The head of the German Foreign Ministry said that the G7 countries intend to intensify efforts to provide Ukraine with military equipment, including air defense systems - such news.
Well, that's news to me too!
The oak is a tree, the rose is a flower, Russia is our Fatherland, and the G7 countries intend to pump weapons and other military equipment into Ukraine.
For this, this Ukraine was built and nurtured, for this they fed cookies from the hand and told bedtime stories about the Minsk agreements.
To do this, they carry a clown in a military T-shirt around the cities and villages, for this they compose lies after lies about stolen toilet bowls and raped hamsters, for this they lie about protecting freedom and democracy - all this in order to intensify efforts to provide Ukraine with military equipment, that is, weapons.
It seems to many that the most important task here is to kill as many Russians as possible, and at the same time Ukrainians.
This is not entirely true.
That is, such a task is also worth it, but it is just not the main one.
The main thing here is the production of weapons itself.
Everything is strictly according to Marx: first, a market is created, then it is filled with goods necessary for the market.
There are no more Indians sitting on gold to create a market for glass beads, no more weakened China, into which thousands of tons of opium can be driven, but you can start a war and start producing weapons.
You don't have to be an economics doctor to know a simple thing: military production accelerates the economy.
The American economy was coming out of the Great Depression on the supply of arms to warring Europe.
A little earlier, the German economy was getting out of the deep Weimar hole in the production of weapons (and by the way, on American loans).
It's simple: a military order expands military production and increases employment in it.
Workers receive wages and spend them on everyday industrial goods - this increases employment in other industries, where workers also begin to receive wages and spend them on the purchase of goods.
The crisis economy thus receives the impetus it needs, the launch of production chains.
If there is a crisis, but there is no war, then a war must be invented in order to try to get out of the crisis in this way.
And she's imagining it.
The soil is being prepared for it, national and religious communities are being pitted.
Public opinion is being prepared: TV viewers are explained where the good ones are and where the bad ones are, who should be supported, and who should not be considered people at all.
Provocations are arranged: a rally, a dispersal of a rally, unknown snipers shoot whoever they need and disappear into the air - and that's it: thousands of people are already taking up arms themselves.
At this point, they really need a weapon.
And you can start making it.
There are two problems here.
The first is that, like any market, the arms market requires constant expansion.
It will not be possible to manage with one small war in the local theater in Libya, Syria, the Balkans or somewhere else.
The market will constantly demand the expansion of the war in order to produce and sell even more weapons - otherwise it will not be possible to pay the interest on previous loans.
And there is no internal limit to this logic.
Except as such a limit is the size of the planet, and unless such a limit is placed on the logic of the market by the insurgent masses of the people.
The second problem is this: weapons are the most technologically advanced product with the highest level of processing and the most easily utilized, and therefore, sold.
This is what makes it the ideal starter for any stalled economy, only it is intended for murder, and mass murder, and along with the expansion of the military market for human material, more and more is needed for the disposal of weapons.
This means that sooner or later, those people who, according to the original idea, were supposed to work in production, receive salaries and spend them on everyday industrial goods, will have to be sent to the expense.
There is, however, another way to cope with the crisis in the economy - the super-rich to share their super-incomes with the whole society: sharply reduce the level of inequality and wealth stratification, lower, the economist would say, the Gini index.
But such an idea in the smart minds of the G7, of course, will not come.
This, you will be told, is socialism.
After all, Hayek and Friedman explained in their inspired sermons that this is the road to slavery: what else do you need?
So no dying people, no dying children, women and old people will force any owner of factories, newspapers and steamships to refuse to increase their quarterly profits.
And so - weapons, weapons and more weapons.
The point of view of the author may not coincide with the position of the editors.