Her Lao
2015-04-19 12:32:37 UTC
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/19/world/middleeast/sale-of-us-arms-fuels-the-wars-of-arab-states.html?_r=0
More wars simply means more profit for top-end American, European, Russian, and Chinese arms makers and dealers.
The richest, biggest, and/or MOST AUTOCRATIC nations of the Middle East (Egypt, Qatar, the UAE, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, etc) are ALWAYS buying only top-end military hardware and software from America and Western Europe...
That's how things usually work:
--- if you are not educated but have a lot of resources and are ruled by dictators, families or ideological, and military strong man personalities... you are in perpetual chaos.... so you need arms all the time.... so that means you and your countries and people are willing to get giant companies to COME IN FROM OUTSIDE to search for, dig up, and take away your raw natural resources in exchange for cash.... so that you could buy the necessary bullets, guns, explosives, tanks, cars, planes, ships, etc. to carry on doing your chaos and destruction!
Keep in mind that MOST of the ruling elite families in the Middle East have OFF SHORE ACCOUNTS where they stashed away HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS of dollars; and MOST of them send their kids and grand kids to schools in the USA or Western Europe... so most are either naturally dual citizens of the West, too; or they choose to leave the troubled Mid East...
Even if not every one leaves, many family members of the wealthiest Middle Easterners have many family members taken off to the West, to establish roots and anchor, so that in case they get kicked out, by unforeseen revolutions or other chaos, they all bail out and come to the West, to use their stashed away hundreds of billions of dollars they skimmed off of society when they were rulers and/or friends and associates of rulers...
But rulers --- politicians and military elites --- of the West also win: they and their well connected families, friends, and business associates and college colleagues... they all get to cut good chunks of THE PIE...
So WARS ARE GOOD BUSINESSES, for the rich and powerful and well connected, in EVERY SOCIETY.... because they are very profitable.... although wars are very tragic events for the men and women on the streets who don't have power, money, or places to go and hide or food to eat...
More wars simply means more profit for top-end American, European, Russian, and Chinese arms makers and dealers.
The richest, biggest, and/or MOST AUTOCRATIC nations of the Middle East (Egypt, Qatar, the UAE, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, etc) are ALWAYS buying only top-end military hardware and software from America and Western Europe...
That's how things usually work:
--- if you are not educated but have a lot of resources and are ruled by dictators, families or ideological, and military strong man personalities... you are in perpetual chaos.... so you need arms all the time.... so that means you and your countries and people are willing to get giant companies to COME IN FROM OUTSIDE to search for, dig up, and take away your raw natural resources in exchange for cash.... so that you could buy the necessary bullets, guns, explosives, tanks, cars, planes, ships, etc. to carry on doing your chaos and destruction!
Keep in mind that MOST of the ruling elite families in the Middle East have OFF SHORE ACCOUNTS where they stashed away HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS of dollars; and MOST of them send their kids and grand kids to schools in the USA or Western Europe... so most are either naturally dual citizens of the West, too; or they choose to leave the troubled Mid East...
Even if not every one leaves, many family members of the wealthiest Middle Easterners have many family members taken off to the West, to establish roots and anchor, so that in case they get kicked out, by unforeseen revolutions or other chaos, they all bail out and come to the West, to use their stashed away hundreds of billions of dollars they skimmed off of society when they were rulers and/or friends and associates of rulers...
But rulers --- politicians and military elites --- of the West also win: they and their well connected families, friends, and business associates and college colleagues... they all get to cut good chunks of THE PIE...
So WARS ARE GOOD BUSINESSES, for the rich and powerful and well connected, in EVERY SOCIETY.... because they are very profitable.... although wars are very tragic events for the men and women on the streets who don't have power, money, or places to go and hide or food to eat...