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All this has put fresh wind in the sails of the weapons manufacturers of the American military-industrial-congressional complex. In May 2022, the CEO of Lockheed Martin thanked President Biden personally for his kindness. F-16s, after all, are big money-makers. As for the additional fuel that ordinary Ukrainians require, it is now being sequestered underground by Ukrainian commodities traders at enormous…

Article: Tomgram: David Bromwich, The Everlasting Alibi - A new war, a new alibi. When we think about our latest war the one that began with the Russian invasion of Ukraine, just six months after our Afghan War ended so catastrophically there is a hidden benefit. As long as American minds are on Ukraine, we are not thinking about planetary climate disruption. This technique of distraction obeys the familiar mechanism that psychologists have called displacement[...]