky.
[As an aside, a similar analysis could be run on the 20 year war in Afghanistan, which fulfilled many U.S. establishment objectives by creating a “forever war” to launder massive amounts of taxpayer funds through the military. An outright military victory would have been bad for this agenda. The Pentagon has never passed an audit and in 2013 it was estimated that $8.5 trillion dollars of Pentagon funds had been “lost”. The Vietnam war was also planned by the establishment as a long slog, filled with dreadful rules of engagement and with the intention of sapping anti-communist vigor, and it succeeded masterfully.]
When I saw the shot of Pelosi holding up the flag of Ukraine, pretending to care about the people in harms way, it made me sick. Here she goes with pretending with the whole cabal who wants to save the poor Ukrainian people. Meanwhile, we send a stand up comedian billions to squander. Zelensky is a corrupt, inept con artist. Billions of our tax dollars gone. They should have gotten nothing more than humanitarian aid.
?! 'save the poor Ukrainian people'...Lookit, C, this ukie mechanic was in Kiev, waaay back in 1968 ! & even back then Everyone spoke Russian...dismay&horror, you bet.
Most importantly to note that myself and many others do not support Russia either. But let them expose Ukraine’s poster child and the money laundering as well as the Bio labs being run by nefarious US organizations. And anything else that’s going on such as child trafficking.
There’s an American “inept con artist” behind all of these shenanigans. Well, actually, many, but one in particular stands out. So many billionaires now in America that we can hardly call these criminals “inept”. They have little or no morals, ethics, or integrity.
Energy is cheap in America and we are exporting record amounts…not sure what you are talking about…maybe you fell into a coma last year and just got out??
Well since the money doesn't really exist...remember it's inflated fiat dollars...It's everywhere and nowhere. The real focus should be on the national debt, tower of Babel, that is being spit out of those virtual, treasury money printing machines. Scratch a crisis and you'll find bureaucrats printing money, as fast as their little fingers can push a mouse button.
Here is the unfortunate part...it's a race between financial default/insolvency, of the country and Americans waking to the fact, that they've been snared in the Comfort, Convenience and Entertainment trap - in exchange for allowing the national and global bureaucracies to run the world.
We (American citizenry) will lose this race. That will give rise to a monetary crisis...yes I know we have one now, but it has yet to be assembled into the easily digestible, puffed treat the masses love so much.
When it is...you will see banks holding deposits (your money), radical inflation (what we have now is nothing) and then deep recessions, ultra devaluation of the dollar and more.
Their solution will promise to stop your suffering. They will stabilize the system, so life can go back to normal (where have you heard that before??). So you can go back to your netflix; sports events;, favorite morning tv propaganda shows; starbucks; cheap soda and snacks; your branded celeb emulating clothes, car make-up, furniture and jewelry, $5 a gallon gas and don't forget door dash and dollar menus at the drive throughs. All you have to do is get behind and use the CBDC, they've worked tirelessly to create, "on your behalf".🤣🤣🤣🤣
It's all a well orchestrated plan, wrapped in a contrived veil of ineptitude - that veil is only there to hide the ugly truths we keep marrying, underneath it. Virtually no one ever looks behind it...so they (bureaucrats) march on unfettered.
I wrote a short article about Maj. General Smedley Darlington Butler, USMC Ret (1881-1940).
He wrote a short book about this very issue (war profiteering, but the larger underlying problem of those who create these wars for the profits and money laundering). One of his quotes explains the problem clearly.
“I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. I helped purify Nicaragua for the International Banking House of Brown Brothers in 1902-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for the American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras right for the American fruit companies in 1903. In China in 1927 I helped see to it that Standard Oil went on its way unmolested. Looking back on it, I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents.”
He made this comment over 80 years ago. Have we learned anything since then...aside from shaking our fists and saying "we really don't like this"...NOPE. Ukraine is the proof of that.
So long as Comfort, convenience and Entertainment are more important, than anything else, this will go on and on and on.
I keep asking people, what would you, HONESTLY, give up...to put an end to XYZ - name the issue.
You'd be surprised at the impotent answers.
There is no REAL resolve to stop this and ALL the other things the masses complain about. It would take sacrifice and suffering (loss of convenience) and that is something the masses will avoid at all costs.
