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https://www.lewrockwell.com/2023/10/karen-kwiatkowski/a-dogs-breakfast/

A Dog’s Breakfast

By Karen Kwiatkowski

Doug Casey recently described what’s happening in the Middle East as a dog’s breakfast. A muddle, a mess. President Biden is himself a dog’s breakfast in human form, and while Biden is never clear nor coherent, the modern pattern of US policy may be.

The US government, and its military industrial complex sponsors – who own much of the media, and who, along with the rest of the media, are owned by Blackrock and Vanguard – wants mass subsidy of the US arms industry, and to sell those mostly debt-funded arms everywhere at a big mark-up.

Building a border wall, whether with construction materials or security sensors, is a low margin activity, and once in place, the updating and repair contracts are not lucrative, in the way that government-subsidized weapons systems and ammunition with associated spending and endless training, and with continuous upgrades and cost overruns – this is where the real money is.

Pursuant to this compelling interest, the USG and its cronies in certain industries – and their bought-and-paid-for Congressmen and Senators – must create customers, and they need customers whose checks don’t bounce, those who can “owe” the US their commercial loyalty. This is the function of NATO, and NATO expansion, it is the purpose of the Ukraine proxy war, and it is the purpose of the current knee-jerk policy alignment with the hard right in Israel.

It only looks like a dog’s breakfast. ......