Military Industrial Complex – American Conservative Movement https://americanconservativemovement.com American exceptionalism isn't dead. It just needs to be embraced. Fri, 29 Dec 2023 09:26:51 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2 https://americanconservativemovement.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/cropped-America-First-Favicon-32x32.png Military Industrial Complex – American Conservative Movement https://americanconservativemovement.com 32 32 135597105 World on Fire Sends Global Defense Orders Soaring https://americanconservativemovement.com/world-on-fire-sends-global-defense-orders-soaring/ https://americanconservativemovement.com/world-on-fire-sends-global-defense-orders-soaring/#comments Fri, 29 Dec 2023 09:26:51 +0000 https://americanconservativemovement.com/?p=199856 (Zero Hedge)—The world now teeters dangerously close to a major military conflict. This brewing storm of global unrest in Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and the South China Sea signals a chilling reminder of the world on fire.

The shift towards a multipolar world has led to a surge in military spending by countries. New data from the Financial Times reveals that the world’s top defense firms have been bombarded with orders from tanks to fighter jets to missiles.

Britain’s BAE Systems, South Korea’s Hanwha Aerospace, and the United State’s Lockheed Martin, along with twelve other defense firms, were found to have combined order backlogs of $777.6 billion at the end of 2022, up from $701.2 billion two years earlier – or about a 10% increase.

During the first half of 2023, the combined backlogs for the top 15 defense companies reached $765 billion, driven by surging war risk in Ukraine and the South China Sea, which forced governments to continue placing orders. The explosion of a possible regional conflict in the Middle East will likely result in surging orders in 2024.

According to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, total global military spending increased 3.7% in real terms in 2022 to a new record high of $2.24 trillion.

Defense stocks have soared as war risk surges. MSCI’s global defense benchmark is up 14% on the year and breaking out to new highs.

A breakdown of individual defense firms on a year-over-year price change since January 2022 shows monster gains across the board.

“The reality is lead times for policymaking, budgets and placing orders are so long that the invasion of almost two years ago is only just appearing in orders and barely in revenues, except for a few shorter-cycle specialists such as Rheinmetall,” Nick Cunningham, analyst at Agency Partners, said.

The order pipeline for defense firms will remain robust as the realities of a multipolar world continue to emerge.

]]> https://americanconservativemovement.com/world-on-fire-sends-global-defense-orders-soaring/feed/ 2 199856 Top U.S. Defense Official Claims Military-Industrial Complex Can Handle Russia, China and Middle East Conflicts All at Once https://americanconservativemovement.com/top-u-s-defense-official-claims-military-industrial-complex-can-handle-russia-china-and-middle-east-conflicts-all-at-once/ https://americanconservativemovement.com/top-u-s-defense-official-claims-military-industrial-complex-can-handle-russia-china-and-middle-east-conflicts-all-at-once/#comments Fri, 15 Dec 2023 09:18:50 +0000 https://americanconservativemovement.com/?p=199351 (Natural News)—One of the top dogs in America’s military-industrial complex believes that the United States can handle not just the Russia-Ukraine war and the Israel-Gaza war but also a third war against communist China.

Since the fiat financial house of cards known as the American economy is about to crumble, the globalists once again need to spark as many wars as possible to keep the money flowing. This is why Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Christopher Grady says the U.S. should start fighting China now, too.

At a recent Atlantic Council event, Grady spoke on behalf of the Pentagon in declaring that the military-industrial complex is at the ready to engage in three potential proxy wars if necessary to maintain the status quo.

The U.S. Navy in particular, Grady claims, is fully capable of waging battle against Russia in Ukraine, against China in Taiwan, in full support of Israel if called upon to obliterate Gaza. All three conflicts could be maintained simultaneously, Grady insists.

“You look at what is required to support Ukraine, look at what might be required to support our partner in Israel, and then, of course, you put Taiwan on top of that – we have the construct that we do with combatant commanders and the rest that should allow us to command and control those three things all at once,” Grady said.

“It’s part of our campaigning process, which is central to the national defense strategy. Is it challenging? Sure.”

(Related: A former United Nations consultant has claimed that Israel will cease to exist by the year 2030 if it does not cease its war on Gaza.)