Maintaining the Status Quo is paramount and the Orchestrators at the top know this, all too well.
I was in the same boat during the Clinton years, that was my great awakening. Since then virtually all that I took as truth and trusted historical narratives, have been exposed as lies, manipulations and psychological attacks..
I think I am finally getting the answer, to my oft asked question...why can't we learn from history and not repeat it.
It's the generational soft indoctrination, passed from parents and the generation before them. They were sold lies as facts and sold it to their kids and so on. IMHO this is the mechanism, that allows the hucksters, perverts, opportunists and predators, to use the same playbook for centuries.
If we look at the movers and shakers, on the vanguard of todays woke, brave new world...social justice at all costs to right the wrongs of the evil doers of the past/present - they are us 30 years ago.
They will be us in 30 years or so...and of course their great awakening will come too late, as ours has. History will already have repeated itself and the actors at the top, will already have done their damage.
I truly am amazed sometimes, that we as a species made it this far. Had we come to these higher, self righteous levels of consciousness and self delusion, when we were hunters and gatherers - we'd surly would have starved or been eaten by something.
The awakening was not political, it revolved around the realization that all the dirty lying bastards running the world...are dirty lying bastards...and we were raised on lies.
The Uniparty has been around since the beginning. Wading through the swamp of lies, seems to be something we have not learned a short cut or hack around.
I have had the same exact revelations as you! Sometimes I wonder how anyone ties their damn shoelaces! I truly think that nearly everything was better, safer, and more productive BEFORE technology. I’m going back to “keep it simple stupid”-lol! Now I’m going to go buy my rotary phone back 😉!
You’re exactly right about “comfort, convenience and entertainment” being the great consuming passion of most. Keep in mind though that, with those fiat dollars, the already wealthy (cabal/complex) will have purchased all the comforts, etc., that money can buy but the common man/woman will be deprived of all of their passions when the cbdc is the norm" or when the shtf. A rough payday will come soon enough for the unwise.
Oh, you are absolutely correct and I probably should have fleshed out that the CCE trap applies only to the commoners. It always has been that way...when the people are starving or freezing the "leaders, elites and inner circle" will be fat and warm.
I’m out of the AF now but trained at and worked at bases where they trained foreign pilots from everywhere. I had the unfortunate experience of being harassed by one.
Responding to the two questions at the end of the article:
1 With US armament manufacturers like Lockheed-Martin, Raytheon, and General Dynamics;
2 Never.
The people supporting the Ukraine resistance can't even tell the truth about the events that are occurring in Ukraine! And they continue to use ill-gotten funds to support their version of what should happen over there. That's why they'll never learn, and why they're incapable of making peace.
The war can go on indefinitely, with the US funding it. The idea that Ukraine is a beacon of democracy and Russia is an authoritarian regime is the underlying falsehood of the entire US support for Ukraine. In the Democracy Index, both Ukraine and Russia were rated as "hybrid regime," and, with the war and the involvement of the US and western Europe, both have likely drifted even more to the authoritarian end of the spectrum.
Meanwhile the news media is all for the war, I remember the town hall mistress kept asking Trump,
do you want Ukraine to win the war? Almost like asking, do you want the Sox to win the World Series? As if this simplistic and childish view of the world, "we beat you, ha ha" is how the adults in the room want to deal with the situation. Trump actually made the most sense when he said that we need to stop the killing, he wants to end the dying, and the destruction. What a progressive concept!
We are energy dominant thanks to Putin’s asinine invasion of Ukraine. We’ve spent trillions preparing for war with Russia and now they are weakened with a several billion more thanks to Senator McCain’s prescient work over decades…wtf are you complaining about??
Finally, the DC Swamp is a bonifide expert at something...wasting trillions of dollars that are really pocketed by all the Swamp Rats and their trusted henchmen.
A lot of it is being spyphoned off by elensky, his cronies and kickbacks to Joe Biden - yes Joe has not changed his ways, he's just finding better ways to hide it
The U.S. military industrial complex gets massively enriched by the war, of course. The Senate approved the initial $40 billion aid bill with no checks or balances on the aid (Rand Paul tried to insert a special inspector general to oversee the funds but failed), and there have also been many follow-up spends totaling additional tens of billions of dollars with additional funds from allies. According to a CBS documentary only 30% of U.S. supplied arms/munitions reached its final destination. Roughly 10% of U.S. manufacturing output pre-war went into weapons production, or about $220 billion/year, so the money to be made is enormous. Compare this with Russia’s total military budget, which in 2021 was only about $63 billion/year.
