Foreign Affairs

And I certainly support the strongest possible opposition to Putin's invasion.

But at a macro level, people like Putin, Netanyahu, Trump and others all over the world are pressured every day by the MFers who profit from all this war-making.

In 2024 alone, the US sent almost $120,000,000,000 of military gear to other countries (including Ukraine) under the Foreign Military Sales and the Presidential Drawdown Authority. These programs are pushed hard by the global arms merchants to give the Pentagon a rationale to hit the American taxpayers for hundreds of billions each year to replace that "obsolete" gear.

I put "obsolete" in quotes, because in most cases they are replacing obsolete equipment with newer equipment that is still obsolete. If the Ukraine resistance has shown us anything, it is that 90% of the money we spend on weapons systems would have been dandy in 1950, but are practically useless in the warfare of 2025.

I agree that may not be exactly the scenario described in this case, but it is important to keep in mind the tails that wag the dogs at the global level.