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Golden Dome Iron Dome
Military Industrial Complex

Saying the quiet part out loud: All that glitters is not 'Golden Dome'

It may be what insiders call a 'monster systems engineering problem' but contractors are all too happy to indulge the dream

Lobby Horse
QiOSK

Lobby Horse: Selling war where it counts, in DC metros and buses

The Beltway is where all deals happen, so like it or not you cannot escape the big sell

Emmanuel Macron Annalena Baerbock
Europe

European militarism on steroids is not good, either

Lacking in any strategic thinking, a new bellicism has swept up the elites and gone into cataclysmic overdrive in recent weeks

Washington DC pentagon
Military Industrial Complex

Spending 5% of GDP on military now would be absolutely nuts

The system cannot accommodate such growth, and even more, it’s not necessary to defend the country — unless Washington wants WWIII

Biden
Washington Politics

Biden's 'foreign policy for the middle class' was a bust

Why not call it what it was — a boon for arms industry executives — the one percent

NATO mark rutte jens stoltenberg
Europe

NATO countries spending 3%? That's empire.

Mark Rutte wants Cold War spending but Russia is in no way the same adversary, calling into question real motives