The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has supported a network of a dozen bases in Ukraine that are "increasingly at risk" if Republicans continue to block $61 billion in funding for Kyiv, the New York Times (NYT) reported on Feb. 25.
Because the funding is not supposed to win wars, but to make a certain segment of the elites very rich.
America has lost many wars over the past century, but it’s always made some people very rich in the process.
And now in Ukraine, it’s the Ukrainian and European lives that will die against Russia, not Americans. It’s the perfect opportunity to get extremely rich off this war.
It’s the capital flows that matter, when trying to understand capitalism.
Because the funding is not supposed to win wars, but to make a certain segment of the elites very rich.
America has lost many wars over the past century, but it’s always made some people very rich in the process.
And now in Ukraine, it’s the Ukrainian and European lives that will die against Russia, not Americans. It’s the perfect opportunity to get extremely rich off this war.
It’s the capital flows that matter, when trying to understand capitalism.