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by Adam Dick

https://ronpaulinstitute.org/us-secretary-of-state-antony-blinken-says-keep-the-ukraine-war-going-so-the-military-industrial-complex-can-employ-more-people/

Forget about stopping the purported evil despot Vladimir Putin intent on taking over all of Europe and maybe the rest of the world. Forget about helping — try to keep a straight face on this one — the democracy and freedom supporting nation of Ukraine. United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken was out last week promoting a new reason to continue supporting the Ukraine War — ensuring there are more American jobs in the military-industrial complex.

Speaking Thursday in a joint press conference with Britain Foreign Secretary David Cameron, Blinken propounded as follows:

If you look at the investments that we made in Ukraine’s defense to deal with this aggression, 90 percent of the security assistance we provided has actually been spent here in the United States with our manufacturers, with our production, and that’s produced more American jobs, more growth in our own economy. So this has also been a win-win that we need to continue.

There are a few problems with that statement.

First, Blinken is promoting pursuing war for profit. This is a low to which American warmongers have usually not dared to stoop — at least in public pronouncements.

Second, this government spending for war is not investment, despite Blinken’s labeling it as such. Instead, it is the spending of taxes paid into the US government or of money newly created by decree that reduces the value of Americans’ earnings and actual investments. “Theft” is a better descriptor of the activity Blinken touts than is “investment.”

Third, Blinken here is basically admitting that the Ukraine War funding is a boondoggle benefiting special interests.

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