So, support war because the money goes to defense contractors’ bottom line and boosts their employees and the areas where their plants are located. From Tyler Durden at zerohedge.com:
With prior narratives increasingly incapable of sustaining Americans’ enthusiasm for pouring weapons into the West’s proxy war in Ukraine, the Biden administration is now using a pitch that’s both refreshingly and appallingly honest: promoting the Ukraine war as a way to enrich the U.S. arms industry and its employees.
The new angle comes after Americans have been subjected to a succession of pitches aimed at selling a war that’s utterly irrelevant to U.S. security interests. We’ve been variously told the war is necessary to defend democracy, to deter Putin’s aggression, to degrade Russia’s army, and even to deter China from invading Taiwan. With support for the war sagging across the political spectrum — and a growing number of Republican legislators saying enough is enough — the propaganda machine is increasingly grasping at straws
We got our first taste of the new cash-centric, Keynesian war-pitch in Biden’s prime-time Oval Office address last week, which was aimed at selling a $106 billion funding request that will furnish more aid to Ukraine and Israel, with other vote-getting goodies thrown in.
