As Biden Taps Billionaire Dem to Oversee Ukraine's Business, More Insiders Are Enriched From the War. PLUS: Gabor Mate on the Explosion of Anti-Depressants in the West | SYSTEM UPDATE #148
System Update with Glenn Greenwald
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🗓️ 16 September 2023
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| 0:00.0 | And the Good evening. It's Friday, September 15th. Welcome to a new episode of |
| 0:19.6 | System Update. Our live nightly show that airs every Monday through Friday at 7 p.m. |
| 0:24.0 | Eastern exclusively here on rumble the free speech alternative to YouTube tonight it's |
| 0:29.4 | not exactly a secret that while the vast majority of Americans are paying a real price for the |
| 0:34.7 | endless war in Ukraine, higher energy prices, higher debt and debt servicing, threats to needed |
| 0:41.2 | domestic programs, there is a tiny sliver of the richest Americans who are profiting |
| 0:46.2 | greatly and will continue to do so for as long as Congress funds this war with no one in sight. |
| 0:52.3 | Among them, the lucky ones are the US armed industry, |
| 0:55.4 | companies like Raytheon, Boeing, and Lockheed, |
| 0:57.9 | which donate massive amounts of money to both parties |
| 1:00.9 | and have former top executives running key government agencies including the |
| 1:04.6 | Pentagon, as well as the CIA and other parts of the Pentagon and intelligence agencies |
| 1:09.5 | whose budgets, authorities, and secret powers always skyrocket during US wars. |
| 1:16.1 | And that illustrious list of those enriching themselves from the US-funded war most definitely |
| 1:20.9 | includes the various oligarchs, corporate corrupt politicians, and other hangers-on who |
| 1:27.1 | populate the power centers of Kiev and are responsible for the country's longstanding reputation as the most corrupt in Europe. |
| 1:35.4 | The money is flying around and those are the people hovering it up. |
| 1:39.2 | Along with others, we have done substantial reporting on how on this show documenting how Western arms dealers |
| 1:45.8 | and corrupt elements in Kiev are enriching themselves greatly at the expense of the American taxpayer |
| 1:50.4 | that's funding this war. But there is another very powerful group of |
| 1:54.2 | profiteers waiting in the wings like vulters to swoop down on Ukraine as soon |
| 1:59.2 | as there is something resembling a peace and they may end up being though this war's most successful |
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