it's stupid because there are ways of turning a profit without killing thousands of people while turning your own country into a pariah ridiculed by the whole world. It's stupid because it's shortsighted.
I want to see it that way too but it seems they've been winning for a very long time with this approach. So is it short-sighted?
The way I see it there is a deep systemic issue beneath this which makes this profitable. That's the flaw which has to be solved.
Private entities should not be able to profit from taxpayer money on such vast scales. Military contacts are massive, foreign aid is massive. It takes from a large number of public hands and gives to a small number of private hands. Diffuse harms, concentrated gains.
I hope you're right though and those issues will be fixed.
The way I see it there is a deep systemic issue beneath this which makes this profitable. That's the flaw which has to be solved.
Private entities should not be able to profit from taxpayer money on such vast scales. Military contacts are massive, foreign aid is massive. It takes from a large number of public hands and gives to a small number of private hands. Diffuse harms, concentrated gains.
I hope you're right though and those issues will be fixed.