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Warmongering Pays - US Foreign Arms Sales Soar 35%
If ever there was a clearer indication of America's "need for war" it was the latest Durable Goods orders data, which confirmed, absent defense spending, the US economy is in a tail-spin. However, as NYTimes reports, foreign arms sales by the United States jumped by almost $10 billion in 2014, about 35 percent, even as the global weapons market remained flat and competition among suppliers increased, thanks to multibillion-dollar agreements with Qatar, Saudi Arabia and South Korea.
Defense Spending New Orders has soared 148% in the last 3 months... the biggest rise since 2007
But it is the US arms sales to foreigners that is really flourising. Despite a stagnant international weapons market and increased competition among suppliers, American foreign weapons receipts rose from $26.7 billion to $36.2 billion last year. According to a new congressional report, as The NY Times reports...
The United States remained the single largest provider of arms around the world last year, controlling just over 50 percent of the market.
Russia followed the United States as the top weapons supplier, completing $10.2 billion in sales, compared with $10.3 billion in 2013. Sweden was third, with roughly $5.5 billion in sales, followed by France with $4.4 billion and China with $2.2 billion.
South Korea, a key American ally, was the world’s top weapons buyer in 2014, completing $7.8 billion in contracts. It has faced continued tensions with neighboring North Korea in recent years over the North’s nuclear weapons program and other provocations. The bulk of South Korea’s purchases, worth more than $7 billion, were made with the United States and included transport helicopters and related support, as well as advanced unmanned aerial surveillance vehicles.
Iraq followed South Korea, with $7.3 billion in purchases intended to build up its military in the wake of the American troop withdrawal there.
Brazil, another developing nation building its military force, was third with $6.5 billion worth of purchase agreements, primarily for Swedish aircraft.
The report to Congress found that total global arms sales rose slightly in 2014 to $71.8 billion, from $70.1 billion in 2013. Despite that increase, the report concluded that “the international arms market is not likely growing over all,” because of “the weakened state of the global economy.”
So, as has been explained so many times ad nauseum that even the most hawkish warmongerer cannot avoid it, the truth is, America (well it's corporatocracy) has a 3-step plan to make money...
Step 1: Put on Pants
Step 2: Start Warmongery in Middle-East
Step 3: Reap Rewards
Of course, this is hardly news, as Ron Paul told RT:
Seen from the proper angle, the dollar is revealed to be a paper thin instrument of warfare, a ripple effect on the people, a twisted illusion, a weaponized money now engaged in a covert economic warfare that threatens their very livelihood.
The former Congressman and presidential candidate explained:
Almost all wars have been paid for through inflation… the practice always ends badly as currency becomes debased leading to upward pressure on prices.
“Almost all wars, in a hundred years or so, have been paid for through inflation, that is debasing the currency,” he said, adding that this has been going on “for hundreds, if not thousands of years.”
“I don’t know if we ever had a war paid though tax payers. The only thing where they must have been literally paid for, was when they depended on the looting. They would go in and take over a country, and they would loot and take their gold, and they would pay for the war.”
As inflation has debased the currency, other shady Wall Street tactics have driven Americans into a corner, overwhelmed with debt, and gamed by rigged markets in which Americans must make a living. The economic prosperity, adjusted for the kind of reality that doesn’t factor into government reports, can’t match the costs of a military industrial complex that has transformed society into a domestic police state, and slapped Americans with the bill for their own enslavement.
Dr. Paul notes the mutual interest in keeping the lie going for as long as the public can stand it… and as long as the gravy keeps rolling in:
They’re going to continue to finance all these warmongering, and letting the military industrial complex to make a lot of money, before it’s admitted that it doesn’t work, and the whole system comes down because of the debt burden, which would be unsustainable.”
Unsustainable might be putting it lightly. The entire thing is in shambles from the second the coyote looks down and sees that he’s run out over a cliff.
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#ISIS uses US weapons. Highly recommended as a supplier. Would buy again.
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How some of this works:
You would think Iraq is spending their own oil money to buy US military equip?
Think Foreign Aid which includes Military Assistance like this:
“Foreign Military Financing refers to congressionally appropriated grants given to foreign governments to finance the purchase of American-made weapons, services and training.”
How much do taxpayers pay:
https://www.nationalpriorities.org/cost-of/foreign-military-assistance/
“The majority of US international assistance spending related to Afghanistan, Iraq, and Pakistan is for military or security purposes rather than economic and social development.” (Watson Institute)
http://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/costs/economic/budget/foreign
We are not subsidizing MIC we (taxpayers) are buying it straight out by channeling the money through foreign militaries and DOD for a fee.
But when working in the EU, ISIS prefers to switch to AK-47s, lest the AR-15s get a bad wrap, the AR's get traced to another Fast & Furious operation, and they too might get included in a Presidential Executive Order.
/s
Isn't ISIS like the epitome of the Free Shit Army in this case? We were air dropping them pallets of weapons that I'm assuming they didn't pay anything for. I suppose that's how we keep the game going though.
