“For decades, governments insisted that public finances required austerity. Hospitals, universities, pensions and social welfare supposedly had to accept painful budget discipline. Suddenly, none of these fiscal constraints apply to military expenditure. Deficits that were politically impossible for healthcare or education have become entirely acceptable for weapons procurement. Defence spending is no longer presented as a burden but as an investment strategy and an excellent possibility for job openings (they don’t mention the expanded graveyards that usually go along with warfare)”
- quoting Biljana Vankovska in Savage Minds on Substack
“NATO 3.0: Alliance or Military-Industrial Investment Fund?”
https://open.substack.com/pub/savageminds/p/nato-30
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