Existing world order will collapse without another world war

Grady all but stated flat-out that unless the U.S. embroils itself in all three of these wars, the current world order, which is shaped like a pyramid in terms of its hierarchy, will crumble.

The powers that be know this just like they knew it back during the first and second world wars, which were timed and executed both to continue propagating the current world order and to advance Zionist interests in the Middle East and beyond.

Grady spoke during his address about various emerging global hotspots for war, which he described as “test cases” in the establishment’s efforts to keep itself at the top of the pyramid.

A potential future clash over Taiwan independence is one of the examples Grady proposed as “a case where the probability of buffoonery goes way high as you start to see the Chinese PRC, PLA and, more importantly, not PLA but kind of white and white vessels like Coast Guard equivalents,” he further stated.

“The tempo is a little bit higher right now. This isn’t a test case for what we would do; I think it’s a test case for the whole rules-based international order, frankly.”

As usual, the point of Grady’s groveling was to twist the arm of Congress into sending another $106 billion in funding to further arm Ukraine, Israel and various operations in the Asia-Pacific region of the world.

Around the same time as Grady’s speech, President Biden publicly claimed that if more weapons and money are not sent to Ukraine, Russia will be emboldened to take even more territory in Ukraine and beyond.

“The highly dubious logic seemed more of a desperate attempt at fearmongering, however, which is unlikely to sway the GOP holdouts blocking the Biden plan,” noted Zero Hedge about these latest developments on the global war stage.

The latest news about the military-industrial complex and its multi-front war on Israel’s enemies can be found at Genocide.news.

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]]> https://americanconservativemovement.com/top-u-s-defense-official-claims-military-industrial-complex-can-handle-russia-china-and-middle-east-conflicts-all-at-once/feed/ 5 199351 The Military Industrial Complex Is Making Hundreds of Billions of Dollars, and They Need a Military Draft in the U.S. To Take Things to the Next Level https://americanconservativemovement.com/the-military-industrial-complex-is-making-hundreds-of-billions-of-dollars-and-they-need-a-military-draft-in-the-u-s-to-take-things-to-the-next-level/ https://americanconservativemovement.com/the-military-industrial-complex-is-making-hundreds-of-billions-of-dollars-and-they-need-a-military-draft-in-the-u-s-to-take-things-to-the-next-level/#comments Fri, 29 Sep 2023 07:34:47 +0000 https://americanconservativemovement.com/?p=197245 (End of the American Dream)—It would be difficult to overstate the importance of the Military Industrial Complex to our society.  It employs millions of people, and it brings in hundreds of billions of dollars each year.  The Military Industrial Complex has always been one of the central pillars of our economy, and these days business is booming thanks to the war in Ukraine and the possibility of a war with China.

Needless to say, those that run the Military Industrial Complex want the gravy train to continue, and so politicians that are pro-war are showered with campaign contributions.  In both major parties, politicians that are pro-war greatly outnumber those that are anti-war, and that is not likely to change any time soon.

Smedley D. Butler fought in four major conflicts, and in 1935 he astutely observed that “war is a racket”…

“WAR is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.”

Of course the statements that he made back then are even more true today.

If the Military Industrial Complex suddenly disappeared, it would leave a giant, gaping hole in our economy that would be extremely difficult to fill.  In an excellent piece that he posted earlier this week, Richard C. Cook shared some numbers about the Military Industrial Complex that are absolutely astounding…

Today about 2.1 million people are employed by the defense industry. According to Acara Solutions, a major MIC recruiting firm, their average annual salary is $106,700, 40 percent higher than the national average. The companies they work for produced revenues in 2022 of $741 billion. How much of their production is high-priced junk, no one knows. The performance of U.S.-produced armaments in the Ukraine conflict does not seem impressive. No modern U.S. weapons have ever been tested in an industrial-type war against an equal adversary.

The MIC also includes active-duty uniformed personnel of 1.37 million and reserves of 849,000. There are 750 U.S. military bases in more than 80 countries outside of the U.S. More than 100,000 U.S. military personnel are stationed in Europe. Annual salary and benefits of the military are currently $146 billion per year, escalating with COLAs compounded at two to three percent annually, sometimes more. Some former U.S. military personnel are assumed to be fighting in Ukraine as mercenaries or helping direct the fighting from safe locations like Kiev or Lvov.

