Now that the defense industry in the United States has taken a bit of a budgeting hit at home, they’re getting more aggressive overseas. Defense contractors are opening satellite offices and selling arms as fast as they can into the chaos of the Middle East.
Between the fight against ISIS and the war in Yemen, more Arab countries are getting into the act and using their arsenals. US companies are supplying the planes, bombs, missiles and other weapons everywhere from Libya and Iraq to Yemen and Pakistan. We’ve got a very busy little military industrial complex these days.
It’s nothing new that the United States is the biggest arms dealer in the world, I just think it’s worth noting that we have a hand in nearly every war currently under way. What looks like crazy countries battling over religion, politics or resources far away from our shores, is closer to home when you peel back the layers to find out who is supplying those weapons. Be sure to like, comment, share and dig into some of the links behind the cartoon.
[military defense contractor]
Welcome to another sales seminar here at Death and Destruction, Incorporated!
Your mission? SELL!
As you know, we’re the world’s number one collection of arms dealers, with the strongest sales team in the business!
American Exceptionalism begins with defense contractors at home, and ends with exceptional profits abroad!
So sales are down a little state-side, that’s when you go abroad, goddammit!
Proxy war, sectarian war, counter-terror war— whatever you call it, it’s a profit war!
F-15s for the Saudis. Drones and jets for the Emirates. Missiles for Egypt! (Almost lost a client to the Ruskies, there.)
And since Israel’s enemy’s enemy is our friend, we’re dealin’!
Emirs, kings, sheiks and dictators— if you can’t stomach the strongmen, I guess you can’t stomach the profits!
We’re selling— like hellfire from above! Oh wait, those are Hellfires from above!
We just sold a thousand of ‘em to Pakistan!
It’s politics up front and profits in the back!
We sell to Shiites in Iraq who fight Sunnis, and sell to Sunnis in the Gulf who fight Shiites!
Chaos never looked so good . . . and profitable!
Death and Destruction Incorporated— now get out there and SELL!