War Contractors Running the Pentagon - Bogey Man: Nuclear War

Editor's note: Reports are probably correct suggesting Russia is putting in place a million man army as the US-UK buildup their military preparations against Russia. We guess that means the US is "warming up" for a bigger conflict. There are a lot of mixed signals being sent out. On the one hand, the US is building up its military in Europe to go to war with Russia, while National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan says, "he is keeping lines of communication open with high-level Russian counterparts to avert the risk of a possible nuclear conflict." Does anyone really believe that? Especially when Russia has no intent and never did to initiate nuclear war? Another case in which the velvet-tongued trickster Sullivan (his job for the US military industrial complex is to create enemies) projects some kind of an imagined moral imperative to "prevent nuclear war" simultaneously building up a US military presence in Europe. This is being done under "wartime purchasing powers" when no war has been declared against Russia. As a "concept" this is what the US and its resulting corporate offshoot war contractors do best: Create concepts then everyone buys into them: On Deconstructing Concepts. In order to "prevent a nuclear war" the Pentagon being run by war contractors and managers of war require further weapons manufacturing and sales. This is the central banking warfare model. 

US "Nuclear Apocalypse" Submarine Enters Mediterranean Sea as Warning to Kremlin
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Source: AntiWar

Pentagon Expects Congress to Provide Wartime Purchasing Power

The Senate introduced an amendment to its version of the NDAA

by Dave DeCamp | November 7, 2022

Bill LaPlante, the Pentagon's chief weapons buyer, said that he expects Congress to grant the authority to allow wartime purchasing power at a level not seen since the Cold War, Defense News reported on Monday.

To continue arming Ukraine, LaPlante has been calling for the Pentagon to be granted the authority to lock in multiyear contracts for weapons purchases, which are typically reserved for procuring naval vessels and warplanes. The idea is to get arms makers the incentive to ramp up production.

The Senate has added an amendment to its version of the 2023 National Defense Authorization Act to grant the authority. It would allow the Pentagon to make multiyear purchases through 2023 and 2024 of certain arms made by Lockheed Martin, BAE Systems, Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace, and Raytheon, the former employer of Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin.

The Senate is expected to vote on its version of the NDAA sometime this month, and it will then negotiate the final version of the spending bill with the House. LaPlante expects the wartime purchasing powers to make it into the finalized version that will reach President Biden’s desk.

"They are supportive of this. They're going to give us multiyear authority, and they're going to give us funding to really put into the industrial base ― and I'm talking billions of dollars into the industrial base ― to fund these production lines," LaPlante said on Friday.

"That, I predict, is going to happen, and it's happening now. And then people will have to say: 'I guess they were serious about it.' But we have not done that since the Cold War," he added.

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US war contractors running the Pentagon are not going to stop the production and logistical support of weapons and munitions to Ukraine.

Three-Star General to Lead New US Command Overseeing Arming Ukraine

No matter how intense US (and particularly the UK media) media propaganda is in this war on us (information war), there is no evidence of Russian war crimes:

US-Funded Media Fails to Produce Evidence of Russian "War Crimes"