As America lurches from one military debacle to the next, who profits from all this disaster?

If you know America, you’ll know nothing happens unless somebody makes a buck on it. America has been lurching from one military fiasco to the next for well over fifty years by now, and you know that wouldn’t keep happening if nobody was trousering wads of cash off all these disasters. Let’s take a look at how the big military contractors have fared out since just before the WOT (War on Terror) set America on the path of endless war after 9/11. Boeing was under forty bucks in January of 2000. In spite of years of bad news on their civilian side, what with their airplanes falling out of the sky on a regular basis, it’s still up over 400%. General Dynamics has gone up well over 1000%, from twenty bucks to $250. Lockheed Martin is up over 2000%, from twenty bucks to $460. Northrup Grumman is likewise up almost 2000%. Get the general direction we’re going here? In every case, the majority owners are a handful of hedge funds, led by Blackrock, Vanguard, and State Street. Given that America hasn’t won a war since 1945, what is it that keeps these war stocks climbing? There’s an elaborate think-tank network, lavishly funded by the war profiteers, that steers American policy inexorably towards more war. What’s doubly disturbing; the overpriced products of the US military-industrial machine don’t seem to meet the standards of… North Korea? You’re dealing with a closed loop; a veritable “perpetual motion” machine. As long as the experts at the think-tanks and the lobbyists can bribe and cajole the elected representatives into more war, the gravy train will keep chugging along.