Never to Early To Start I Guess

[Bones26]

I gather it is never too early to start the propaganda campaign for the next scenario in the Endless War campaign....

If there is any good news in this is that it would appear the intention is to wind down the Ukraine conflict in about 4-5 years before the fun starts up again in the Pacific

CNAS Gaming Lab Leads Wargame on NBC's Meet the Press

Developing strong, pragmatic and principled national security and defense policies.

www.cnas.org

If one ever needs evidence of the unholy marriage between the MIC and the MSM all brought to you by Pfizer, you need look no further.

I'm sorry but sometimes you just gotta give your head a shake

Cheers!

 

[Bones26]

To quote Maya Angelou..."When somebody shows you who they are, believe them"

Another MIC / MSM mashup

Current US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin:

Immediately after retiring as CENTCOM Commander, Austin joined the board of Raytheon Technologies, a military contractor, in April 2016. As of October 2020, his Raytheon stock holdings were worth roughly $500,000 and his compensation, including stock, totaled $2.7 million. He also operates a consulting firm and has been a partner at Pine Island Capital, an investment company with which Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Michèle Flournoy are affiliated.

Current US Secretary of State Antony Blinken:

In 2017, Blinken co-founded WestExec Advisors, a political strategy advising firm, with Michèle Flournoy, Sergio Aguirre, and Nitin Chadda. WestExec's clients have included surveillance drone manufacturer Shield AI, which signed a $7.2 million contract with the Air Force,. According to Foreign Policy, the firm's clientele includes "the defense industry, private equity firms, and hedge funds". Blinken received almost $1.2 million in compensation from WestExec. In an interview with The Intercept, Flournoy described WestExec's role as facilitating relationships between Silicon Valley firms and the Department of Defense and law enforcement; Flournoy and others compared WestExec to Kissinger Associates.

Blinken, as well as other Biden transition team members Michele Flournoy, former Pentagon advisor, and Lloyd Austin, Secretary of Defense, are partners of private equity firm Pine Island Capital Partners, a strategic partner of WestExec. Pine Island's chairman is John Thain, the final chairman of Merrill Lynch before its sale to Bank of America. During the final stretch of Biden's presidential campaign, Pine Island raised $218 million for a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC), a public offering to invest in "defense, government service and aerospace industries"... Blinken is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and was previously a global affairs analyst for CNN.

Cheers!