The Wolf Pack is Going to Get Us All Killed

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Near as I can tell, there are two reasons we are supporting the regime in Ukraine. The first is that by sending them armaments, we are boosting the American Military Industrial Complex by giving them zillions of dollars of business. The other is so the Biden's can continue to collect their commission on the natural gas transits fees, fees being paid Western Europe for Russian natural gas. The commission looks pretty paltry compared to the amount of money being spent on armament, but it's cash in the pocket. All that money going to military industrial complex is going to giant corporations where it gets divvied up into a multitude of pots. The big shots get a commission that is a small fraction of the total, so it probably amounts to about the same. Never underestimate the power of naked avarice.

Like some wag said, we're willing to fight Russia to the last Ukrainian. That stand off at the Azov steel plant in Mariupol is a little puzzling. The only explanation that's made sense is that the Ukranians are afraid that if they surrender they will be executed or sent to a Gulag, never to return. Given how nasty that part of the world seems to be, remember the Balkans from, what - 20 years ago? I guess I can't blame them. Better to starve to death in a concrete bunker.

Meanwhile we keep poking the bear. We've been doing it for like ten years, and now we act all surprised when the bear takes a swipe at us ('us' being the US and our pet puppet Zelensky). And now, instead of trying to resolve the situation, we continue to poke the bear. It's almost like you want him to take big swing at you so you can - what? Get on TV and say - look at what the big bad Russian is doing? Swing back with big effing hammer? I wouldn't be surprised if the idiots in charge weren't war gaming a nuclear war right now, trying to figure out how they can come out on top of whatever is left.

But maybe they are content just to milk the situation for as long as they can without pushing it over the brink. As long as the war goes on they have a built in excuse for spending boatloads of money on missiles, bombs and guns. They are paying for this with money from their infinite printing press. What this is doing is impoverishing everyone who isn't part of the wolf pack. All members of the pack are getting a share of the moola being spent on guns. Everyone else is just seeing the value of their money shrinking.

It's like you have two groups. Each group has one zillion dollars, put together that's a total of two zillion dollars. The first group prints themselves another zillion so now they have two zillion dollars and we have a total of three zillion dollars. However, we don't have any more land or any more stuff because we sent all the armaments to Ukraine. So the first group now holds 2/3 of the wealth of the country and the second group only holds 1/3 of the wealth. That is how the military industrial complex and deficit spending are screwing over everyone who isn't a member of the pack.

What is the pack? The pack is all the people who work for the government, those who work for a  defense contractors and all those who have substantial investment holdings in those defense contractors. The first rule of being a person is look out for number one. Once you have taken care of number one, you can think about taking care of other people. All those people who aren't part of the pack, they can look out for themselves.