2024 US Presidential Election

[Belacqua]

Recently several media outlets carried a story quoting a politician who said that the US was sending its old stock of weapons to Ukraine so that they could use them up, and this allowed America to buy all new ones. This was reported as a GOOD THING. It was pointed out on more left-wing, anti-war sites that the only people who really benefit from this are the arms manufacturers.

...and their employees

You're certainly correct. Many parts of the US economy benefit if there's a war going on. 

Everybody knows that when there's a billion-dollar military aid package for some war somewhere, the majority of the money stays in the US.

Suffering far away means profit in the US.

So the idea that the US could move away from a wartime economy to a peacetime economy seems inconceivable, given the powers that be. This is why the corporate media and the arms dealers, etc., work together to justify violence wherever possible.