The war economy is not always visible to the bare eye, especially not in an era dominated by propaganda.

But we are today in the midst of a war economy, whether we want to see it or not, at least in the West – where it is being taped-over by lies and slogans to the contrary.

If we the people do not act against the corrupt governments’ (primarily the EU / US) stealing of our social heritage, our social benefits that we, the people, have accumulated for our future, then nobody will.

And these funds, plus the funds for our regular budget of maintaining our infrastructure, will simply flow into a full armament, against an imaginary enemy, always the same since hundreds of years, Russia.

Russia is not an enemy. Russia is a potential friend.

And the so-called leaders of these so-called governments know it.

The money that belongs to the people, to the building blocks of our society, flows into the pockets of the military industrial complex and its billionaire owners. No matter whether there is a risk of war or not.

There is no risk, unless the West starts a war.

Russia certainly doesn’t.

Those who keep blindly, unknowingly, unwittingly keep aping the mainstream narrative, pretending that Russia is a danger, using Ukraine as an example — those people better read the history on how the war in Ukraine was prepared and actually created by the West, by NATO, as a proxy war for the US (plus the vassal EU) against the world’s by far largest and wealthiest country by resources, Russia.

Those who still believe this is pro-Russia propaganda better consult with former NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg. He knows how NATO created the justification for this war already in and before 2014. And he has said it repeatedly.

But nobody listened, and certainly the mainstream didn’t and doesn’t report the truth.

To the detriment of the  Planet’s more than 8 Billion People.

Renowned economist Peter Koenig addresses the complexities of “the war economy”.

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Peter Koenig is a geopolitical analyst, regular author for Global Research, and a former Economist at the World Bank and the World Health Organization (WHO), where he worked for over 30 years around the world. He is the author of Implosion – An Economic Thriller about War, Environmental Destruction and Corporate Greed; and co-author of Cynthia McKinney’s book “When China Sneezes: From the Coronavirus Lockdown to the Global Politico-Economic Crisis” (Clarity Press – November 1, 2020).

Peter is a Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG). He is also a non-resident Senior Fellow of the Chongyang Institute of Renmin University, Beijing.

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