True cruelty is the people who invaded Afghanistan based on some trumped up charges, killed a bunch of civilians, robbed them blind of their national resources, and then proclaimed themselves saviours. As heartless as the commenter seems, he is far less harmful to the Afghans than the so called humanitarians. Unlike them, he sounds like he'd be all to happy to leave them be.
That is correct, but I want to expound on that with some comments from the horse's mouth itself in order to get it across as blunt & stark as it can be. There's a lot of ambiguous, generalizing kind of comments about "why do bad people randomly do bad things"... that is not it at all. There's a specific reason why this happens, and they
don't think they're doing bad things.
Let's put things this way. If you have a business, for you to make a profit you are going to want conditions to be favorable for the product you're selling. The more favorable, the more 'in demand' the product will be, and thus the more you make. You already know that, nothing new there - but I'll get to what the issue is in a moment.
Meet Marillyn Hewson. Until 2020 she was the president of Lockheed Martin, a multibillion dollar corporation that makes weapons & vehicles for war. She's the 22nd richest person in the world.
In 2015 the US reached a deal with Iran - the Iran Nuclear Deal - in which Iran would stop nuclear enrichment in exchange for removal of sanctions. Afterwards, Hewson was speaking at a conference of shareholders & investors, and she said this...
"To your question about foreign policy and normalization and things of that nature, there are certainly plenty of threats in the region. You know, just the volatility, even if there may be some kind of deal done with Iran, there is volatility all around the region. And each one of these countries believes they've got to protect their citizens. And the things that we can bring to them help in that regard"
She's reassuring shareholders that it's ok, don't worry, even though there was a deal done with Iran, there's still a lot of volatility around the region. And they're all going to want to protect their citizens, and that's where we get rich. The Iran Nuclear Deal was something unfortunate for them!!
"Volatility" she says...
where is the volatility coming from? Is it just spontaneously arising all on it's own all over the place, like whack-a-mole? No. This is where we get to the issue that I referred to earlier.
Due a long list of deregulatory & rules-changing actions that took place over the last 40 years, driven by 4 big Supreme Court cases that first allowed money in politics (1976) and then kept increasing it's role in politics (until 2014's McCutcheon v FEC set the limit oligarchs can give at
infinity), the 40 years of rules-changing created a government in which it is
legal to buy politicians & congress.
And if you're a business owner, you want conditions to be favorable for the product you sell. In Hewson's case, she sells death.
Soooo in order to make the environment good for business people such as Hewson, along with CEOs of all the other defense contractors (Raytheon, Northrop Grumman, etc)
buy the government,
both parties... and then give them their marching orders. You think voters give them their marching orders? LOL. No. Oligarchs do. "We want you to do military interventions all over the planet". For what reason? "No reason (apart from making us rich) But don't worry, we'll fabricate something. We consolidated the entire media down to
six companies, so we control the messaging & narrative. We'll dupe the citizenry over & over again, don't worry about that"
To people like her, peace is like what drought is to a farmer.
In 2001, the Taliban offered an unconditional surrender AND to hand Bin Laden over. The US said NO THANKS.
Because peace is like what drought is to a farmer.
Now note her comment "things that we can bring to them on that regard". Note the brazenness of this comment.
It's a mafia!! "We sell protection to people, and if they aren't afraid enough to want it, we
make them afraid"
They do, basically,
money laundering (also like a mafia) They suck allllllll the taxpayer money out of the people - like dozens of mosquitoes on one person sucking up all the money - start numerous military actions, which have no legal reason but serve as the '
front' in the money laundering scheme... and then all the money gets shoveled to the mafia (Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, etc) who started the fires in the
first place.
As the world's most pre-eminent journalist once said, a man who has won every major journalist award and is currently being put under the most illegal prosecution ever (thanks to their framing him due to controlling the narrative)......
"The goal is not to completely subjugate Afghanistan. The goal is to use Afghanistan to wash money out of the tax bases of the United States, out of the tax bases of European countries, through Afghanistan, and back into the hands of a transnational security elite. That is the goal, i.e., the goal is to have an endless war not a successful war"
21 trillion unaccounted for at the Pentagon. Unaccounted for, i.e., no idea where it went to, couldn't know less, etc. That is an amount of money that could end world hunger
for the next seven hundred years. If you used even a tiny fraction of that number, it could pay for all the shit American citizens actually need.
What you see here with the defense contractors? The same basis applies
every other industry. Go to the health care industry,
here's Wall Street asking biotech research companies this question
Is curing patients a sustainable business model? "I mean, we
could cure viruses, but then we wouldn't make as much as money as we would if we just mitigated the symptoms but didn't outright cure it".
The goal is to have endless sickness, not successfully cure it. The goal is to have endless war, not a successful war.
Take the fossil fuel industry. A lobbyist interviewing for a job at a health insurance company said ""Did we aggressively fight against some of the science? Yes. Did we join some of these shadow groups to work against some of the early efforts? Yes, that's true.
But there's nothing illegal about that.
We were looking out for our investments,
we were looking out for our shareholders"
That's a whole lot of badness being caused right there.
@Jumbly , you asked why there's so much of it... there's your answer. The
system we have
rewards it. Because this is the system we have, they don't think they're doing anything wrong. They're not aware of the destruction they're causing - they've been born & raised far apart and separated from everyone else, in an enclave with other multibillionaires; this is all they know. Just like an Islamic terrorist only knows that due to having been born & raised in an enclave consisting of only that.
So that's why people do bad shit and why there's so much of it.
