… As of today, all the people in all of our armed forces and within the defense and security sector is up to one million people. The frontline where there is active combat in more than 1,000 kilometers long. First, you have to understand that the frontline is 2,500 kilometers long. Sharapov: The is concentrating currently on fulfilling all the needs of the armed forces. What message do you have for them? And what do you need from them urgently? Our readers are about 1,800 corporate members of the defense industrial base in the United States. So that’s why we are really hoping for the support of those governments. It doesn’t matter whether we work with private enterprises or government enterprises, any weapon transfer is made upon the decision of the government. There are constant government negotiations on all levels, diplomatic levels, military levels, ministry-to-ministry - both ministers of foreign affairs, ministers of defense - I believe this is not only an ongoing dialogue, but this is unprecedented dialogue.
Sharapov: So those are parallel processes. What are your expectations since they normally sell through their own countries? What’s the purpose of talking with companies and not countries? …Īt Eurosatory this week, you’re meeting a lot of defense companies. Volodymyr Karpenko, land forces command logistics commander, spoke with National Defense Editor in Chief Stew Magnuson and other reporters through an interpreter in the Ukraine Ministry of Defense’s booth at the Eurosatory conference in Paris on June 15. The war-torn nation desperately needs artillery and artillery rounds, but what can truly give it the upper hand over its Russian invaders are long-range precision weapons such as armed Predator drones, loitering munitions and the multiple launch rocket system.ĭenys Sharapov, Ukraine’s deputy minister of the defense in charge of procurement, support for weapons and equipment, and Brig. Defense Industry: We Need Long-Range, Precision Weapons (UPDATED)” Here are relevant highlights from an interview with Ukraine’s Government, at a major recent international trade-show by U.S.-and-allied weapons manufacturers, as published by the trade magazine for America’s armaments-industry, National Defense, whose publisher is the National Defense Industrial Association: Perhaps the world’s largest and most effective marketing organization for U.S.-and-allied armaments manufacturers is NATO, but many others (perhaps not so well known) also exist, and sometimes provide more candid information to the public. And this is the way that capitalism functions and it is the way that imperialism (which is a natural adjunct to capitalism, because capitalism serves investors above all - not workers, nor consumers, but specifically investors) has always functioned, in order to produce wars (which serve only the wealthiest). These investors also tend to control their nation’s ‘news’media, because those businesses validate the Government’s “allies” and “enemies” and thereby validate its invasions (so as to pump their weapons-sales). These investors therefore need to control, above all, their own Government, in order for them to succeed, to be, themselves, “winners” at the investing-game. The key here is that in order to maximize the profits of armaments-firms’ investors, they need to control their own Government, because that Government will determine which other nations are also markets (“us”), and which other nations are instead targets (“them,” or “enemies”). Both “allies” and “enemies” are needed, in order for these investors to have a thriving armaments industry and both “allies” and “enemies” are needed in order for those companies to have markets (their own nation, and its “allies”) and to have targets (the “enemies”). Also, in order for their weapons to be able to be used, target-nations are needed, whom those armaments-investors (and their news-media) declare to be their nations’ “enemies” and consequently to be lands that their weapons should be targeted against (if “enemy”) or to defend (if “ally”). and its allies, the people who control the decisions are actually private investors, and profits are their main (or only) objective and, so, the controlling investors in ‘defense’ firms hire agents (including politicians) in order to control each of their main markets, which are their own country and the countries that those investors are allied with. In a country such as Russia, where all of the weapons-manufacturing firms are 50%+ owned by (controlled by, and serve) the Government itself, profits are not the main objective, national-defense is but, in a fully (or nearly fully) capitalist country, such as the U.S.
The war business is extremely profitable, because governments are willing to spend anything in order to win.
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