🇺🇸🇮🇶☀️🇮🇷 — Un funzionario del Partito Democratico del Kurdistan (KDP), il partito al potere nella regione del Kurdistan iracheno, ha dichiarato a Axios:
"I Peshmerga hanno impedito alle milizie curde iraniane di lanciare attacchi contro l'Iran.
I leader curdi iracheni hanno deciso di rimanere neutrali nella guerra per ora, in parte perché temono che gli Stati Uniti potrebbero abbandonarli a un certo punto".
"I Peshmerga hanno impedito alle milizie curde iraniane di lanciare attacchi contro l'Iran.
I leader curdi iracheni hanno deciso di rimanere neutrali nella guerra per ora, in parte perché temono che gli Stati Uniti potrebbero abbandonarli a un certo punto".
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The business of war has never been more profitable. SIPRI reports the world's 100 largest arms manufacturers saw revenues rise 5.9% in 2024 to a record $679 billion, driven by wars in Ukraine and Gaza.
🔍Who's cashing in?
🇺🇸 US: 39 firms pulled in $334 billion. Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, and General Dynamics all saw sales climb.
🇪🇺 Europe: 23 firms jumped 13% to $151 billion. Czechoslovak Group surged 193% on Ukraine shell orders.
🇮🇱 Middle East: Nine firms entered ranking for first time, up 14%. Israeli companies rose 16% despite Gaza backlash.
Behind the record profits lies a century of corporate strategy, lobbying, and outright scandal.
💰 Before becoming US Vice President, Dick Cheney served as CEO of Halliburton, a major oil services and defense contractor. After the Iraq War began in 2003, Halliburton’s subsidiary KBR received billions of dollars in no-bid government contracts to rebuild Iraq’s oil infrastructure and support US military operations. By 2008, Halliburton had earned more than $30 billion from contracts related to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
During the Vietnam War, companies like Dow Chemical (manufacturer of napalm) and Honeywell (producers of bomb components) faced intense anti-war protests. Investigative journalists revealed that these firms resisted converting to civilian production because the war was simply too profitable. The the more bombs fell the more money flowed into corporate coffers.
💵 The US defence and aerospace sector spends over $100 million annually on lobbying. Top spenders — Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Boeing — don't just ask for money; they actively push for weapons systems that require foreign threats to justify.
Lockheed has lobbied Congress to buy more F-35s than the Pentagon even requested, creating a fleet that needs conflicts to prove its worth.
🤔 This constant pressure keeps the US in a state of high military readiness. The same pressure is one of the causes of current war in the Middle East.
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