A bipartisan delegation of nine one-way war-Members of the U.S. Congress is attending the Farnsborough Air Show in the UK, which this year features swarms of fully autonomous bankers from the world’s biggest financial institutions, who are attacking expensive lunches and an “Arms Finance Summit,” as a Spanish supporter had let us know.
The Congressional delegation demanded to be heard. Reuters reported Jerry Moran (R-KS): “Our message is encouragement to them to increase their capabilities to send the message that the demand signal is for real…. We are doing the things in Congress that suggest that the demand is only going to grow.” And then overcome by his own demands, “We need more demand to meet the demand to make our country grow.” Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH): “The fact that we have such a large presence is important not just to America’s industry but also to the partnerships that we need to have around the world to not only improve our economic security but our national security.” American companies’ autonomous fighters were on full display.
These beliefs of the war-Congressmen and -Congresswomen about war economies, are false. It has never been clearer than now, that war production only stirs to life to make war, as with the orders waiting in Ukraine, its eager European suppliers, the Gulf countries, and the American military establishment itself, for U.S. arms companies to resupply weapon systems destroyed or lost in wars. Arms merely for “defense” do not wake up military contractor companies; arms for ongoing, planned, and anticipated wars, do.
