by Eric Zuesse, The Duran:
They do it because these billionaires, who control the firms that sell to the U.S. Government (and not — or very little — to consumers), need to control the U.S. Government, in order to control their market. A billionaire wants to control his/her market; and if one’s market is one’s Government (and its allies), then this is the way to do that — by controlling one’s own Government. And there is, by now, massive — and it’s entirely consistent — evidence that America’s billionaires DO control the U.S. Govenment.
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On 16 August 2021, Jon Schwarz, at The Intercept, headlined “$10,000 INVESTED IN DEFENSE STOCKS WHEN AFGHANISTAN WAR BEGAN NOW WORTH ALMOST $100,000: Was the Afghanistan War a failure? Not for the top five defense contractors and their shareholders.” Does that reality place into an entirely different perspective than what the billionaires-controlled ‘news’-media have reported to you, about why the repeated promises during that two-decades-long U.S. invasion and military occupation of Afghanistan — promises to end it — turned out to have been a lie until Joe Biden (who wanted to instead increase the Obama-created war against Russia in Ukraine) carried out the withdrawal of America from Afghanistan, which Trump had promised to deliver but never did deliver? Of course, there is a lot of important history about that matter, which has been hidden from — instead of reported to — the American people. And the American public vote in elections, on the basis of what both contending Parties want the public not to know — such as that in America, the war-business is the most profitable one of them all, and actually controls the Government.
Schwarz opened:
IF YOU PURCHASED $10,000 of stock evenly divided among America’s top five defense contractors on September 18, 2001 — the day President George W. Bush signed the Authorization for Use of Military Force in response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks — and faithfully reinvested all dividends, it would now be worth $97,295.
This is a far greater return than was available in the overall stock market over the same period. $10,000 invested in an S&P 500 index fund on September 18, 2001, would now be worth $61,613.
That is, defense stocks outperformed the stock market overall by 58 percent during the Afghanistan War.
Moreover, given that the top five biggest defense contractors — Boeing, Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, and General Dynamics — are of course part of the S&P 500, the remaining firms had lower returns than the overall S&P returns.
These numbers suggest that it is incorrect to conclude that the Taliban’s immediate takeover of Afghanistan upon the U.S.’s departure means that the Afghanistan War was a failure. On the contrary, from the perspective of some of the most powerful people in the U.S., it may have been an extraordinary success. Notably, the boards of directors of all five defense contractors include retired top-level military officers. …
And yet Trump has the nerve now to be campaigning to win a Nobel Peace Prize — like the war-mongering Obama (in Syria, Libya and Ukraine) won during his first year as President — as being a ‘peacemaker’, because Trump says that he has prevented wars from happening that he says would otherwise have happened (if he hadn’t secretly stopped them from happening, he says). (That con is obviously aimed at fools, but he has always had plenty of those.)
In fact, the very first actual achievement of Trump as America’s new President in 2017 was Trump’s making the world’s all-time biggest-ever armaments sale, which was hidden by all U.S.-and-allied (billionaires-controlled) ‘news’-media but I headlined it on 21 May 2017, “U.S. $350 Billion Arms-Sale to Sauds Cements U.S.-Jihadist Alliance” and opened:
On Saturday, May 20th, U.S. President Donald Trump and the Saud family inked an all-time record-high $350 billion ten-year arms-deal that not only will cement-in the Saud family’s position as the world’s largest foreign purchasers of U.S.-produced weaponry, but will make the Saud family, and America’s ruling families, become, in effect, one aristocracy over both nations, because neither side will be able to violate the will of the other. As the years roll on, their mutual dependency will deepen, each and every year.
Sixteen years after the Saudi Prince Bandar bin Sultan al-Saud (who was nicknamed “Bandar Bush” for his intimacy with the Bush family) served in Washington as Saudi Arabia’s U.S. Ambassador and he and his wife personally paid tens of thousands of dollars to the Sauds’ minders who paid for the apartments and for the pilot-training of 9/11 jihadists, and the U.S. government hid this fact from the U.S. public for fifteen years until it was made public but suppressed by the U.S. press so that Americans still don’t know about it, the U.S. and Saudi aristocracies are now becoming bound together even more strongly than before, because of this record-shattering deal that Trump’s team negotiated with the Sauds.
