The Mad Propaganda Push To Normalize War Profiteering In Ukraine

There's been an astonishingly brazen propaganda push to normalize war profiteering in Ukraine as Kyiv coordinates with the arms industry and western governments to convert the war-ravaged nation into a major domestic weapons manufacturer, thereby turning Ukrainians into proxies of the military industrial complex as well as the Pentagon.

At an event in Kyiv which hosted 250 "Defense" industry corporations from 30 different countries on Friday, President Zelensky gave a speech urging war profiteers to open factories in Ukraine to cut out the middleman of securing and delivering so many weapons from abroad. This is an investment that the arms industry would ostensibly have plenty of time to set up, given that western officials are now going out of their way to communicate to the public that this war will stretch on for many more years to come.

"To give all the opportunities to realize their potential to every company that works for the sake of defense - in Ukraine and with Ukraine or that wants to come to Ukraine."

Stoll does not name the alternate universe he is describing in which the US military is used to keep Americans safe rather than to advance imperial interests abroad. Another recent Wall Street Journal article titled "The War in Ukraine Is Also a Giant Arms Fair" and subtitled "Arms makers are getting orders for weapons being put to the test on the battlefield" glorifies the way war machinery is being field tested on human bodies to the benefit of war profiteers.

A Reuters article from two weeks ago titled "At London arms fair, global war fears are good for business" gushes over how much money is being raked in by arms manufacturers as a result of this war, with one unnamed arms industry executive telling Reuters, "War is good for business."

Just the other day CNN anchor Erin Burnett followed up some clips of "Far right lawmakers" voicing their opposition to funding for the Ukraine proxy war by pausing to explain to her audience that this funding is actually good for Americans, because it goes straight into the US arms industry.

All this propaganda energy is going into normalizing the act of war profiteering because if you let the idea stand on its own, it would make people scream in horror.

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