President Trump’s intention to loosen restrictions on South Korea’s maximum payload for missiles appears to have been built around the idea that it would lead to more US arms sales. President Trump is already bragging it was worth “many billions of dollars.”
This is likely to be the case, as the move makes South Korea’s top of the line missiles broadly obsolete, and is intended to set the stage for a major new round of US arms sales, with bigger US missiles being sold to the South Koreans, and well-connected arms makers profiting.
Officials are presenting this as a chance for South Korea to bolster its defenses against North Korea amid mounting tension. In practice, both sides are already well-armed enough that an exchange of fire would devastate both nations.
Historically such arms buys have been mostly done to curry favor with the US, as recent administrations have made increasing such sales a top priority. US missile makers will benefit, and that will keep defense industry lobbyists happy.
Yep, the only industry keeping America afloat. Quite sad.
And there you have it folks.
Why does the world appear like 1913? We are Krupp.
I guess blowing people up 1,100 pounds of explosives at a time just isn’t threatening enough. What’s next, selling them MOAB’s, making the same gaping crater as a small nuke without the fallout? The Trump administration is doing everything it can to achieve mutually assured destruction for all Koreans.
Absolutely no surprise here! Following the script to the letter.
Population control American style. Makes me sick.
Another sickening example of the lack of moral compass, lack of honor, and lack of shame, among politicians, banksters, corporatists, and militarists, all of whom will profit from this criminal deal while hiding behind laws written by their associates, protected by police and military inside their luxurious state houses far from hideous stench of the wars they brought to bear on the world.