Then there are the civilian employees. According to the DoD, it employs more than 700,000 civilians “in an array of critical positions worldwide,” with compensation totaling about $70 billion. According to the Government Accountability Office, we may also add 560,000 contractor employees, whose compensation is typically higher than the career workforce.

We can also add hundreds of thousands of executives, managers, employees and contractors of the three-letter Deep State agencies, such as the CIA, NSA, DEA, FBI, and now DHS, etc., who interface with the MIC day in and day out and are part of the same fabric of state-sanctioned force and enemy identification and interdiction.

In the entire history of the world, we have never seen anything quite like this.

And the Military Industrial Complex absolutely loves Joe Biden, because he has promised to keep the war in Ukraine going “for as long as it takes”…

It is likely that billions of people around the world view the conflict in Ukraine as a proxy war being waged by the U.S. against Russia. US President Joe Biden has pledged to aid Ukraine’s pursuit of victory “for as long as it takes,” without defining what the end state might be. Russian President Vladimir Putin has interpreted U.S. intentions to mean a fight “to the last Ukrainian.”

Unfortunately, there is a problem. The Ukrainians are running out of warm bodies.

They have literally been grabbing men off the streets and throwing them into vans, but we didn’t care because it wasn’t our sons that were being forced to go to war.

Many Americans cheered when the Ukrainians began their ill-fated “counter-offensive”, but it turned out to be a disaster.

A senior U.S. intel official recently admitted to journalist Seymour Hersh that Ukraine has suffered approximately 75,000 casualties during this counter-offensive…

“There is no discussion in his headquarters or in the Biden White House of a ceasefire and no interest in talks that could lead to an end to the slaughter,” Hersh said.

Speaking of the Ukrainian claims of slow progress in an offensive that has lost an estimated 75,000 casualties, the official told Hersh: “It’s all lies.”

On many battlefields in Ukraine, there are unburied dead bodies just laying around all over the place.

The Russians have been mowing down wave after wave of Ukrainian men, and Hersh was told that there “is no Ukrainian offensive anymore”…

As the anniversary of the purported Biden Regime sabotage of the Nord Stream pipeline approaches Sept. 26, veteran investigative reporter Seymour Hersh blamed a ”secret disinformation operation“ by CIA and MI-6 for misleading the public about the disastrous state of the US-led war effort.

“The war is over. Russia has won. There is no Ukrainian offensive anymore, but the White House and the American media have to keep the lie going,“ a senior US intel official told Hersh. “The truth is if the Ukrainian army is ordered to continue the offensive, the army would mutiny. The soldiers aren’t willing to die any more, but this doesn’t fit the B.S. that is being authored by the Biden White House.”

Where do we go from here?

The Military Industrial Complex certainly does not want this conflict to end, and Joe Biden has no intention of backing down. So more warm bodies will be needed.

That is one of the reasons why there has been so much chatter about bringing back the draft here in the United States.

Recruitment has been way down in recent years, but our leaders desperately want to win this war with Russia and they also want to be ready to fight a war with China over Taiwan. And so the stage is being set to draft young American boys and young American girls into military service…

The most recent edition of the US Army War College’s academic journal includes a highly disturbing essay on what lessons the US military should take away from the continuing war in Ukraine. By far the most concerning and most relevant section for the average American citizen is a subsection entitled “Casualties, Replacements, and Reconstitutions” which, to cut right to the chase, directly states, “Large-scale combat operations troop requirements may well require a reconceptualization of the 1970s and 1980s volunteer force and a move toward partial conscription.”

The context for this supposed need to reinstate conscription is the estimate that were the US to enter into a large-scale conflict, every day it would likely suffer thirty-six hundred casualties and require eight hundred replacements, again per day. The report notes that over the course of twenty years in Iraq and Afghanistan, the US suffered fifty thousand casualties, a number which would likely be reached in merely two weeks of large-scale intensive combat.

The military is already facing an enormous recruiting shortfall. Last year the army alone fell short of its goal by fifteen thousand soldiers and is on track to be short an additional twenty thousand this year. On top of that, the report notes that the Individual Ready Reserve, which is composed of former service personnel who do not actively train and drill but may be called back into active service in the event they are needed, has dropped from seven hundred thousand in 1973 to seventy-six thousand now.