US Foreign Arms Sales Soar 35% as traitors in the Homeland try to disarm their own citizens.
https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/4269/text
to bad the people wont overthrow the government now........but what do you expect from a nation of people to stupid to realize the affordable care act is a tax........if the average american does not understand what a tax is there is no way they can understand a covert take over of their country...........i bet the average american is so dumb that even when they are in a fema camp getting ready to be executed they still want understand what has been going on.............it is really fucking sad.......what makes it worse is when you are a guy like me who knows some of the people on the inside and they like to clue you off to when there will be shootings and there is nothing you can do but run your fucking keyboard.;..............
This.
I want to live a long life but increasingly, I have noticed that each day is a new hell to put up with more and more nonsense.
Fuck earth.
Its a beautiful planet but marred by human excrement.
There is a Lamborghini dealership on Route 28 (ground zero for Beltway bandits) not far from Dulles airport. Last year a buddy of mine took his son there to check out the cars. The salesman on duty struck up a chat with him, and told him that their shop had sold 110 Lambos in the previous year. Of those, over 75% had been sold to defense contractors.
"r. Of those, over 75% had been sold to defense contractors."
God bless 'merica!
Trump for world war threee!
How is it you make a connection from the establishment of weapons sellers to Trump? You're an idiot
They should be taxed heavily to help pay for the damages to civilian towns and infrastructures. That way, they will have less power in lobbying for more wars.
Hearing Ron talk about the fallacy of an economy being improved by war and how it may decrease unemployment to some extent in exchange for dead men, makes me wonder if unemployment preceding a war actually helps prevent large scale refusals/rebellion from drafted men.
It's alot easier to take a guy from unemployment into a war than from a good job and stable home to war. Not sure if it is worth it to them to actually cause unemployment preceding a war to affect such an outcome but it probably has been theorized and discussed by these pricks.
"makes me wonder if unemployment preceding a war actually helps prevent large scale refusals/rebellion from drafted men.
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Congratulations missy you finally have awoken to reality for a second or two!
I don't expect it to last (due to estrogen), but congrats all the same!
You are a step ahead of 99% of your sisters!
Step 1: Foment unrest worldwide
Step 2: Sell arms to all sides
Step 3: Profit
Rinse, repeat.
God bless 'merica!
Don't forget China, Russia, France, Germany etc...selling weapons, supplies and whatever else you have to warring factions is as old as mankind...
They should start selling to American citizens. Think of all the money they'd make.
It's my right to own a TOW missile, damnit!
I Konkur with that statement
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6J5THvycYTc
9M113 Konkurs Missile Hits Takfiri Vehicle In Idlib
Daeshing through the sand,
Shooting all the way,
Over the Syrians we ran,
Killing every day.
Turkey buying our oil,
Making our numbers grow,
We're fighting on Syrian soil,
While Bammy says 'I didn't know!'
Jingle bombs, jingle bombs,
Bomb the Middle East.
Oh what fun it is to bring,
Regime. Change. At. The. Leeeeast...
"Daeshing through the sand," LOL!
Wish I had a country so I could buy the good stuff.
I hear there is a vacancy for the head of the ISIS Caliphate. Just claim to be 'moderate' and you are good to go.
Spreading thru Democracy thru wars. How convinenet and quaint one must say. More Yellow Ribbons to fool the masses.
Next time do not thank the folks who fight the oigarchy wars, they are too fucking dumb to think and to think they are allowed to breed.
US Democracy in action
http://www.e-news.su/uploads/posts/2015-12/1451213242_e-news.su_cvrhftdu...
Or as seen through the eyes of the US government
http://imgur.com/nAwo5S2
One way to boost sales is to take the products off the production line, sell them to the government who immediately shreds them. So... What I don't understand is why the vehicles that ISIS use are Toyotas.
Reliability, and Worldwide familiarity and parts availability? Just a guess...
Most Toyotas used by Isis are manufactured in the US and Mexico. They are efficient and reliable and not quite so blatant.
And those foreign buyers aren't paying for American weapons with a cheap POS dollar.
They're paying through the nose with a very overpriced dollar.
Speaking of which, Israel continues to get their discount plus a double coupon markdown.
"Speaking of which, Israel continues to get their discount plus a double coupon markdown. "
That's outrageous. Israel deserves a triple coupon markdown, if not more.
Yes and weapons manufacturers now have live targets to practice on at will.
Arm the taliban with some guns and rockets and then drone strike the fuck out of them to test new software releases.
Helps with satellite network testing.
Arms supplies
or
Pentagon gifting away billions of $ arms to terrorists
and calling it as Arms sales
fudging the books
"The time to buy is when there's blood in the streets."
You bet your ass. And its the warmongers in congress that benefit just as well because as they promote the perpetual war, the MIC rewards them handsomely with MASSIVE political campaign donations.
Taypayers have to spend money before it comes back in, in the form of PAC donations.
That c*cksucker McCain has ridden the tidal wave of MIC campaign donations for decades.