Comments by "Jim Luebke" (@jimluebke3869) on "Larry Fink u0026 George Soros: Are They Destroying America?" video.

  1. Pat, you don't need wars to make money as a defense contractor. You want fear of war. In fact, if Putin fell tomorrow and Russia became best friends with everyone in their neighborhood, where do you think that would leave the defense contractors? On the other hand, if suddenly he sued for peace and stayed in power, wouldn't every single country in the region still flock to the United States to get the latest and greatest defense systems? Nah man, you don't want your customers dead. Dead people don't have any money. You don't want them at war either, you want their economies humming along and their tax revenues piling up, so they can spend that tax money on those high-value (high margin!) defense systems. You know what the margins on ammunition are? They're cr*p. Actual shooting war is a low-margin activity. War sucks, man. And you really think defense contractors are better off when their customers' countries are rubble? Pat, you want to be paid in rubble? It doesn't help when they borrow the money either. England and France borrowed the money for those world wars. For a while it was fun getting the English to give us all their military bases. Eventually they had to shut down the empire to pay us back. What is the United States going to have to shut down, to pay off the national debt we're building up because of these wars (and our huge unsustainable domestic spending?) And you're a smart guy, you probably know what happened when they tried to collect reparations from their enemies to pay off those debts. It got to the point that the United States just said, "to h*ll with all of you, we're just going to rebuild you and you're not going to fight anymore." No joke Pat, war isn't all it's cracked up to be. Defense contractors need healthy and prosperous customers as much as anybody.
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