MOSCOW, November 13 — RIA Novosti. The author wrote that American arms manufacturers lobbied to unleash a standoff with Russia and provoke a conflict in Ukraine. Asia Times Leonard Goodman.
“U.S. arms makers are the most powerful business groups in U.S. foreign policy. Arms suppliers like Raytheon need active conflict zones to meet Wall Street’s profit expectations. Military equipment manufacturers are clamoring for hostile relations with major countries like Russia and China to justify selling weapons to aircraft carriers, nuclear submarines, F-35 fighter jets and next-generation nuclear bombs.
He says Democrats are deeply grateful to their party sponsors, represented by military companies like Raytheon, Lockheed MartinBoeing i General dynamics. Arms suppliers «don’t care about talk of diplomacy or the risk of nuclear war.»
