Fuel..

 

For weapons to sell more and at higher prices, the preconditions are more tensions around the world and more risk of war, so there will be a growing, expanding market for weapons.

The more conflict-ridden the world becomes, the more reason there is for the US to expand its arms exports and increase its military deployments worldwide. 

To whom and how much the US sells weapons will, on the one hand, increase regional tensions and, in turn, spur further purchases. 

According to SIPRI Yearbook 2022, current US arms policy and practice too often fuel war rather than deterring it. Roughly two-thirds of current conflicts - 34 out of 46 - involve one or more parties armed by the US.

The Beast..

 

 The big arms manufacturers profit enormously from wars and other armed conflicts, athough never acknowledged by U.S. political leaders.

In fact, without continuous and prolonged warfare that requires the deployment of their guns, bombs, tanks, warships and submarines, they would go out of business.

The American military budget is $886 billion. It is four times more than China’s military budget, and 10 times bigger than Russia’s budget. In total, the United States spends more on “defense” than the next nine countries combined.

Is it defending democracy, our freedom, weapon of mass destruction. or human rights?May be it is feeding the beast within ....

AI..

 

Collusion..

 

The Democrats are struggling with the thought of Donald Trump running again for the office of the presidency.  

I think if they left it alone, he will go nowhere, may be.   Just a thought.

Lie..

 

Titan..

 

Nonstop War..

 

The United States has been fighting wars constantly since invading Afghanistan in 2001. This nonstop warfare is far less exceptional than it might seem: the United States has been at war or has invaded other countries almost every year since independence.

The United States of War (the book by David Vine) demonstrates how US leaders across generations have locked the United States in a self-perpetuating system of permanent war by constructing the world’s largest-ever collection of foreign military bases a global matrix that has made offensive interventionist wars 

Beyond exposing the profit-making desires, political interests, racism, and toxic masculinity underlying the country’s relationship to war and empire, 

The United States of War shows how the long history of U.S. military expansion shapes our daily lives, from today’s multi-trillion–dollar wars to the pervasiveness of violence and militarism in everyday U.S. life with catastrophic toll which have left millions dead, wounded, and displaced. Just a thought.

Know..

 

Russian President Vladimir Putin has reacted angrily after President Biden agreed in an interview that the Kremlin leader was "a killer."

"It takes one to know one," Putin said on national television, adding that the children's taunt had a "very deep meaning." People often see themselves reflected in others, Putin said, suggesting that Biden was projecting on him American guilt for slavery and the treatment of Native Americans.

Biden's off-hand comment in an interview with ABC News has ended months of tight-lipped anticipation in Moscow about where relations might head under the new administration. Hopes were not particularly high for the relationship, which Putin said in November was so spoiled that it couldn't be spoiled any more.  Just a thought.

Gender..

 

Grudge..

 

Whether Joe Biden personally profited from Hunter Biden’s influence-peddling has yet to be proved, but it certainly seems as though every person involved in the transactions was aware of the president’s role. 

A text message Hunter Biden sent in 2017 to a Chinese business associate allegedly confirms as much:

"I am sitting here with my father and we would like to understand why the commitment made has not been fulfilled. Tell the director that I would like to resolve this now before it gets out of hand, and now means tonight. And, Z, if I get a call or text from anyone involved in this other than you, Zhang, or the chairman, I will make certain that between the man sitting next to me and every person he knows and my ability to forever hold a grudge that you will regret not following my direction. I am sitting here waiting for the call with my father.”

Hunter Biden was a self-destructive crack addict who tried to write off prostitutes on his tax returns. He had nothing to offer besides his father’s name, which he did, over and over again.

And now, he’s the fall guy inorder to distract from the fact that this was a family affair. Maybe that’s why the president is “very proud” of his son. [The Washington Enquirer.]