U.S. Capitalism and Why the Glut of "Wonder Weapons" to Ukraine Will Not Make a Difference by Finian Cunningham!
(2023-08-16 at 01:22:10 )

U.S. Capitalism and Why the Glut of "Wonder Weapons" to Ukraine Will Not Make a Difference by Finian Cunningham!

It is slowly and reluctantly dawning on Western officials and their servile media that the Ukraine counteroffensive is failing. Not only the two-month-old counteroffensive but indeed the entire conflict. Ukraine has not a chance of prevailing against Russias superior forces.

Still, the violence and killing go on. No diplomacy, peace, or sanity. Why??

Only a couple of months ago, the Western media were full of bravado claims that the United States and NATOs weapons and training would turn the tide for a "stunning victory" against Russia. Today, those same media are meekly reporting on a "grinding counteroffensive" (Washington Post, New York Times, CNN) and "failed expectations" (London Times).

How to explain the glaring conundrum? The United States and its European NATO allies have supplied the Kiev regime with up to $100 billion worth of weaponry over the past year, ranging from battlefield tanks to Patriot missiles. And the military gifts keep coming, with the Biden administration requesting another $12 billion for Ukraine last week. In the coming months, the United States and its allies are planning to supply F-16 fighter jets.

And yet all this mind-boggling largesse will not make a difference to the outcome of an eventual Russian victory. Tens of thousands more Ukrainian soldiers will be killed of course and a wider all-out nuclear war with Russia is a reprehensible risk. But why does the insanity continue?? Why are Western politicians and media not exploring diplomatic alternatives to the endless slaughter??

A fundamental reason for this debacle and ultimate scandal is the inherent vice of United States militarism. American militarism and that of other Western capitalist states is not about the conventional understanding of "military" or "defense" for the purpose of defending nations, or indeed for actually winning wars. The primary purpose of American and Western militarism is to make profits for private corporations, the military-industrial complex!!

Typically, the weapons are vastly overpriced, overhyped and designed for perpetual consumption. Take the United States-made Patriot air-defense system, or the Abrams tank, or the F-35 fighter jets. Independent military analysts will tell you these systems are overpriced junk that do not really do the job they are supposed to do. Russian forces have been wiping out the Patriot and Western tanks with relative ease using superior hypersonic weapons.

Michael Hudson, the respected geopolitical commentator and author of the book "Superimperialism", nails it when he observes that United States militarism is not about essentially defending that nation or its allies - it is all about corporate profiteering. The weapons created by the United States military-industrial complex are not purposed for the conventional definition of military performance, that is to knock out the enemy and win battles.

"The arms are for creating huge profit for the United States military-industrial complex," commented Hudson in a recent interview with Steven Grumbine.

In the case of Ukraine, he added, United States and NATO weapons "are for buying, and they are for giving to the Ukrainians, to let Russia blow them up. But they are not for fighting. They are not for winning a war. They are for being used up, so you have to replace them now, with yet new buying."

The conflict in Ukraine is exposing the long-held hype and charade attached to American and NATO weaponry. It is being brutally outed as a paper tiger.

What Hudson is describing, in effect, is the utter scam and scandal of the United States-led proxy war in Ukraine against Russia. It is on a level of Catch-22-style farce. It is a racket for profiteering by United States and Western military industries. All paid for by taxpayers in the West and with the blood of Ukrainians blown to smithereens or maimed for life.

Fundamentally, this is what United States and Western capitalism is all about. The economic system for elite private profit is driven by militarism and global exports of arms. Western capitalism has long abandoned civilian industrial production and over the last few decades has become dominated by the military-industrial complex that owns politicians, media and lawmakers to do its bidding.

The war in Ukraine was instigated by NATO expansionism and strategic threat to Russia over many years. Moscows warnings were habitually dismissed. That was part of the showdown demanded by the United States executive of Western imperialism to subjugate Russia as a geopolitical rival, in the same way that China is also targeted.

But in addition to that came the ultimate racket of funneling weapons to Ukraine. Not only that, but the European lackeys will now be obliged to stock up their depleted arsenals for decades to come by buying from Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, Boeing, and so on. It is a perfectly rigged system.

By contrast, Russias military is designed to actually defend its nation. Russian weapons are outperforming NATOs junk in Ukraine because the former are not manufactured for private profit and Wall Street investors but for the purpose of actually winning wars.

That is why Ukraine is losing this conflict, disastrously and despicably. The weapons funneled to the Kiev regime were never meant to "defend a nation from Russian aggression". That was just the laughable public relations hype to sell expensive weapons funded by Western taxpayers. Of course, the Nazi Kiev regime has milked the cash cow with corruption, but the bigger problem is the war racket at the rotten heart of United States capitalism and its military-industrial complex!!

The Ukrainian puppet president Vladimir Zelensky is crying for more weapons. Of course, the corrupt Kiev regime is. Biden and Western politicians are calling for more weapons. Of course, they are.

Their political funding depends on lobbyists from the weapons companies. The Western media distort the obscenity as "grinding counteroffensive". Of course, they do because they are locked into their own self-serving lies about the war in Ukraine!!

The corrupt Kiev regime rounds up civilians to be sent to a slaughterhouse while United States corporations and Wall Street feast on profits!!

And Western workers and the public are bled white from austerity! This war in Ukraine is the ghoulish epitome of Western capitalism!!

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