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RE: Perpetual Violence Is Expensive
Human life is not expensive at all to the people in charge, and they are selling those weapons for a profit. No, they are not cheap, but they are the ones profiting from the sale of them. War is actually very profitable. If it wasn't, there wouldn't be any, right? Where does everyone think the trillions of dollars went? A lot of it went into defense contractor company owner's pockets.
I mostly agree, but they aren't getting rich selling weapons to impoverished Somalis. They are funding and arming the war, as a means to seize control of resources, directly or by way of a new ruling class.
Agreed. The real profit is in the economic resources the conflicts secure. Heck, a lot of the more recent wars have literally been physical gold heists.