Do you want your children to be fed into a meat grinder on the other side of the globe?

If not, it is time to stand up and say something. Even now, large numbers of Americans are getting hurt fighting in Ukraine, and many of them are being treated at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany…

The US Army is giving medical care to wounded American fighters who volunteered for Ukraine’s foreign legion and other militias at a hospital in Germany.

This is happening with increasing frequency at the US Army’s Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany, a New York Times investigation found, which marks “a notable new step in the United States’ deepening involvement in the conflict,” as the report underscored.

It appears to be just a matter of time before we find ourselves in a full-blown shooting war with Russia, because both sides just continue to escalate matters. This week, it was being reported that Russia will increase defense spending by nearly 70 percent in 2024…

Russia said Thursday that it plans to raise defence spending by almost 70 percent next year, funnelling massive resources into its Ukraine offensive to fight what it calls a “hybrid war” unleashed by the West.

With Moscow’s “special military operation” now approaching another winter, both sides have been digging deep and procuring weapons from allies in preparation for a protracted conflict.

Many Americans consider the Russians to be just like the Nazis, but it turns out that the Russians also consider us to be just like the Nazis…

Dmitry Medvedev, Russia’s former president, warned that this would lead to a third world war, which would have greater consequences than World War II.

The 58-year-old politician also accused NATO of being like Nazi Germany and the Axis powers.

‘It seems that Russia is being left with fewer and fewer options but to come into direct conflict on the ground with NATO,’ he said.

The 74-year-old alliance ‘has become an openly fascist bloc like Hitler’s Axis, only bigger’, he claimed.

If the Nazis were around today, what would we do to them?

Needless to say, our leaders would be determined to utterly destroy them. Russian leaders would feel the same way. And so this makes pace almost impossible.

Here in the western world, our leaders will never be satisfied until Putin is gone and the nation of Russia is broken up into lots of little pieces.

On the other side, there is constant talk on Russian television about how the conflict in Ukraine will inevitably spark a global nuclear war.  So it should deeply alarm all of us that the Russians recently conducted large scale nuclear combat drills…

World War 3 fears have erupted once more after Vladimir Putin ordered thousands of troops from Russia’s nuclear missile force to run “combat readiness” exercises.

The combat drills took place in the Sverdlovsk region on Thursday and saw 3,000 Tagil Rocket Division soldiers being trained on the “highest degrees of combat readiness”, according to RadarOnline.com.

Video footage of the nuclear missile division’s combat drills was shown on the Russian defense ministry TV channel, Zvezda.

The clip shows thousands of soldiers training and Yars thermonuclear intercontinental ballistic missiles, feared throughout the world because of their massive 6,835-mile range.

We need to pull back from the brink before it is too late.

But our leaders won’t do that. They don’t want to upset the Military Industrial Complex. Unfortunately, we could also soon find ourselves in a war with China.

In fact, not too long ago a four-star general actually predicted that we will be at war with China in 2025…

The four-star general in charge of the US Air Force’s Air Mobility Command has defended a memo he sent to his officers earlier this year where he predicted the US would be at war with China in 2025.

“My assessment is that war is not inevitable, but the readiness I’m driving with that timeline is absolutely essential to deterrence and absolutely essential to the decisive victory,” Gen. Mike Minihan said last week when asked about his prediction, according to Defense One.

The moment that China invades Taiwan, there will be war between our two nations.

So in the not too distant future, we could literally be fighting Russia and China at the same time. And as I have been warning my readers for years, that is a really, really bad idea.

But it doesn’t matter what you or I think. The Military Industrial Complex wants to make even more money, and our politicians want to keep the campaign contributions rolling in.

So we will continue to speed toward a date with the unthinkable as the fate of our society hangs in the balance.

Michael’s new book entitled “End Times” is now available in paperback and for the Kindle on Amazon.com, and you can check out his new Substack newsletter right here.

