W.J. Astore
$95 Billion for More War, Weapons, and Death
Surprise! The House has approved $95 billion in more weapons and war for Ukraine and Israel, along with a few billion tossed in for Taiwan. Ukraine gets the lion’s share of the aid, roughly $61 billion, while Israel gets roughly $26 billion, which is $12 billion more than the Biden administration initially asked for.
Imagine that! $26 billion for Israel as it slaughters Palestinians in Gaza. America is led by moral monsters and mental midgets.
I predicted months ago (not a tough prediction) that Republicans would eventually cave and support Ukraine. In this election year, they don’t want to be blamed for “losing” the Russia-Ukraine War. Even though the war is going poorly for Ukraine, the answer is never to negotiate or deescalate, it’s always to escalate with even more destructive weaponry. Of course, this is justified by America’s moral monsters and mental midgets (M4 for short) by saying Putin is evil and that jobs will be created in America among the arsenal-producing merchants of death.
There was a time, World War II to be exact, when it made a smidgen of sense to call America the “Arsenal of Democracy.” Those days are long gone. America is now simply an arsenal.
Of course, this is yet another triumph for the MICIMATT: the military-industrial-congressional-intelligence-media-academe-think-tank complex. Its power and greed are almost irresistible. Add that to AIPAC, threat inflation, and fear-mongering and perhaps it is irresistible until the U.S. empire final collapses under the weight of its own folly.
But let me give the last word to my smarter wife, who upon hearing of yet another $95 billion for war put it succinctly: “All that money to kill people.” Then she added: they are the planet-wreckers.
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Profoundly astute and accurate, near-terminally depressing commentary. Thank you, Mrs. Astore, and your valiant husband.
What shall we do about this Amerika? I haven’t a clue as to how to even begin to right its wrongs. One possibility that is essential beyond adequate words: End the pernicious, malign, cancerous influence of the Colonial Zionist/Israeli Lobby a it reigns supreme over our body politic and foreign affairs…but that’s a task in itself of monstrous, probably insurmountable proportions.
I nonetheless must repeat, and repeat at every venue, every opportunity: Viva Hamas and ALL of Falasteen! Aaron Bushnell, you will not be forgotten: Rest In Power!
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I noticed the following from The Lever and thought BV would be a perfect place to pass on the information…
“For nearly three decades, the Department of Defense has used taxpayer money to send elite military officers to work for some of the Pentagon’s top private contractors. The public-private arrangement has allowed corporate lobbying disguised as policy recommendations to reach the highest branches of the Defense Department, according to an exclusive report from the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft shared with The Lever...”
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