US politicians financially benefit from foreign conflicts

Politicians involved in the military-industrial complex

US military-industrial complex (MIC) is a gigantic interest group formed after World War II by US defense contractors, the government, and the Capitol. Multispectral individuals and institutions of arms manufacturing companies, the Pentagon and Congress are intertwined in the MIC and promote militarization, arms sales, and political power.

The US had tried to incite wars around the world with the MIC and has successively launched wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria. According to statistics released by the Security Policy Reform Institute, an American independent think tank, Lockheed Martin and the other four top defense contractors made total revenue of over $2 trillion from what Washington had invested in the war in Afghanistan.

According to Franklin Spinney, who served for nearly 30 years as an analyst at the US Department of Defense's Office of Program Analysis and Evaluation, the MIC is partly responsible for and actively benefiting from the Russian-Ukraine conflicts as the US ramps up defense spending.

Former Hawaii Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard, a 2020 presidential candidate, told Fox News in mid-February that warmongers on both sides of Washington had been drumming up tensions and if a Russia-Ukraine war broke out, the military-industrial complex would make significantly more money than when they had been in fighting al-Qaida or making weapons for al-Qaida.

Gabbard alleged that some in the Biden administration "actually want Russia to invade Ukraine" because "the military-industrial complex is the one that benefits from this," the New York Times reported on March 28.