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The military budgets, which President Trump insists must increase in the European Union, threats of war and preparation for war are a huge profit-maker not only for the armaments manufacturers but also from the bribes to politicians that go hand in hand with arms sales. A more polite word is commissions. For the US, President Trump has requested a 13.4% increase in military spending. The US Senate has proposed a larger increase. 

Why?  We only have enemies of our own choosing. Russia, China, and Iran have no interest in war.  The reason is that they do not have the military/security complex that President Eisenhower warned us against as long ago as 1961.  This is America’s problem.  So far the US military-security complex has forced Washington to violate the George H. W. Bush administration’s promise not to move NATO to the Russian border.  The US military/security complex funds neoconservatives, their think tanks, university departments,  and publications and, thereby, funds their foreign policy objective of Washington’s hegemony over the world.  Such a foreign policy means war and nothing but war.

All of the meetings, talk, and commentary about Ukrainian peace negotiations is cover for continuing a war that Washington’s puppet state is losing.  There is still the prospect of European soldiers being sent to Ukraine’s defense with US weapons purchased by Europe.  The  US military/security complex is salivating.  The way Trump hopes to get out of the war is to turn it over to the EU with contracts to purchase American weapons.

Recently Russia’s Foreign Minister Lavrov, who has been extremely dense until now, realized and said that Russia was at war with an empire and that it would be a long war.  

The long war will be the product of Putin’s blunder in not quickly taking the conflict in Ukraine to victory.

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