The amount of graft and kickbacks to the military industrial complex and American politicians is a significant portion of the aid supplied, with corrupt Ukraine politicians taking a cut and funneling much of the rest of the funds back into America, which is par for the course in Ukraine except in terms of the size of the graft. Additionally Blackrock gets to buy up ultra-depressed Ukrainian assets for pennies on the dollar in coordination with Zelensky.
[As an aside, a similar analysis could be run on the 20 year war in Afghanistan, which fulfilled many U.S. establishment objectives by creating a “forever war” to launder massive amounts of taxpayer funds through the military. An outright military victory would have been bad for this agenda. The Pentagon has never passed an audit and in 2013 it was estimated that $8.5 trillion dollars of Pentagon funds had been “lost”. The Vietnam war was also planned by the establishment as a long slog, filled with dreadful rules of engagement and with the intention of sapping anti-communist vigor, and it succeeded masterfully.]
It's far worse than we can imagine.
Incredible!
Yep, Trump acknowledges it was a mistake to wait until February 2020 to surrender to the Taliban…he should have done it on day 1 of his presidency.
When I saw the shot of Pelosi holding up the flag of Ukraine, pretending to care about the people in harms way, it made me sick. Here she goes with pretending with the whole cabal who wants to save the poor Ukrainian people. Meanwhile, we send a stand up comedian billions to squander. Zelensky is a corrupt, inept con artist. Billions of our tax dollars gone. They should have gotten nothing more than humanitarian aid.
?! 'save the poor Ukrainian people'...Lookit, C, this ukie mechanic was in Kiev, waaay back in 1968 ! & even back then Everyone spoke Russian...dismay&horror, you bet.
Most importantly to note that myself and many others do not support Russia either. But let them expose Ukraine’s poster child and the money laundering as well as the Bio labs being run by nefarious US organizations. And anything else that’s going on such as child trafficking.
There’s an American “inept con artist” behind all of these shenanigans. Well, actually, many, but one in particular stands out. So many billionaires now in America that we can hardly call these criminals “inept”. They have little or no morals, ethics, or integrity.
Bingo—Trump started sending Zelensky billions in lethal aid.
Bush, Clinton, Bush, Obama, Trump, Biden have all supported Ukraine with cash and arms.
It only became a war under one
And now we are energy dominant and Russia’s military has been degraded…I’m not getting sick of winning!!
Our reserves are dry.
I don't call that energy dominant.
We can thank Biden for draining our reserves. He is an Obama puppet, not in his right mind. But he signed off on all of it.
Nope, we have huge reserves…fracking changed everything.
Biden's hit on US Energy:
https://nypost.com/2022/07/08/biden-bid-to-curb-oil-supplies-is-sure-to-raise-gas-prices/
dailycaller.com/2022/11/03/biden-administration-making-diesel-crisis-worse
Biden Sold US Strategic Oil to China and India.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/bidens-strategic-oil-reserve-release-will-mostly-go-china-and-india
Energy is cheap in America and we are exporting record amounts…not sure what you are talking about…maybe you fell into a coma last year and just got out??
Trump is/was not President when Ukraine War started.
Biden sent 78.6 Billion to Ukraine .
https://www.cfr.org/article/how-much-aid-has-us-sent-ukraine-here-are-six-charts#:~:text=Since%20the%20war%20began%2C%20the,Economy%2C%20a%20German%20research%20institute.
Yes, Biden’s foreign policy is the best since Clinton.
Trump is/was not President when Ukraine War started.
Biden sent 78.6 Billion to Ukraine .
https://www.cfr.org/article/how-much-aid-has-us-sent-ukraine-here-are-six-charts#:~:text=Since%20the%20war%20began%2C%20the,Economy%2C%20a%20German%20research%20institute.
Your Dates do not match:
Wikipedia: US of Donald Trump Administration (2017–2021)
Ukraine War started Feb. 24, 2022,
https://washingtonsblog.com/when-did-the-war-in-ukraine-start/
You are so right. Many, many.
