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Nhat Hanh

U.S. Won’t Rule Out Escalating Defense-Sector Profits From Syria Conflict

WASHINGTON—As the U.S. military awaited a potential response to its recent series of targeted airstrikes, sources reported Monday that the Trump administration would not rule out escalating defense-sector profits from the conflict in Syria. 

“If [Syrian president] Bashar al-Assad decides to retaliate, we won’t hesitate to rapidly scale up the revenue that weapons manufacturers can expect to earn from military action in Syria,” said Secretary of Defense James Mattis, 

adding that the use of over $160 million worth of Tomahawk missiles in precision strikes over the weekend should indicate that the American private defense sector was exceptionally prepared to profit from the conflict if necessary. 

“Our response to the use of chemical weapons in Syria should give corporations in the military-industrial complex and their shareholders the message that we are more than ready to send the value of their stocks soaring. 

The U.S. armed forces will stop at nothing to ensure that companies like Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Boeing, and General Dynamics remain in the black.” At press time, U.S. officials noted that if rising payments to defense companies for missiles and drones failed to deter Assad, 

they were open to significantly expanding the bottom line of private military contractors that supply ground troops.

DYI:  Obviously Secretary of Defense James Mattis never said anything close to the satire The Onion is telling you but in my mind if he was in truth telling mode this would have been his exact words.  One week after Donald Trump stated the U.S. needs to pull out of Syria Assad chemical attacks his own people?  That makes absolutely no sense.  Unless of course it is nothing more than a false flag staged faked event forwarded by the British.  Sunny old England the British government has been propagandizing their population since the invention of the printing press as illustrated by the BBC known by its sarcastic name The British Brainwashing Commission.  Everything I’ve seen from the BBC or CNN International is war propaganda.  And terribly done propaganda; back to the 1950’s level of competency.

Whether these gas attacks are real or not what imminent or remote threat does Syria pose to the U.S. [England or France]?  Once again it is obvious Syria poses no threat to any of these countries especially the United States.  Since there is no military threat to the Alliance [U.S., U.K., NATO, EU] it is necessary to create a monster out of Assad the leader of Syria.  The Military Industrial Complex is lavished with revenues and the Alliance’s global natural resource corporations sweep in securing oil and gas reserves plus any remaining assets.

 DYI