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2022-05-10 -Short Attention Span Theater-

You didn't invent that Military Industrial Complex

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Posted by Besoeker 2022-05-10 01:38|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 In turn, the plutocrats profited hugely when he began the war in Europe

This is hand-waving. In conditions of total war, corporations are squeezed until they scream. I suspect the major contributor to their post-war prosperity of their connections to the Nazis was their continued survival during the war, a time when scarcity of labor and materials squeezed every single private enterprise. If you did not use slave labor, you went out of business, because everyone else did. The US won the war, and its corporations did not enjoy significant inflation-adjusted gains in profits.

Germany, which lost, would presumably have seen its postwar government welsh on large amounts of payables to the corporations that made war materials. There's a reason businesses hate war - much as people are drafted and fed into the meat grinder, private capital is requisitioned and incinerated in the fires of war, whether through horrendous wartime inflation or outright seizure through unprofitable contracts.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2022-05-10 09:27|| 2022-05-10 09:27|| Front Page Top

#2 'Cold Wars' are where the Big Money is at. There is an anecdote in William Manchester's "The Arms of Krupp" where the government minister bitterly complains about the large caliber coastal artillery that were newly sold to foreigners. Krupp gallantly replied "...as a truly patriotic German he has even larger artillery ready to sell to Germany!"

Posted by magpie 2022-05-10 09:38|| 2022-05-10 09:38|| Front Page Top

#3 With assists to IBM, FoMoCo, and GM (Opel).

Posted by DooDahMan 2022-05-10 12:39|| 2022-05-10 12:39|| Front Page Top

#4 'Cold Wars' are where the Big Money is at.

More like proxy wars like the one we're fighting now in Ukraine or chickenshit little wars against piss ant countries like Iraq and Afghanistan. Gotta get kinetic to destroy some of that hardware so you can sell more of it.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2022-05-10 12:51|| 2022-05-10 12:51|| Front Page Top

#5 Either that or leave it behind when you bail.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2022-05-10 12:52|| 2022-05-10 12:52|| Front Page Top

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