“[Putin] does not stop stressing what he’s really longing for, like, a renaissance of the Soviet empire,” Pistorius said of Putin. “He wants to be the dominant power in Europe. […]”
Germany’s biggest defense contractor, Rheinmetall, and its subsidiaries have won a commanding share of recent government contracts.
Rheinmetall was one of Germany’s major arms producers during WWI and WWII.
In America, “our freedoms” is code for “our capital investments”, there’s no other way to coherently frame it.
In Europe now, “the ability to live freely in peace” is code for “our imperial superprofits”.
It would probably be worth it to them to arm al-Qaida & friends just so they can do
invasionsinterventions to keep a wide range of countries subjugated.