The US is responsible for the death of Palestinians because it’s not getting paid for its weapons?? That’s the moral theory? Insufficient profit?
absolutely not; as I said, there is a legitimate discussion to have about for-profit activities conducted under a compulsory capitalist system.
The US does not even have financial self-interest as an excuse, and moreover their motivation for providing lethal aid is only satisfied through the use of those weapons. An arms manufacturer (rife with moral conflict as they are) gains nothing from the use of their weapons, only in selling them. The US’s foreign policy is dictated through their judicious use of force on comparatively defenseless foreign powers - they gain benefit from killing, mutilating, and genociding populations at their behest abroad.
No the military industries still get paid. The difference between aid and sales is that aid is paid for by US taxpayer money while sales is paid by the country receiving the weapons
Since much of the donor class, lobbyists, and politicians in America own stock in those military companies, they still get a paycheck at the end of the day. It’s the regular American citizens that foot the bill
Sure they do, but that’s immaterial to the US state department who views Israel’s dominance in the ME essential to their own control over the region (at the expense of the US taxpayer and, ya know, all of the lives killed and destroyed from endless armed conflict).
The point is that the primary benefit to the US arming pretty much any group in the world is realized through the use of those weapons on innocent people the world over, whether it’s the Taliban, Hezbollah, or Israel. Whereas the primary benefit to a company like Glock from selling weapons to American cops is realized from the sale itself - they don’t benefit from POC being killed by overzealous cops… at least, not through any way the public can reasonably see.
Yeah I agree. Besides the military contractor aspect, the MIC is used to destabilize the world for the benefit of US corporations via Neo-colonialism in order to extract resources from foreign countries and establish a global hegemonic force
absolutely not; as I said, there is a legitimate discussion to have about for-profit activities conducted under a compulsory capitalist system.
The US does not even have financial self-interest as an excuse, and moreover their motivation for providing lethal aid is only satisfied through the use of those weapons. An arms manufacturer (rife with moral conflict as they are) gains nothing from the use of their weapons, only in selling them. The US’s foreign policy is dictated through their judicious use of force on comparatively defenseless foreign powers - they gain benefit from killing, mutilating, and genociding populations at their behest abroad.
No the military industries still get paid. The difference between aid and sales is that aid is paid for by US taxpayer money while sales is paid by the country receiving the weapons
Since much of the donor class, lobbyists, and politicians in America own stock in those military companies, they still get a paycheck at the end of the day. It’s the regular American citizens that foot the bill
Sure they do, but that’s immaterial to the US state department who views Israel’s dominance in the ME essential to their own control over the region (at the expense of the US taxpayer and, ya know, all of the lives killed and destroyed from endless armed conflict).
The point is that the primary benefit to the US arming pretty much any group in the world is realized through the use of those weapons on innocent people the world over, whether it’s the Taliban, Hezbollah, or Israel. Whereas the primary benefit to a company like Glock from selling weapons to American cops is realized from the sale itself - they don’t benefit from POC being killed by overzealous cops… at least, not through any way the public can reasonably see.
Yeah I agree. Besides the military contractor aspect, the MIC is used to destabilize the world for the benefit of US corporations via Neo-colonialism in order to extract resources from foreign countries and establish a global hegemonic force