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Europeans behave as if it is within our range of choices to renounce war. Such a delusion is madness as long as hostile nations led by China, Russia, Iran and North Korea see extreme violence or the threat of it as the most effective means of fulfilling their policy objectives
that projection is something else
It’s enough to warm one’s hands on a winter’s night.
“The outlook for the security of the western democracies is bleak.”
Please???
Ah yes, the old neocon grift of MIC profits = security.
I’m predicting a lot of austerity in Europe going forward.
austerity for the people, abundance for the military budget
I find a good way to look at the MIC is that it’s a vehicle for siphoning taxes out of the system and putting them back in the hands of the ruling class. Instead of money going to things it’s meant for like building infrastructure, providing social services, and so on, it gets handed back to the oligarchs to produce weapons.
It can be a jobs program, as military Keynesianism, but Europe would have to scrap the neoliberal Eurozone to do that.
Indeed, but even with military Keynesianism there’s still ultimately a problem of labor and resources being diverted away from producing things people actually need. You need to already have a solid civil economy to prop up the military industry.
