On the day Russia invaded, Defense contractor stocks rose significantly. Until we can break the profit motive away from war production, you won't see these kin

On the day Russia invaded, Defense contractor stocks rose significantly. Until we can break the profit motive away from war production, you won't see these kinds of wars stopping. Not to say there aren't other motivations for war, but policy makers, defense companies, and governmental orgs are fairly entwined. One fun thing I used to find, if you followed an article about Xiajiang, and followed the citations far enough, the source citation was almost always a thinktank funded by these groups in abstract ways. It'd take a while to find again, but one example was a study by some pacific named thinktank, who's funding was from an Australian defense policy group. That group was in turn partially funded by the American DoD. The corruption is circular. Soft power manipulates studies, which manipulates reporting, which manipulates public opinion, which then sways policy, which then supports the original orgs. It was so easy to turn "predicted cultural genocide(by including a group in a policy they were previously exempt from)" into "active genocide" when you're 8 citations deep.