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Originally Posted by TheSquealer
That's silly and naive speculation, not fact. The US and Russia are not involved in a very unstable and troubled region in the eart of a bigger unstable and troubled region because they need to sell 2,000,000.00 worth of AK-47's. if it was some African shithole... maybe.
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Originally Posted by sperbonzo
Sorry, but there is nothing about this that is pure capitalism. Under pure capitalism, there would be no government trading with anyone, (using money taken by force from people in the form of taxes, inflation of fiat currency, or borrowing).
Pure capitalism is the free, peaceful, and voluntary exchange of goods and services between freely associating people.
What you should have said is that this is pure corporate cronyism, with is entirely different.
..... just sayin... 
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Using these sorts of conflicts it is very easy to repatriate revenue and fund whatever you want. The "chaos of war" is a good excuse for funds to go missing or very large no bid contracts, etc. 20 bil may not seem like a lot to you, but it is a lot to the people who control things and it is easier to get it with no scrutiny by having a bunch of little, asymetrical unmonitored conflicts outside the range of US accountants.