A total bull$hit money laundering operation to bankrupt America and enslave with CBDC
Bingo!
Well since the money doesn't really exist...remember it's inflated fiat dollars...It's everywhere and nowhere. The real focus should be on the national debt, tower of Babel, that is being spit out of those virtual, treasury money printing machines. Scratch a crisis and you'll find bureaucrats printing money, as fast as their little fingers can push a mouse button.
Here is the unfortunate part...it's a race between financial default/insolvency, of the country and Americans waking to the fact, that they've been snared in the Comfort, Convenience and Entertainment trap - in exchange for allowing the national and global bureaucracies to run the world.
We (American citizenry) will lose this race. That will give rise to a monetary crisis...yes I know we have one now, but it has yet to be assembled into the easily digestible, puffed treat the masses love so much.
When it is...you will see banks holding deposits (your money), radical inflation (what we have now is nothing) and then deep recessions, ultra devaluation of the dollar and more.
Their solution will promise to stop your suffering. They will stabilize the system, so life can go back to normal (where have you heard that before??). So you can go back to your netflix; sports events;, favorite morning tv propaganda shows; starbucks; cheap soda and snacks; your branded celeb emulating clothes, car make-up, furniture and jewelry, $5 a gallon gas and don't forget door dash and dollar menus at the drive throughs. All you have to do is get behind and use the CBDC, they've worked tirelessly to create, "on your behalf".🤣🤣🤣🤣
It's all a well orchestrated plan, wrapped in a contrived veil of ineptitude - that veil is only there to hide the ugly truths we keep marrying, underneath it. Virtually no one ever looks behind it...so they (bureaucrats) march on unfettered.
I wrote a short article about Maj. General Smedley Darlington Butler, USMC Ret (1881-1940).
He wrote a short book about this very issue (war profiteering, but the larger underlying problem of those who create these wars for the profits and money laundering). One of his quotes explains the problem clearly.
“I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. I helped purify Nicaragua for the International Banking House of Brown Brothers in 1902-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for the American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras right for the American fruit companies in 1903. In China in 1927 I helped see to it that Standard Oil went on its way unmolested. Looking back on it, I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents.”
He made this comment over 80 years ago. Have we learned anything since then...aside from shaking our fists and saying "we really don't like this"...NOPE. Ukraine is the proof of that.
So long as Comfort, convenience and Entertainment are more important, than anything else, this will go on and on and on.
I keep asking people, what would you, HONESTLY, give up...to put an end to XYZ - name the issue.
You'd be surprised at the impotent answers.
There is no REAL resolve to stop this and ALL the other things the masses complain about. It would take sacrifice and suffering (loss of convenience) and that is something the masses will avoid at all costs.
Maintaining the Status Quo is paramount and the Orchestrators at the top know this, all too well.
BOOM💥...”the great awakening” is upon many of us. I see it so clear now, it’s scary!
Nearly everything I’ve been taught, told, and have trusted in my 59 years, is a LIE.
Except God...perfect and unchanging.
I was in the same boat during the Clinton years, that was my great awakening. Since then virtually all that I took as truth and trusted historical narratives, have been exposed as lies, manipulations and psychological attacks..
I think I am finally getting the answer, to my oft asked question...why can't we learn from history and not repeat it.
It's the generational soft indoctrination, passed from parents and the generation before them. They were sold lies as facts and sold it to their kids and so on. IMHO this is the mechanism, that allows the hucksters, perverts, opportunists and predators, to use the same playbook for centuries.
If we look at the movers and shakers, on the vanguard of todays woke, brave new world...social justice at all costs to right the wrongs of the evil doers of the past/present - they are us 30 years ago.
They will be us in 30 years or so...and of course their great awakening will come too late, as ours has. History will already have repeated itself and the actors at the top, will already have done their damage.
I truly am amazed sometimes, that we as a species made it this far. Had we come to these higher, self righteous levels of consciousness and self delusion, when we were hunters and gatherers - we'd surly would have starved or been eaten by something.
After your awakening you voted for George W Bush??? Maybe you should go back to sleep. ;)
The awakening was not political, it revolved around the realization that all the dirty lying bastards running the world...are dirty lying bastards...and we were raised on lies.
