No Defence for the Defence Industry

The so-called “Defence” Industry is a $1.8Trillion Dollar Industry.  
Did you clock that?  
1.8 trillion dollar’s worth of activity hell bent on destruction:  
infrastructure, governments, agriculture, people’s houses, jobs.  
Jobs? Don’t those in favour of the so-called “Defence Industry”  
keep reminding us how many jobs are provided by the …  
… well let’s call a spade a spade … by the War Industry?  
Have you ever thought how many jobs are destroyed by the War Industry,  
how many livelihoods, self-employed, small-time farmers, shop-owners  
small businesses blown up by the big bullies?  
What do you think the 70 million people displaced by war were doing before?  
Well, they were working, that’s what - doing jobs, that’s what. O.K, half of them are children, but even so.  
So don’t give me that bull-shit about the War Industry providing jobs;  
it destroys jobs.  
… and people too, by the way, if you hadn’t noticed - about 30 million die from wars each year - never mind the maimed as the icing on the cake for psychotic developers of insane weapons.  
 
And what kind of jobs are they anyway? Does working on a bullet production-line make your heart sing? Does spending your undoubted engineering or computer talent developing weapons guidance systems feel like meaningful work?  
 
Have you ever wondered why millions of refugees are heading for Europe, stimulating the rise of far-right populist leaders - and national psychic meltdowns like Brexit?  
Well, their home countries have been blown up, destabilised, impoverished by war … that’s why they’re heading elsewhere - that’s why they’re called ‘refugees’ - they’re seeking refuge from bombs, that’s why.  
 
The big bullies have this game, you see - it’s called blowing up the Middle East - any country will do as long as it’s not Israel. - Let’s tick a few of them off shall we, since 1980: Iran (1980, 1987-1988), Libya (1981, 1986, 1989, 2011), Lebanon (1983), Kuwait (1991), Iraq (1991-2011, 2014-), Somalia (1992-1993, 2007-), Bosnia (1995), Saudi Arabia (1991, 1996), Afghanistan (1998, 2001- ongoing just in case you’d forgotten), Sudan (1998), Kosovo (1999), Yemen (2000, 2002-), Pakistan (2004-), Syria (2008-), and any moment now, Iran again.  And that’s just the Middle-East.  
 
Do you see what I’m getting at?  
The War Industry claims legitimacy as a mechanism of security & peace-making ... (What?!?)  
The War Industry claims legitimacy because it provides jobs ... (What?!?)  
The War Industry claims legitimacy as an economic stimulus ... (What?!?)  
 
What type of work would you rather do … ?  
It’s a choice.  
 
 
 
 
 
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