Why Western Governments Are Beating the Drums for Wars
The only parts of American, German, British, French, and Italian industry that are booming right now, are their armaments manufacturers — the companies that sell far more to governments than to consumers, and that therefore boom while the economy busts. These are the companies that need to control the Government in order to control their biggest market (which IS the Government), and so their controlling owners, the billionaires who control their boards, need to control the influencers of the public, in order to get their candidates elected into Government so as to increase Government spending on their products and services, and to either increase the national debt or else cut the Government’s expenditures for the health, education, and welfare, of the voters. Those “influencers of the public” are news-media, and are also the prestigious universities, and think tanks, whose professors and experts they hire as opinion-writers etc. to validate what these billionaires want to be validated so that the public will then vote for the politicians who support this idea of increasing the public debt and decreasing public spending for the benefit of the public, in order to increase military spending. And the way to do this is the type of scare-mongering that European Governments are doing right now to the effect that Russia is planning to conquer their countries, and that America’s Government is doing right now in order to scare-monger Americans to the effect that China is planning to conquer America — and that the U.S. Government had used also in 2002 and 2003 in order to scare-monger Americans into thinking that Iraq was preparing to attack America. This is the basic marketing plan for those billionaires, and it has always been extremely profitable for them.
For example, on May 2nd the U.S. White House — which has made clear that it’s beating the drums for war against China — headlined “Office of Management and Budget Releases the President’s Fiscal Year 2026 Skinny Budget” and reported that “The Budget, which reduces non-defense discretionary by $163 billion or 23 percent from the 2025 enacted level, guts a weaponized deep state while providing historic increases for defense and border security. … Defense spending would increase by 13 percent, and appropriations for the Department of Homeland Security would increase by nearly 65 percent, to ensure that our military and other agencies repelling the invasion of our border have the resources they need to complete the mission.” All of those increases would go towards the suppliers to the enormously militarized police-state at the same time that health, education, and welfare, of the voters, will be reduced by $165 billion or 23% from the current level. And notice that Trump’s propaganda-operation is alleging that they are “gutting a weaponized deep state” by cutting Governmental services to the poor. If that sounds stupid, it is no stupider than the electorate is, but the electorate were given a choice between the nominees of two Parties, each of which is controlled by its billionaires; and in an election such at that, it is like having a choice between different ways to commit suicide; and, so, it is the billionaires who are to be blamed, not the voters (in both Parties) who have been deceived by them into voting for their candidates. But anyway: Trump revealed there his contempt for his voters, because even he knows that the Deep State does NOT consist of the poor, but instead it consists of the billionaires.
The White House’s May 2nd “Major Discretionary Funding Changes” says that:
For Defense spending [ONLY the Defense Department, NOT including the approximately $700 billion yearly of annual U.S. milita
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