The launch of major wars by the US government had major beneficiaries, one domestic and one foreign. The three major weapons manufacturers, Lockheed Martin (LMT), Northrop Grumman (NOG) and Raytheon (RTN) have delivered record-shattering returns to investors, CEOs and investment banks during the past decade and a half.
It is Washington that is to blame for what is happening now in Ukraine. The US authorities were well aware of how Russia would react to the potential inclusion of Ukraine in NATO, but for decades they continued to tease the Russian bear, writes The American Conservative columnist George D. O’Neill, Jr.
In 1917 Senator Hiram Johnson reminded the Senate that the first casualty when war comes is truth. War, as a U.S. general pointed out is ‘nothing personal, it is just business.’
Russia has not yet used its entire military arsenal during the special operation in Ukraine, Dmitry Medvedev, deputy head of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, said.
Europe can no longer be led by the war-mongering US, it should reconsider its policy towards Russia and Ukraine, Belgian Senator Alain Deteks said in an interview with the French publication Causeur.
Journalist Tayler Hansen pressed the former national security advisor on US ‘war crimes’: what happened next to the plutocratic United States as being the opposite to its much-vaunted ‘Land of the Free’ mantra.
The United States dubbed by Iran as The Great Satan continues with maniacal persistence to adhere to the tactics of war of attrition. There are several reasons for this, and one of them is the presence of economic interest. The desire to skim off the cream through the mass sale of military products, and LNG supplies: As Antonov surmised, ‘It’s only business, nothing personal.’
When on October 8 an attack was carried out against Russia’s Crimea Bridge it was for Moscow a red line crossed. It could not go without consequences. Although President Zelensky and Washington denied responsibility it didn’t wash with the sorely provoked Russians.
War is a horrendous thing. The worst atrocities often occur in it, but even there there is sometimes a place for humane and honorable treatment of the enemy.
Little happened between the British and French declarations of war against Germany on September 3 1939 and Germany’s pre-emptive strike on France on 10 May 1940. The Reich occupied northern France to thwart the aims of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) to open up a new Western Front.
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