For the government, war is called GDP.
For the military-industrial complex, war is called revenue and profit.
For shareholders, war is called share price growth and dividends.
For the financial-industrial complex, war is called wealth transfer, bonds & yield.
For the technical-industrial complex, war is called innovation, data and beta testing.
For the people, war is called debt and inflation.
For the victims of war, war becomes the trauma and radicalisation used to manufacture the next cycle of strategic tension that justifies even more war.
The goal is never to win.
The goal is to spend as much money as possible.
The more destruction, the more reconstruction contracts.
The more instability, the more debt issuance.
The more chaos, the more resources, infrastructure and trade routes get renegotiated.
That’s the business model.
You’re not defending democracy or saving the people.
You’re defending the terrorism your governments and intelligence networks helped create, fund, arm & exploit.
And then the fear from that terrorism gets turned back on you.
While you and your children pay the bill.
While the media manufactures consent and distorts reality to cheer it along.
And if you question any of it, they call you the conspiracy theorist, extremist or domestic terrorist.
You are funding terrorism and calling it defending democracy.
And most of you don’t even know it.
You called it patriotism.
You are the product.
Get it?
Iran shot down 20 percent of all US Reaper drones during US-Israeli war, Bloomberg reports
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Bloomberg reported on 21 May that Iran has destroyed at least 24 US MQ-9 Reaper drones since the start of the US–Israeli war, causing losses nearing $1 billion and wiping out roughly 20 percent of the Pentagon’s inventory of the aircraft.
The report said many of the drones were shot down by Iranian fire, while others were destroyed in missile strikes or lost in accidents.
The MQ-9 Reapers, which cost around $30m each, are no longer produced for US forces.
The losses add to mounting US and Israeli military costs in the war on Iran, including damaged radar systems, destroyed aircraft, and the depletion of advanced cruise missiles and munitions.