Global Research: 02-01-2025,
Weaponizing Wars
NATO’s missile-makers weaponize Russo-Ukrainian hostilities to land lucrative orders. Missiles, they claim, visibly transform battlefields whilst presaging tactical nuclear warfare. With NATO-missiles already best-in-class, money must flow toward production increases needed to deploy these masterpieces decisively in real-world combat. Governments must ensure:
- NATO-missiles reign supreme;
- NATO’s missile-makers reap international sales;
- Commercial applications of missile R&D spin-off to crony-capitalists.
Lobbyists say missile expenditures bless myriads of Natonians with well-paid, skill-enhancing jobs. Missile investment buys broad economic stimulus, and hones sunrise industries like digital navigation, situational awareness, computer simulation and hypersonic rocketry. Missilemakers sustain chipmakers.
(CHIPS and Science Act, 2022 aims $50 billion in tax-breaks, loan guarantees and R&D funding at helping Americans build chips in America. CHIPS won bipartisan support and prompted: European Chips Act, 2022.)
NATO-states give Ukraine 40+ types of: surface-to-air-missile, anti-tank guided missile, surface-to-surface missile, guided glide-bomb, air-to-air missile, unmanned aerial combat vehicle, air-to-surface missile, and guided howitzer round. Each require state-of-the-art sensors, transmitters, computers etc. Precision-missile warfare necessitates state-commanded expansion of microchip production capacity.
If Ukraine fails to elicit consensus for upscaling output, other conflicts will be weaponized. This war, however, remains missile-makers’ bird-in-hand. This war could yield game-changing sales; moreover, this war presents unpassable opportunities for blunting blades upon Russian plate.