]]> https://americanconservativemovement.com/the-military-industrial-complex-is-making-hundreds-of-billions-of-dollars-and-they-need-a-military-draft-in-the-u-s-to-take-things-to-the-next-level/feed/ 1 197245 The Nuclear War That We Have Been Relentlessly Warned About Is Now Right on Our Doorstep https://americanconservativemovement.com/the-nuclear-war-that-we-have-been-relentlessly-warned-about-is-now-right-on-our-doorstep/ https://americanconservativemovement.com/the-nuclear-war-that-we-have-been-relentlessly-warned-about-is-now-right-on-our-doorstep/#respond Sat, 28 Jan 2023 16:53:15 +0000 https://americanconservativemovement.com/?p=189509 Editor’s Commentary: It’s unfortunate that things not making sense in this nation and across the globe has become the normal state of affairs. We have gotten to the point that many have stopped even asking questions, particularly in conservative and alternative media where there are so many threats to report on, few know really where to start.

The situation in Ukraine with our involvement against Russia is one such circumstance that makes no sense. There seems to be at least three possible reasons we are getting so embedded, why actions that everyone agreed were insane just a few months ago are suddenly embraced by the vast majority in DC today. The first possible reason is the popular one: The Deep State and their cronies in the Military Industrial Complex are pressing for war with Russia to destabilize everything while printing money. Possible reason number two is that the Biden-Harris regime is playing for “victory” against Russia to improve their fortunes in the 2024 election. Reason number three, which I consider to be most likely despite most Americans thinking it’s not, is that the Powers and Principalities are intentionally or unwittingly setting up the end times scenarios of wars and rumors of wars.

This article by Michael Snyder hit my desk a couple of days ago but everything is still very relevant today. So many Americans, perhaps most, refuse to even acknowledge the possibility of WWIII starting any time soon. Maybe it’s denial. Maybe they’re just trying to be realistic and still believe cooler heads will prevail on the geopolitical stage. As much as I hate fearmongering, I hate leaving people unprepared far more. With that said, let’s hope and pray for the best while being ready as best we can be for the worst. Here’s Michael’s article…

Once the nukes start flying, there will be no going back.  So I hope that you all understand that we are playing for all the marbles here.  Sadly, our leaders don’t seem to get it.  They just keep escalating the conflict in Ukraine, and on the other side the Russians just keep escalating matters as well.  On Thursday, Russia responded to news that the U.S. and Germany would be giving highly advanced tanks to the Ukrainians by firing “a barrage of missiles and drones across the country”.  The Russians are now so invested in this war that there is no way that they could ever back down.  Of course the same thing is true for the Biden administration.  Joe Biden has staked his presidency on winning this war, and Congress has already approved approximately 100 billion dollars in total aid for the Ukrainians.  We are on a collision course with destiny, and the cataclysmic war with Russia that I have been warning about for many years is now right on our doorstep.

Donald Trump is warning that a worst case scenario is coming too.  On Thursday, he posted a message that instantly made headlines all over the world…

A Truth Social post from Trump on Thursday appeared to react to the recent wave of announcements on Western tank deliveries.

“FIRST COME THE TANKS, THEN COME THE NUKES. Get this crazy war ended, NOW. So easy to do!” Trump wrote.

He is quite correct.

We must end this war before the nukes start flying.

And actually Joe Biden once warned that we would be facing “World War 3” if we ever sent tanks into Ukraine.

But now the Biden administration is trying to assure us that sending tanks into Ukraine is perfectly fine.

Look, at this point we are providing more funding for the war in Ukraine than everyone else combined, more military equipment for the war in Ukraine than everyone else combined, more ammunition for the war in Ukraine than everyone else combined, and more military intelligence for the war in Ukraine than everyone else combined.

In addition, we are regularly flying Ukrainians into this country for training.

Once their training is done, they are sent to the front lines where many of them will soon die. Sadly, as long as it isn’t our boys and girls that are dying on the plains of eastern Ukraine, most Americans are simply not going to care.

But the truth is that this has become our war, and the Russians understand this very clearly…

“There are constant statements from European capitals and Washington that the sending of various weapons systems to Ukraine, including tanks, in no way signifies the involvement of these countries or the alliance in hostilities in Ukraine,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters.

“We categorically disagree with this, and in Moscow, everything that the alliance and the capitals I mentioned are doing is seen as direct involvement in the conflict. We see that this is growing.”

Over and over again, the Russians have threatened us with nuclear weapons, but for some reason we are not taking those warnings seriously.

