How the US defense industry's greed led to the Ukraine war

By Rigoberto D. Tiglao

Jun 21, 2023 12:09 am

WHAT struck me most in the letter by American national security experts condemning the US for provoking Russia to invade Ukraine (which I posted in this column last Monday, June 19) were the following assertions:

'Why did the US persist in expanding NATO despite repeated warnings [by its own security officials and by Russia]? Profit from weapons sales was a major factor. Facing opposition to NATO expansion, a group of neoconservatives and top executives of US weapons manufacturers formed the US Committee to Expand NATO.

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