That's the neat part, they get richer whether the war is happening or not. Some get way richer when there's a war on.

The US ended most of their subsidies to Ukraine last year. Historically the defense-industrial complex is eager to stir something else up as soon as one money source gets cut off.

After Afghanistan it went to Ukraine, and after Ukraine it has to be something else. This is the unstoppable flow of the defense industry moving to a new outlet.

	▲	metabagel 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		The U.S. didn't invade Ukraine. We gave Ukraine a lot of old stuff from our stockpiles and bought new stuff for ourselves. It's generally not called a "subsidy". It's called "foreign aid".