During a December investor’s meeting for investors of Credit Suisse, a stealth recording captured a speech amongst arms and defense companies – big players in the military industrial complex like Oshkosh, Raytheon, and Lockheed Martin. And according to the recording, these international arms manufacturers are quite pleased with the recent escalation of violence in the Middle East. Because they profit when the world burns. Someone has to, right?
They were apparently gathered to celebrate the imminent increase of conflict as the US ups bombing in Daesh (ISIS), Russia intervenes in the Syrian civil war, and Saudi Arabia bombs the Yemen rebels. By the direction of things, it seems like these arm companies will all be getting Christmas bonuses.
This type of amoral capitalist venture is, quite literally, tearing the Middle East and surrounding areas apart. How could a world ever hope to achieve anything resembling peace, when some of the most economically powerful institutions and players are those who fuel the violent fire that is burning so hot. Because governments rely on manufacturers like this for self defense, arms companies have most politicians snugly tucked in their pockets and can whip them out on a whim and jerk them until they ejaculate taxpayer dollars all over their expensive Italian suites.
But it gets even more sinister. If war equals profit, why should these shady corporate jackals wait around for people to start wars, when they can go out and encourage them to start all on their own? If you make billions of dollars in profits when people decide to kill each other, you aren’t exactly going to be a preacher of the peace. Which raises some very forbidding questions about terrorist attacks, propaganda, misinformation, and above all those filthy rich men who hide in the shadows behind it all.
America is poised to send soldiers off to two Middle Eastern nations and risks inflaming a third. And if that happens, somewhere you can bet there will be expensive crystal glasses clinking, and greedy corporate warmongers patting eachother on the back for a job well done.