This week, the head of Russia’s lower house of parliament wrote something that should send a chill up all of our spines…

The head of Russia’s State Duma has said that the promised deliveries of additional weapons to Kyiv by Western countries could heighten the war in Ukraine to a new level that could result in a “global catastrophe.”

Vyacheslav Volodin wrote on his Telegram channel on January 22 that “if Washington and NATO countries supply weapons that will be used to strike civilian cities and attempt to seize our territories…this will lead to retaliatory measures using more powerful weapons.”

The comments by the head of Russia’s lower house of parliament were broadly taken to mean nuclear weapons, and he has now joined other high-ranking Russian officials who have recently threatened a significant escalation of the unprovoked war the Kremlin launched against Ukraine 11 months ago.

But the Biden administration can’t back down now.

Biden has essentially pushed all of his chips into the middle of the table and is betting everything that this war will be a success…

Biden has pinned his legacy on a major land war in Europe in which the United States has engaged in an effective proxy battle with nuclear rival Russia. This fight – which is, in a way, the last battle of the Cold War – is a test of will between an American president and a Kremlin strongman deeply influenced by the US-Soviet standoff. Biden is leading the most significant foreign policy venture at least since the invasion of Iraq in 2003. Its success is critical for America’s credibility as well as his own. The magnitude of the mission is likely to overshadow much of the rest of his presidency – including the current investigation into misplaced classified documents – in world history.

So more escalations are inevitably coming.

It is time for the American people to face the truth.  We are at war, and there is no way out.

Recently, an extremely long line of tanks was spotted rolling across Kansas.

https://twitter.com/FinanceLancelot/status/1618039724870086657

Scenes such as this will become increasingly common in the days ahead. If the American people truly understood what was at stake, there would be massive protests in every major U.S. city right now. But they don’t understand what is at stake.

We are literally closer to nuclear annihilation than we have ever been in our entire history, and the Russians have actually been preparing for such a scenario for decades.

Unfortunately, the backbone of the U.S. strategic nuclear arsenal is still made up of hopelessly outdated Minuteman missiles that first went into service back in the 1970s.

Would you want to use a computer or a phone from the 1970s? Well, then why would we want to fight a nuclear war with missiles from the 1970s?

But instead of addressing that glaring need, the Pentagon is gearing up for conventional wars on multiple fronts, and this is making U.S. arms manufacturers very happy…

The Post also notes the budget proposal does far more than that: “It lays the foundation for a vastly revitalised defence industrial base – and does so with one eye on the People’s Republic of China.” 25 new mass-assembly lines will soon roll out weapons quantities “far in excess of what is required to replenish Ukraine.” 700 HIMARS systems are ordered vs. the 20 sent to aid Kyiv, and 3,600 of two kinds of anti-ship missile, more appropriate for the South China than the Black Sea.

One way or another, the military industrial complex always seems to win.

But if a nuclear war erupts, there will be no winners. Only losers.

Joe Biden and his minions are assuring us that the war in Ukraine can be won without nuclear weapons ever being used by either side.

Do you believe them?

Hopefully they are correct, because if their gamble fails it will literally mean the end of civilization as we know it today.

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]]> https://americanconservativemovement.com/the-nuclear-war-that-we-have-been-relentlessly-warned-about-is-now-right-on-our-doorstep/feed/ 0 189509 Globalist Grifter Volodymyr Zelensky Lands Unearned Epic Gig Headlining the TOP U.S. Defense Industry Conference https://americanconservativemovement.com/globalist-grifter-volodymyr-zelensky-lands-unearned-epic-gig-headlining-the-top-u-s-defense-industry-conference/ https://americanconservativemovement.com/globalist-grifter-volodymyr-zelensky-lands-unearned-epic-gig-headlining-the-top-u-s-defense-industry-conference/#respond Sat, 10 Sep 2022 01:16:42 +0000 https://americanconservativemovement.com/?p=180550 Imagine having as your sole purpose the swindling of money from other nations to fund a futile war effort, knowing the money won’t be traced and most will find its way into the pockets of oligarchs and globalist elites. Now, imagine the governments you’re trying to swindle openly supporting the con. If you can see it all clearly, you’re understanding the world of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

And his job just got a whole lot easier thanks to the Military Industrial Complex embracing his con as they are wont to do. According to The Hill:

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will address U.S. defense contractors later this month when he headlines the annual Future Force Capabilities Conference and Exhibition hosted by the National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA).

