You may find the following article educational:
Billions go towards supporting a massive global arms industry that reaps the benefits of conflicts around the world.
businessjournalism.org
OMG! Could you have picked a more radical Leftist article to cite?
The author's bio:
Sahara Sajjadiankhah
Sahara Sajjadi is a recent graduate from Arizona State University, holding a
bachelors in political science with minors in
women studies and justice studies, along with a certificate in cross sector leadership. She is now pursuing a master’s in mass communications at the Cronkite School. During her undergrad, she was involved with several different organizations, serving as the president of ASU Young Dems, a curriculum developer and content creator for the Sexual and Relationship Violence Prevention program, a tutor at RISE (Refugee Integration, Stability, and Education,) and a regular volunteer in the community.
She's as hard Left as they come and a rabid activist.
Her article is about defense contractors--a necessary evil in the world--making a profit off of developing and selling arms to governments. Note the plural on that. Most of the contractors she lists sell arms not just to the US, a point she briefly makes.
From there she tries to make an argument that these contractors are evil because they support with munitions groups and countries she vehemently opposes while using them on various groups that she as a radical Leftist supports. She tries to back this up with inane commentary from a fellow radical Leftist activist Firoz Azizi.
In between she makes numerous sweeping generalizations like:
According to the International Humanitarian Law, civilians must be protected amidst war and warring entities cannot utilize indiscriminate attacks that could potentially impact civilians.
That doesn't equate to no civilian casualties, just the need to minimize them. But, of course, that doesn't fit her chosen narrative.
Her conclusion, unsupported, is this:
Profit is the primary objective.
Her support for that conclusion is solely based on Azizi's opinion foisted on her which she, of course, greedily gloms onto as it is her own too.
Reading that article was a waste of time and I want those 10 minutes (including typing this post) back.
