Investors in US Weapon-Makers Only Clear Winners of Afghan War — “Entrenching U.S. Forces in Afghanistan Was The Military-Industrial Complex’s Business Plan for 20+ Years” — The Goal is An Endless War, Not a Successful War!
- Investors in US Weapon-Makers Only Clear Winners of Afghan War — “Entrenching U.S. Forces in Afghanistan Was The Military-Industrial Complex’s Business Plan for 20+ Years”
by Jessica Corbett, Common Dreams, https://consortiumnews.com/
Share prices of military manufacturers vastly outperformed the stock market overall during the Afghanistan War.
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As the hawks who have been lying about the U.S. invasion and occupation of Afghanistan for two decades continue to peddle fantasies in the midst of a Taliban takeover and American evacuation of Kabul, progressive critics on Tuesday reminded the world who has benefited from the “endless war.”
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“Entrenching U.S. forces in Afghanistan was the military-industrial complex’s business plan for 20+ years,” declared the Washington, D.C.-based advocacy group Public Citizen.
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[Related: A People’s Guide to the War Industry, Part 1 and Part 2 and Part 3 and Part 4 and Part 5.]
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“Hawks and defense contractors co-opted the needs of the Afghan people in order to line their own pockets,” the group added. “Never has it been more important to end war profiteering.”
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In a Tuesday morning tweet, Public Citizen highlighted returns on defense stocks over the past 20 years — as calculated in a “jaw-dropping” analysis by The Intercept — and asserted that “the military-industrial complex got exactly what it wanted out of this war.”
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Julian Assange speaking in 2011: "The goal is to use Afghanistan to wash money out of the tax bases of the US and Europe through Afghanistan and back into the hands of a transnational security elite. The goal is an endless war, not a successful war" #Afghanistan pic.twitter.com/Hg3qVzABBg
— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) August 18, 2021
Defense stocks during the Afghanistan War:
Lockheed Martin: 1,236% return
Northrop Grumman: 1,196% return
Boeing: 975% return
General Dynamics: 625% return
Raytheon: 331% returnThe military-industrial complex got exactly what it wanted out of this war.
— Public Citizen (@Public_Citizen) August 17, 2021
— Public Citizen (@Public_Citizen) August 17, 2021
War should NOT be profitable. PERIOD. #StopEndlessWarshttps://t.co/uejoZEW0vi
— Our Revolution (@OurRevolution) August 17, 2021
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