Zelensky is scheduled to speak at the event Sept. 21, according to the program for the event available on the NDIA’s website. Oleksii Reznikov, Ukraine’s minister of defense, is also scheduled to speak that day.

News of the appearances was first reported by Reuters, which noted that the officials will speak via video link. Zelensky is expected to appeal for more weapons for his country during his speech, the outlet added.

News of the Ukrainian president’s speech to the NDIA — whose membership includes defense industry giants like Raytheon Technologies, Lockheed Martin and General Dynamics — comes as Kyiv looks to fend off Russia’s invasion as it drags through its sixth month.

Meanwhile, the Ukrainian people are stuck between an aggressive Russian invasion force and a corrupt Ukrainian government who is using them as financial human shields to prolong their money-laundering efforts.

Conservatives on social media reacted to the news of Zelensky landing the sweet gig:

Ukraine represents a taxpayer black hole through which the Military Industrial Complex can dump its products. Swindler-in-Chief Volodymyr Zelensky is the ideal representative of the Deep State, globalist elites, and grifters across the globe.

]]> https://americanconservativemovement.com/globalist-grifter-volodymyr-zelensky-lands-unearned-epic-gig-headlining-the-top-u-s-defense-industry-conference/feed/ 0 180550 The Military Industrial Complex Is Going to Absolutely Love It When War With China Erupts https://americanconservativemovement.com/the-military-industrial-complex-is-going-to-absolutely-love-it-when-war-with-china-erupts/ https://americanconservativemovement.com/the-military-industrial-complex-is-going-to-absolutely-love-it-when-war-with-china-erupts/#respond Thu, 28 Jul 2022 01:52:52 +0000 https://americanconservativemovement.com/?p=177134 George Orwell once said that “war against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it”, and he was right on target.  War is enormously profitable, but once the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan ended the military industrial complex needed a new cash cow.  So now we have the war in Ukraine, and we are being told that it could go on for years.  Life is good again for the big arms manufacturers, but it could be even better.  A war with China would cause military spending to soar to unprecedented heights that we have never been before, and we are getting closer to such a conflict with each passing day.

But before I get to that, let me start by taking a look at the impact that the war in Ukraine is having.  The Biden administration is asking for a whopping 802 billion dollars in defense spending for the upcoming fiscal year, but it looks like Congress is going to give him about 850 billion dollars instead…

While lawmakers haven’t struck a deal yet on spending for the coming fiscal year, increases backed by the armed services committees point to national defense spending that could approach or exceed $850 billion, versus the $802 billion Biden requested.

Rep. Anthony Brown (D-Md.), a House Armed Services Committee member who voted in favor of the topline increase, noted the swiftness of the deliberation over the topline. “In the committee, there was almost no debate,” he said.

With the war in Ukraine being so trendy, there is very little appetite on either side of the aisle for a battle over such reckless spending.

So more money than ever is going to be flowing to the military industrial complex, and those that are raking in the cash couldn’t be happier.

For example, every single Javelin missile that is used in Ukraine costs approximately $78,000…

Washington is sending 6,500 Javelin anti-tank missile systems, which are made by Raytheon and Lockheed Martin. The cost of each missile is about $78,000 (£66,000) and the reusable launcher is another $100,000 (£85,000). Ukraine will receive more of the systems from France and Estonia, with another 200 coming from the UK.

Unfortunately for the Ukrainians, it turns out that the Javelins don’t work very well against Russian tanks.

But we are going to keep sending them even more Javelins because they are hugely profitable.

Stinger anti-aircraft missiles are more effective, and Raytheon has been given a fresh 625 million dollar contract for more of them…

Another boon for Raytheon will come from the US decision to send 1,400 Stinger anti-aircraft missile launchers. The company has already been awarded a $625m (£494m) contract to replenish the stocks. Germany is giving Ukraine 500 of the systems and more are coming from Denmark, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania and the Netherlands.

War is a racket, and it is making a lot of people a whole lot of money.

