US Diplomats becoming weapons salesmen

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  • January 9, 2017 at 8:49 am #62877
    wv
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    Obama Sold More Weapons Than Any President Since WW II
    link:https://popularresistance.org/obama-sold-more-weapons-than-any-president-since-ww-ii/

    …“What’s changed during the Obama administration is that increasing arms sales has become a standardized component of diplomacy at all levels of government, not just in the defense department,” Bockenfeld told Motherboard. “For US diplomats to become the salesmen, that has been a new element which really increased exports.”…

    January 9, 2017 at 8:58 am #62878
    Billy_T
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    wv wrote:

    Obama Sold More Weapons Than Any President Since WW II
    link:https://popularresistance.org/obama-sold-more-weapons-than-any-president-since-ww-ii/

    …“What’s changed during the Obama administration is that increasing arms sales has become a standardized component of diplomacy at all levels of government, not just in the defense department,” Bockenfeld told Motherboard. “For US diplomats to become the salesmen, that has been a new element which really increased exports.”…

    Not just weapons. The State Department went after public, non-profit infrastructure, especially in Central and South America, on behalf of our capitalists. To force those much, much weaker nations to privatize.

    That is unconscionable and should be illegal. As with the weapons proliferation.

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