by Eric Zuesse, The Duran:

On November 13th, Medea Benjamin and Nicholas J.L. Davies headlined “CONGRESSIONAL AMENDMENT OPENS FLOODGATES FOR WAR PROFITEERS AND A MAJOR GROUND WAR ON RUSSIA” and reported that a bipartisan “amendment sailed through the Armed Services Committee in mid-October and, if it becomes law [which it almost certainly and overwhelmingly will, since it’s backed by America’s military-industrial complex, which also funds the careers of members of Congress], the Department of Defense will be allowed to lock in multi-year contracts and award non-competitive contracts to arms manufacturers for Ukraine-related weapons.” It continued: “Looking at the weapons list, military analyst and retired Marine Colonel Mark Cancian noted: ‘This isn’t replacing what we’ve given [Ukraine]. It’s building stockpiles for a major ground war [with Russia] in the future. This is not the list you would use for China. For China we’d have a very different list.’”