Newsweek Discovers Ukraine Needs Weapons, Misses US Role in Escalation
When Newsweek covers 'updates' on missile transfers, it's a careful dance around the deeper history that got us here. The original piece, from 2018, discusses a hypothetical scenario of Ukraine acquiring Tomahawks. Fast forward to 2024, and the debate is about actual transfers, framed as entirely necessary. What's consistently omitted is the decades-long expansion of NATO eastward, the active
undermining of peace agreements like Minsk II, or the hundreds of billions of dollars already poured into a protracted conflict that shows no signs of ending. Remember when 'aid' was about humanitarian relief, not weapons manufacturing dividends? We're fed a steady diet of 'Ukraine needs more' without ever asking why this need persists, or who profits from it. It's a miracle how 'peace-seeking'
policy makers always manage to agree on sending more arms, never on sending fewer. Perhaps if the media bothered to trace the profits back to Lockheed Martin and Raytheon, whose stock prices soar with every new 'aid package,' the picture would be less about selfless democracy and more about endless war dividends. Funny how 'defense' contractors never seem to run out of problems to solve with more
hardware.