Paradox.
Self-reinforcing cycle, where War becomes a Marketplace and peace becomes a threat to quarterly earnings, the military industrial complex thrives not on the end of War, but on its permanence that the pentagon’s budget increases.
With Russia, conduct. Every rumor of a new missile. Every headline that reads. Threats. Is a symbiotic dance between adversaries who publicly accuse each other of aggression. But privately depend on one another to justify spending more contracts and more production. The United States in particular, has mastered the art of monetizing fear. Turning a geopolitical crisis into a billion dollar opportunity.
When Russia launches a missile, it doesn’t just shake the sky over Moscow, it shakes the stock markets of New York and London, and for certain boardrooms that Tremor is pure gold, the deeper irony, and the hook that should disturb everything thinking citizen is that this system rewards escalation over resolution, the more unstable, the world becomes the stronger, the financial performance of the defense sector
For these corporations is bad business stability. For them is stagnation. They thrive on the constant churn of new threats. From Russia, China, Iran. Because each new enemy means new contracts, new subsidies. And new technological development is funded by public money. The economic logic. It is ridiculous for every weapon. Russia builds the West must build for every missile tested. Five, new defense programs are approved. Fear is no longer a byproduct of War, it’s the foundation of prophet and so the cycle continues with politicians selling National Security, Media amplifying danger and corporations capitalizing on Panic. The public is kept in a state of perpetual anxiety, told that massive defense spending is the only path to safety. But safety never arrives because there is no goal. What we are witnessing is not the defense of democracy. Defense of a business model, a model that requires conflict to justify its existence. That manufacturer’s crisis to maintain its profits.