Re:US Ends Support For Ukrainian F-16s
by chiefalchemist on Sunday March 09, 2025 @09:22PM
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The number one benefactor from the US invasion of Iraq was the MIC poster child Halliburton. Then VP Dick Cheney was a former executive at Halliburton.
Not to worry, our MIC is oiled with gold. Even after the WMDs panic was uncovered as a lie, no one was held accountable. Our MIC does media control well too.
These are not things to be proud of.
[Not a US citizen/resident; never worked in MIC-related area]
a). MIC is an industrial sector creating jobs, doing some R&D (which can trickle down into the civilian sector) and bringing hundreds of billions they do in exports into country; all of those seem benefitial for the overall economy. Of course those can be achieved in non-military-related areas, but so far there was a working machine - and a wrench is already thrown into the gears.
b). The last three years have shown that large-scale wars are still on the table and having a working and oiled MIC is much better than having a degraded one.