(Briefly - what is the business of America? WAR! - CL)
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https://ericzuesse.substack.com/p/germany-can-become-a-great-country?publication_id=2510475&utm_campaign=email-post-title&r=y7h5a&utm_medium=email Germany is now clearly a declining nation, all of which can be traced to its peonage (vassalage) to the U.S. dictatorship — the dictatorship by America’s thousand or so billionaires, whose wealth has been soaring mainly from the world’s by-far-largest ‘defense’ industry, whose profits ever since the Soviet Union ended in 1991 have soared the most of any sector, because these are virtually the only industries that can control their own market, because their own market is their own Government. In a corrupt country like the U.S. is (and neither Russia nor China copies the U.S. in this regard, but instead they both control their own armaments-makers — keep them socialized — instead of being controlled by their armaments-makers, while in America the armaments manufacturers DO control the Government, because their controlling billionaires do). In America, the Government can easily be, and actually IS, controlled by its billionaires, who control not only their armaments-makers, but also their media corporations and thus the public opinions and thus the Government. So, though there is voting in such a ‘democracy’, that is predominantly voting which is based upon what the billionaires want their public to believe.
For a typical example of how this works, a study published in 2022 by Bernstein Research found (as reported on its page 75) that, for one typical ‘defense’ corporation, Northrop Grumman, its “stock has outperformed the S&P 500 by 451% over the last 10 years.” Furthermore, “Defense stocks … also tend to outperform through recessions and are uncorrelated with inflation.” That’s the type of extraordinary profitability that a corporation which controls its own market normally achieves; and, in the U.S., ‘defense’ stocks started taking off like a rocket in 1991 and have been continuing that astounding growth ever since. The less necessary that a capitalist nation’s military is for protecting the nation, like in the U.S. since 1991 when the Soviet Union ended, the more profitable its military manufacturers are, because the corruption then becomes virtually unlimited (see this and this for the evidence). Right now, the U.S. Government spends 65% — almost two-thirds — of the entire world’s military expenditures — almost twice what all of the world’s 200 other nations together spend. Now, THAT’S corruption, on a massive scale! It’s shown right there, in those numbers.
