Tag: NATO

For War Profiteers Afghanistan was the most profitable war since World War II

The departure of American troops from Afghanistan is being lamented as a defeat. Not quite: Not from the point of view of the US military arms making complex and the political elite who invested in war. For them, the Afghan occupation has been a thunderous success. Trillions of taxpayer dollars have flowed through their budgets and profits over the two decades in which despite public cynicism and disapproval they successfully maintained the operation.