Following the Money: War is still a Racket
Ukraine profiteering futures
Aside from organ sales and child sex trafficking, how many avenues are there for war profiteering in Ukraine’s future?
Perpetuating the ‘Ukraine vs Russia’ war narrative ensures that the profit streams are extended—while the propaganda media blitz keeps the narratives alive which spurs the U.S. Treasury printing presses into action.
The nefarious shenanigans continue, despite the fact that the bamboozlement has become too transparent to deny as a harsh reality, and perhaps just another déjà vu moment for these times:
War = Big Profits for a select group of Players… A familiar story…
If there’s war, then there’s money to be made.
In the financial world, Financial Times reported on June 19 that:
“BlackRock and JPMorgan Chase are working with the Ukrainian government on a reconstruction bank that would “steer” public seed capital into rebuilding projects that can attract hundreds of billions of dollars in private investment.”
“The Ukraine Development Fund remains in the planning stages and is not expected to fully launch until the end of hostilities with Russia. But investors will have a preview this week at a London conference co-hosted by the British and Ukrainian governments.”
But with Putin’s government and war effort in turmoil, it appears the investment opportunity, which will no doubt include taxpayer funds.
“The World Bank estimated in March that Ukraine would need $411bn to rebuild after the war …
…and recent Russian attacks have driven that figure higher. The Kyiv government engaged BlackRock’s consulting arm in November to determine how best to attract that kind of capital, and then added JPMorgan in February.
Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced last month that the country was working with the two financial groups and consultants at McKinsey. No formal fundraising target has been set but people familiar with the discussions say the fund is seeking to raise low-cost capital from governments, donors and international financial institutions and leverage it to attract between five and 10 times as much private investment,” Financial Times reported last week.
https://mustreadalaska.com/warlord-vs-putin-russia-rebellion-underway/
Then there’s this example of shoddy accounting, or just a lack of managerial oversight:
Pentagon error provides extra $6.2 billion for Ukraine military aid
https://www.militarytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2023/06/20/pentagon-error-provides-extra-62-billion-for-ukraine-military-aid/
Pentagon spokeswoman Sabrina Singh said a detailed review of the accounting error found that the military services used replacement costs rather than the book value of equipment that was pulled from Pentagon stocks and sent to Ukraine.
“She said final calculations show there was an error of $3.6 billion in the current fiscal year and $2.6 billion in the 2022 fiscal year, which ended last Sept. 30.”
As a result, the department now has additional money in its coffers to use to support Ukraine as it pursues its counteroffensive against Russia. And it comes as the fiscal year is wrapping up and congressional funding was beginning to dwindle.
“It’s just going to go back into the pot of money that we have allocated” for the future Pentagon stock drawdowns,” said Singh.
As one example of a stock analyst’s perspective on military-industrial profit potential:
Projected profit increases
George Webb has been on the case:
Quick takeaways and a little math:
How to creatively launder a mere $6.2 Billion?
Could we put $6.2 bn to better use in the US? …Perhaps bolstering the security at our borders and thwarting drug cartels with its gang members poised to set up Fentanyl franchises in US cities.
And yet—this is the figure that caught my attention: “Ukraine would need $411bn to rebuild after the war.” How do the DoD accountants come up with these figures anyhow?
$411 bn sounds like half a Trillion dollars to my ears. And what does this actually mean in terms of rebuilding the Ukrainian infrastructure? …Rebuilding the bioweapons labs? …Refurbishing adrenochrome manufacturing facilities? …Clearing out the bombed D.U.M.B.S. so that child trafficking routes can be rebuilt?
The DoD has always been creative with its bookkeeping tactics, no doubt. Not to forget that Vlad Zelenskyy comes out of this fiasco as the highest-paid actor over the last three years—and plausibly, highest-paid ‘char-actor’ and frontman over the last ten years. Some folks on the ‘wars-for-profit’ A-list seem to keep on collecting a paycheck even after the war is over. If this is a comedy, then it’s a very dark comedy and perhaps a sequel to the movie, “Idiocracy.”
It’s not difficult to default to sarcasm and wonder how the Capitalism Insurance Alliance (NATO) will make a tidy profit on the brokering deals during Ukraine’s Great Economic Reset. On the other hand, the cost of war often affects another company’s profit schemes negatively—as happened with Haliburton at the beginning of the Russian/Ukraine war:
In September of 2022— “The U.S. oilfield services corporation Halliburton announced it has fully exited the Russian market in response to the invasion of Ukraine.”
“Halliburton warned in April that the Russian government could seize its $340 million assets and charge its earnings over its withdrawal from the market.”
What transpired was a financial “restructuring” or “reallocation” of Haliburton’s tech and asset pool:
“The Russia-based management team now owns and operates Halliburton’s former business and assets in Russia under the name BurService LLC, which is independent from Halliburton”
Warfare exacts its toll—some will win and some will lose. Only Oligarchs with governmental connections can apply!
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2022/09/09/halliburton-completes-russia-exit-over-ukraine-war-a78752
Then there are the relics and sacred objects of art in Kyiv:
Ukraine’s Culture Minister Oleksandr Tkachenko maintained that “not a single sacred relic will leave the territory of Ukraine.”
“The only task we have now regarding the Lavra is to protect it from the Russian world and finally verify that all our Ukrainian sacred relics are in place,” he wrote.
I get a certain warm and fuzzy feeling knowing that the religious art is beyond reach in any post-war profiteering scheme. The religious relics are sacred— and therefore, off the bargaining table!
…All ye art dealers and potential art thieves take note.
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2023/06/26/why-a-siberian-shaman-is-a-thorn-in-the-kremlins-side-a81639
My informed suspicions are that significant plunder will always be found in the military-industrial laundering cycles…all else is low-level black market fare, or the continuance of the street drug trade. [speaking of the drug trade—a note of interest: when I tried to research ‘a-chrome’ profits, and state-of-the-art intel on the chemical compound— I consistently came up against a firewall: “404 not found error”…" ‘nothing to see here…a-chrome is a myth!’]
Liz Crokin smeared by Ben Sixsmith(nice pseudonym)
[note: anti-Trumpisms are the dead giveaway re so many smear attempts.]
And that’s the way it is… (for now)
Here in the US, the Hollywood Left supports the continuance of the Ukraine laundering business.
More money trails:
GEORGE WEBB:
Today is a busy day for US Military in the air! 394 flights in sight (sans stealth cloaking.)
Hobbies:
*What is the 404 error?…and how to potentially fix it:
https://www.howtogeek.com/353486/how-to-fix-a-404-not-found-error/
The Spectator (cia shill?) published the article written by Ben Sixsmith (link below-from 2020) that discredits the narratives re pizzagate; child sex trafficking (and organ harvesting I may also presume); and adrenochrome as the drug used by the Hollywood elite.
A popular pastime?…Reviewing the deep state’s damage-control efforts:
https://thespectator.com/uncategorized/fear-adrenochrome-conspiracy-theory-drug/