Unsurprisingly, that even includes some members of Congress…

Some members of Congress stand to personally profit off Russia’s war on Ukraine.

At least 20 federal lawmakers or their spouses hold stock in Raytheon Technologies and Lockheed Martin, which manufacture the weapons Western allies are sending Ukraine to fight Russian invaders, according to an Insider analysis of federal financial records.

So when these members of Congress vote for more military spending, it is making them even wealthier.

There is something very wrong with that picture.

And it looks like everyone involved with be laughing all the way to the bank for a long time to come.  In April, a group of leaders from the top arms manufacturers in the country was told by the Pentagon that the war in Ukraine could last for “years”…

The Pentagon will host leaders from the top eight U.S. weapons manufacturers on Wednesday to discuss the industry’s capacity to meet Ukraine’s weapons needs if the war with Russia lasts years, two people familiar with the meeting said on Tuesday.

Demand for weapons has shot up after Russia’s invasion on Feb. 24 spurred U.S. and allied weapons transfers to Ukraine. Resupplying as well as planning for a longer war is expected to be discussed at the meeting, the sources told Reuters on condition of anonymity.

You would think that would be enough to satisfy the military industrial complex for a while.

But why have just one war when you can have two instead?

The Biden administration has been relentlessly provoking China for months, and this week persistent rumors that Nancy Pelosi will soon visit Taiwan have prompted furious remarks from Chinese officials.  Here is one example…

“If the US side insists on making the visit, the Chinese side will take firm and strong measures to safeguard our sovereignty and territorial integrity,” Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson Zhao Lijian said.

“The U.S. must assume full responsibility for any serious consequence arising thereof,” Lijian added.

Those are very strong words.

On Twitter, one of China’s most famous journalists was even more blunt…

Hu Xijin, the retired editor of the state-backed newspaper Global Times, went further.

“If the U.S. can’t restrain her, let China restrain her & punish her,” he wrote on Twitter. “[The Chinese] Air Force will surely make her visit a disgrace to herself and to the U.S.”

Most Americans don’t realize that this could be a real turning point.

The Pentagon is pledging to do whatever is necessary to protect Pelosi on her trip, and the Chinese are reportedly threatening to impose a no-fly zone over Taiwan in response…

“If there’s a decision made that Speaker Pelosi or anyone else is going to travel and they asked for military support, we will do what is necessary to ensure a safe conduct of their visit,” Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley told the AP. “And I’ll just leave it at that.”

Officials declined to provide specifics but said measures could include fighter jets, ships and surveillance equipment to create redundant shields around Pelosi. China threatened to impose a no-fly zone over Taiwan if Pelosi visits and has dispatched warplanes into Taiwan’s claimed air defense identification zone, CNN reported, as a possible countermeasure.

I really hope that China does not do this.

Imposing a no-fly zone over Taiwan would be an act of war, and the Biden administration would inevitably escalate matters in response.

Meanwhile, the Chinese military continues to deepen ties with the Russian military…

The Chinese military is sending a delegation of troops and military vehicles to participate in a series of military competitions in Russia next month.

On Tuesday, the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) announced its delegation of troops participating in the 2022 International Army Games (IAG) in Russia had departed by train from the Chinese Inner Mongolian city of Manzhouli, on its way to the city of Zabaikalsk in Russia’s southeast. The Chinese delegation left for China along with vehicles for the “Masters of Armored Vehicles” and “Tank Biathlon” competitions.

Could we eventually see a global war with the United States on one side and Russia and China on the other?

There is something about all of this that sounds awfully familiar.

If they are not extremely careful, our leaders could soon cross lines that will never be able to be uncrossed.

I have always said that all politicians should be forced to fight in the wars that they start, because if that was the case there would be a whole lot less wars.

Just look at Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. While other Ukrainian men are literally being dragged out of their homes and sent to the eastern front to die, Zelensky is doing photo shoots for magazines such as Vogue.

I would love to see Putin, Zelenskyy, Biden and all of the other politicians involved in starting this war be forced to serve on the front lines in eastern Ukraine.

It is often said that war is hell, and what is going on in eastern Ukraine right now is a tremendous tragedy.

Unfortunately, more war is on the horizon, and all of us will pay a very great price for the recklessness of a few.

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