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\"Propaganda,<\/p>\n

Propaganda, Confrontation and Profit<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n

The waves, the artificial tides of anti-Russian propaganda continue to beat upon the ears and eyes of Western citizens, spurred by Washington politicians and bureaucrats whose motives vary from deviously duplicitous to blatantly commercial. It is no coincidence that there has been vastly increased expenditure on US weaponry by Eastern European countries.<\/p>\n

Complementing the weapons\u2019 build-up, which is so sustaining and lucrative for the US industrial-military complex, the naval, air and ground forces of the US-NATO military alliance continue operations ever closer to Russia\u2019s borders.<\/p>\n

Shares and dividends in US arms manufacturing companies have rocketed, in a most satisfactory spinoff from Washington\u2019s policy of global confrontation, and the Congressional Research Service (CRS)\u00a0records<\/a>\u00a0that \u201carms sales are recognized widely as an important instrument of state power. States have many incentives to export arms. These include enhancing the security of allies or partners; constraining the behaviour of adversaries; using the prospect of arms transfers as leverage on governments\u2019 internal or external behaviour; and creating the economics of scale necessary to support a domestic arms industry.\u201d<\/p>\n

The CRS notes that arms deals \u201care often a key component in Congress\u2019s approach to advancing US foreign policy objectives,\u201d which is especially notable around the Baltic and throughout the Middle East, where US wars have created a bonanza for US weapons makers \u2014 and for the politicians whom the manufacturers\u00a0reward so generously<\/a>\u00a0for their support. (Additionally, in 2017 arms manufacturers\u00a0spent<\/a>\u00a0$93,937,493 on lobbying Congress.)<\/p>\n

Some countries, however, do not wish to purchase US weaponry, and they are automatically categorised as being influenced by Russia, which is\u00a0blamed<\/a>\u00a0for all that has gone wrong in America over the past couple of years. This classification is especially notable in the Central Asian Republics.<\/p>\n

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Propaganda, Confrontation and Profit The waves, the artificial tides of anti-Russian propaganda continue to beat upon the ears and eyes of Western citizens, spurred by Washington politicians and bureaucrats whose motives vary from deviously duplicitous to blatantly commercial. It is no coincidence that there has been vastly increased expenditure on US weaponry by Eastern European […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5,6],"tags":[17388,12435,17387,15620,528,1980,655,694,8203,865],"class_list":["post-28644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","tag-anti-russia-propaganda","tag-brian-cloughley","tag-confrontation","tag-mic","tag-military-industrial-complex","tag-profit","tag-propaganda","tag-russia","tag-strategic-culture-foundation","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28644"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28645,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28644\/revisions\/28645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}