The Uniparty has been around since the beginning. Wading through the swamp of lies, seems to be something we have not learned a short cut or hack around.
You got IT!!!!
I have had the same exact revelations as you! Sometimes I wonder how anyone ties their damn shoelaces! I truly think that nearly everything was better, safer, and more productive BEFORE technology. I’m going back to “keep it simple stupid”-lol! Now I’m going to go buy my rotary phone back 😉!
We’re on the same page!
Well said!
Thanks Gabe.
Not that I am right or have all the answers, but I wish I were wrong, where the masses are concerned.
You’re exactly right about “comfort, convenience and entertainment” being the great consuming passion of most. Keep in mind though that, with those fiat dollars, the already wealthy (cabal/complex) will have purchased all the comforts, etc., that money can buy but the common man/woman will be deprived of all of their passions when the cbdc is the norm" or when the shtf. A rough payday will come soon enough for the unwise.
Oh, you are absolutely correct and I probably should have fleshed out that the CCE trap applies only to the commoners. It always has been that way...when the people are starving or freezing the "leaders, elites and inner circle" will be fat and warm.
History is replete with these examples.
Great comment...I like "a rough payday"!!
Thank you! I appreciate your comments and outlook as well.
Madness.
Is Zelensky still on his farewell tour, or has he returned to face the music?
TQ for this sad reminder. who'll fly those F16s, or did I miss where they said that Ukrainian pilots were being trained?
My bet is the Russian pilots are licking their chops in anticipation of fighting the F-16
To any AF folks in the training arena: are their any Ukrainian pilots here training to fly F-16’s ? We have a right to know.
The American people under the DemocRats have no right to know ,only the right to listen to lies from the Dementia in chief
I'm pretty sure they have been trained by Nat. Guard in Tucson for years
I’m out of the AF now but trained at and worked at bases where they trained foreign pilots from everywhere. I had the unfortunate experience of being harassed by one.
Responding to the two questions at the end of the article:
1 With US armament manufacturers like Lockheed-Martin, Raytheon, and General Dynamics;
2 Never.
The people supporting the Ukraine resistance can't even tell the truth about the events that are occurring in Ukraine! And they continue to use ill-gotten funds to support their version of what should happen over there. That's why they'll never learn, and why they're incapable of making peace.
The war can go on indefinitely, with the US funding it. The idea that Ukraine is a beacon of democracy and Russia is an authoritarian regime is the underlying falsehood of the entire US support for Ukraine. In the Democracy Index, both Ukraine and Russia were rated as "hybrid regime," and, with the war and the involvement of the US and western Europe, both have likely drifted even more to the authoritarian end of the spectrum.
Meanwhile the news media is all for the war, I remember the town hall mistress kept asking Trump,
do you want Ukraine to win the war? Almost like asking, do you want the Sox to win the World Series? As if this simplistic and childish view of the world, "we beat you, ha ha" is how the adults in the room want to deal with the situation. Trump actually made the most sense when he said that we need to stop the killing, he wants to end the dying, and the destruction. What a progressive concept!
We are energy dominant thanks to Putin’s asinine invasion of Ukraine. We’ve spent trillions preparing for war with Russia and now they are weakened with a several billion more thanks to Senator McCain’s prescient work over decades…wtf are you complaining about??
And Whitey on the moon
Finally, the DC Swamp is a bonifide expert at something...wasting trillions of dollars that are really pocketed by all the Swamp Rats and their trusted henchmen.
Me: Buh bye Bakhmut.
JoeMentia: MOAR MONEY for my friend the cross dressing cokehead.
They lost it to a cook and some pardoned prisoners 🤣🤣🤣. Can you imagine what would happen if Russia sent it's toughest professional forces?
I doubt we will ever know. Crazy how we are about to default yet Biden is giving away billions still
Geeeve more mahneee. I not reeech enafff yet.
Whaaaaaaa!! I hate being energy dominant. I pooped my pants!
President Don John Trump
A lot of it is being spyphoned off by elensky, his cronies and kickbacks to Joe Biden - yes Joe has not changed his ways, he's just finding better ways to hide it
People have been canceled from major TV networks for this kind of treasonous talk.............