Yes that too, I think I would describe the foreign policy strategy of the Biden administration as "keep Russia from winning too quickly and make money from it".

I don't think I would describe the Trump administration's foreign policy as that. More like, the Trump administration wants Putin to win the war, but can't figure out how to make that politically and logistically happen without dropping the ball so hard it blows off the legs of the Republican and Democratic parties' entrenched power structures.

The tensions with the Iran-Israel war, if it can be stopped before it keeps growing (a big or rather possibly long expired if) may provide the political distraction for Putin and Trump to manuever so that Russia can literally or essentially end the war without losing face, but that all hinges on the people involved in these plans being competent which we all know is a folly to believe in.

No, I think the overwhelming VAST majority of all of the money being made by U.S. connected defense industry companies happening right now is happening in profitting off of the Palestinian Genocide and selling security theater to Israel. To a stunning degree, I bet the graphs and figures that will come out of this time period by academics studying the US military industrial complex will be intimidatingly shocking in the sheer size and scale of the movements of death they quantify.

The number of bombs (almost all of them supplied if not directly by the US, indirectly by the US) dropped on Gaza since October 7th is by the numbers one of the most horrific acts of war ever done.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_bombing_of_the_Gaza_Strip

As of Dec. 22, 20,057 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since the war started, according to the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry. During the Oct. 7 attack, Hamas militants killed about 1,200 people in Israel and took about 240 hostages back to Gaza, according to Israel.

The intensity of bombing in Gaza is something the researchers said they've never seen before.

"It's just the sheer speed of the damage," said Van Den Hoek. "All of these other conflicts that we're talking about [Ukraine, Syria, Yemen] are years long. This is a little over two months. And the sheer tempo of the bombing — not just the scale of it but the sheer tempo — there's nothing that tracks [like] this in such a short timeframe."

The two researchers have worked extensively on Ukraine since Russia launched its full-scale invasion in February 2022.

"The extent and the pace of damage in Gaza only compares to the heaviest-hit cities that we've seen in Ukraine," said Scher. "And those were much smaller areas. Mariupol and Bakhmut by area are smaller and the built-area density and clustering of structures was also much less."

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/israel-gaza-bombing-hamas-civilian-casualties-1.7068647

https://www.statswithsasa.com/2024/06/20/israels-historic-devastation-of-gaza/

[–] [email protected] 5 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

And now that EU is raising their defence budgets, the US companies are giddy with excitement for all the new sales and deals they're sure to be making.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

Yes, but also at the same time this represents a major shift in military industrial power away from the US, even if a dizzying amount of US defense industry companies are profiting off the process of moving the international "western" military industrial complex away from being based primarily around the axis of US power.

There are companies like Microsoft, Google and others that are hedging their bets by occupying prime spots in the Trump US authoritarian hegemony, but it is ultimately a losing proposition no matter what, all it does is buy these dying companies some more time to figure out how to bullshit their way out of the tyrant's inner circle without becoming a recognizable and culpable target of the rest of the world's moral conscience.

I am sure the CEOs and upper management of these companies can find a lot to learn about how German companies and upper management escaped culpability and indeed profited off of their loyalty to the bipartisan economic engine of war until the very end in the wake of WW2.....

The ultimate plan by the people actually in power in the US right now is to crash the US dollar and make their pet crypto projects appear to be a safe harbor temporarily so they can pump and dump it the same way the US dollar is being pumped and dumped right now.

Understand then that the traditional currents of geopolitical power are not functioning the way they would normally, we are in a new paradigm and it isn't one where the US has assumed military hegemony OR one that Russia has decisive military power.