Military Contractors Ecstatic To Arm Ukraine With Drones

Ukraine is asking for highly sophisticated “Hunter – Killer Drones,” and the defense industry is begging the government to make this happen. Mike Papantonio & Farron Cousins discuss more.

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Ukraine is asking for highly sophisticated hunter killer drones and the defense industry, well, they're begging the government to please make these, make these available in Ukraine. First of all, have you ever been more concerned? I mean, in, in your lifetime about how close we are to a potential nuclear conflict caused by Ukraine that now we're, we're giving them long range missiles that can hit Moscow. NATO is giving them long range missiles that can hit, hit Moscow. But this is a, this is a dream for the weapons industry. So they, they've tried to launch this idea about the hunter killer drone and we, we've used it in Afghanistan. We've used it in Somalia. We've used it all, Yemen, all, all over the world. But it hasn't been talked about. Explain what this is, with the hell fire missile and the killer drone.

Yeah. These, these are the drones basically we send in when we're not worried about civilian casualties at all.

Mm-hmm.

We just want to kill as many people as quickly and quietly as possible. Sort the bodies out later. Then announce, hey, two of the people we got were bad, guys, you know, the other 10 weren't. It was a family getting into a car. We covered that story.

Mm-hmm.

But now Ukraine says, well, guys, we need these. We, we really need these over here. So what's even worse is you have retired generals going out in the media, selling this idea to the public, you know, telling people that, oh, no, this might be our only way to help Ukraine. Oh, this might be the only way to stop this evil, brutal dictator over in Russia. And yeah, Putin is terrible. Nothing that he has done is justified. But we are inching closer to getting the US fully involved in a war in Europe.

Yeah. $40 billion here. Now long range missiles. Now, what the weapons industry loves about this is it normalizes it, you see. Now, now people know, yeah, we got the hunter killer missile being used. Weapons, this is a gold mine, a gold mine for the weapons industry. And that's what this is about. That's what that $40 billion was about. That's what Ukraine in general is about, is the weapons industry. This is a big payday for the weapons industry. Now I have tried to find just quick look where corporate media has even talked about this. This is, this is tail wagging the dog. It's the weapons industry that is escalating a war into where this is the first time since the Cuban missile crisis, where Americans probably should have been very concerned about nuclear war. I, if, if you have children and you're not paying attention to this, this is just another brick in the wall, isn't it?

Right. And, and every time we send a new shipment of weapons over there to Ukraine, Russia amps up their rhetoric.

Right.

They ramp up their attacks. Their media last week was already saying, we should basically already consider this World War III.

Yeah.

Not approaching World War III. We're pretty much in it right now. And we, you know, they're not ruling out the use of nuclear weapons. Now, maybe that's a, just a talking point.

No, it's not.

But that's the thing, is.

No, no. Putin is not a well person to begin with. Okay.

Exactly.

You have the oligarchs who are very concerned about his mental health and his physical health. Okay. When he makes a threat like that, understand he comes from, he comes from a generation that was well aware that in the second World War Russia lost 26 million people, mostly from Germany. Germany was the people. That's why you see, still see that hostility between Germany and, and, and, and Russia. And unfortunately, Germany has a big input as to these long range missiles. They're talking about Germany.

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