Vagadziri vezvombo veUS Vanoisa Mari muHondo Itsva YeCold

Exclusive: Seri kweUS media-nezvematongerwo enyika mhere mhere yeHondo Yemashoko neRussia ikudyara kwakakura neMasoja-Industrial Complex mu "matangi ekufunga" uye dzimwe nhepfenyuro dzenhema, anonyora Jonathan Marshall.

NaJohn Marshall, Consortium News

Mauto eUS akakunda hondo huru imwe chete kubva pakapera Hondo Yenyika II (Gulf War of 1990-91). Asi makondirakiti emauto eUS anoramba achihwina hondo huru dzebhajeti muCongress rinenge gore rega rega, zvichiratidza kuti hapana simba pasi pano rinogona kuramba kugona kwavo kwekukurudzira uye zvematongerwo enyika.

Funga nezvekufamba kwakasimba kuenda mukukunda kwechirongwa chikuru chezvombo chimwe munhoroondo - kutengwa kwakarongwa kwejeti dzeLockheed-Martin F-35 dzeAir Force, Navy, uye Marines pamutengo wakakwana we anopfuura $ 1 trillion.

Mauto eMhepo neMarines akazivisa kuti Joint Strike Fighter yakagadzirira kurwa, uye Congress yave kuita mari inopfuura mabhiriyoni emadhora pagore kuti iwane izvo zvinotarisirwa kuve ngarava ye2,400 jets.

Zvakadaro bhomba rinodhura zvakanyanya pasi rose harisati rashanda nemazvo uye rinogona kusamboita sekushambadzwa kwaro. Handizvo"dezinformatsiya” kubva kuRussia “information warfare” nyanzvi. Ndiwo maonero epamutemo emuongorori wezvombo wePentagon, Michael Gilmore.

In imwe Aug, 9 memo yakawanikwa neBloomberg News, Gilmore akayambira vakuru vePentagon kuti chirongwa cheF-35 "hachisi munzira inoenda kubudiriro asi chiri munzira yekutadza kuunza" zvivimbiso zvendege. Vati chirongwa ichi "chiri kupera nguva nemari yekupedzisa bvunzo dzakarongwa nendege uye kuita zvinogadziriswa nekugadzirisa."

Mukuru wemauto anoedza czar akataura kuti matambudziko akaomarara esoftware uye kushomeka kwekuyedza "kunoramba kuchiwanikwa pamwero wakakura." Nekuda kweizvozvo, ndege dzingatadza kuronda nhangemutange dziri pasi, kunyevera vatyairi vendege kana ma radar masisitimu evavengi vazviona, kana kushandisa bhomba richangogadzirwa. Kunyange pfuti yeF-35 inogona kusashanda zvakanaka.

Miedzo Inoparadza

Iyo yemukati Pentagon ongororo yaingove yazvino mune refu runyorwa rwe ongororo dzakakomba dzinoparadza uye zvipingamupinyi zvebudiriro zvendege. Zvinosanganisira kudzokororwa kwepasi kwendege nekuda kwemoto uye dzimwe nyaya dzekuchengetedza; kuwanikwa kwekusagadzikana kweinjini ine ngozi; uye ngowani dzinogona kukonzera whiplash inouraya. Ndege yakatorohwa zvine mutsindo mukunyomba neyakakura (uye yakachipa) F-16.

Gore rakapera, an chinyorwa mune inochengetedza National Review akapikisa kuti "dambudziko guru iro mauto eUS akatarisana naro mumakumi mashoma emakore anotevera haisi iyo inotakura-inouraya ngarava yekuChina inorwisa ngarava ballistic missile, kana kuwanda kweasingadhure yakanyarara dhiziri-magetsi kurwisa subs, kana kunyange Chinese neRussia anti-satellite zvirongwa. Kutyisidzira kukuru kunobva kuF-35. . . Kune iyi trillion-dollar-plus investimendi tinowana ndege inononoka kupfuura 1970s F-14 Tomcat, ndege ine isingasviki hafu yemhando ye40-year-old A-6 Intruder. . . uye ndege yakanga yakatambidzwa musoro wayo neF-16 panguva yemakwikwi embwa achangopfuura.”

Achifananidza iyo F-35 neyekare yakakundikana chirongwa chejeti yehondo, akarega basa Air Force Colonel Dan Ward yakacherechedzwa gore rakapera, “Zvichida mamiriro echokwadi eJoint Strike Fighter ndeekuti atevere makwara eF-22 uye nekupa kugona kurwa kusinganei nezvido zvemauto. Nenzira iyoyo, kana boka rose rengarava rikadzika pasi nekuda kwechikanganiso chisingagadzirisike, kukanganisa kwedu kwekuzvidzivirira hakuzovepo. "

Lockheed's "Pay-to-Play Ad Agency"

Kuuya kukudzivirira kwechirongwa nguva pfupi yadarika aive muongorori wemauto Dan Goure, mublog remagazini inoremekedzwa, Kufarira Kwenyika. Goure akazvidza vatsoropodzi muPentagon's Operational Test and Evaluation Office se "vanhu vakasvibira maziso, semagoblins kuGringot's muHarry Potter series."

Achitsanangura iyo F-35 se "puratifomu yekuchinja," akadaro, "kugona kwayo kushanda kusingaonekwe mumhepo ine hutsinye, kuunganidza ruzivo uye kunyange kunanga data pamusoro pemhepo yevavengi uye pasi pezvinangwa, isati yatanga kurwiswa kunoshamisa kunoratidza mukana wakajeka pamusoro pehurongwa huripo hwekutyisidzira. . . . . Iyo Joint Strike Fighter bvunzo chirongwa chiri kufambira mberi pamwero wekukurumidza. Zvikuru kusvika padanho, kunyangwe isati yapedza kuomarara kuita template yakarongwa neDOT&E, iyo F-35 yakaratidza hunyanzvi hunodarika chero murwi wazvino wekuMadokero. "

Kana izvo zvichiverenga zvishoma senge Lockheed-Martin yekushambadzira bhurocha, funga kwakabva. Muchinyorwa chake, Goure akazviratidza semutevedzeri wemutungamiri weLexington Institute, iyo mabhiri pachayo se "sangano risingabatsiri reruzhinji-policy rekutsvagisa rine dzimbahwe muArlington, Virginia."

Zvisina kutaurwa naGoure - uye Lexington Institute haiwanzo kuburitsa - ndezvekuti "inogamuchira mipiro kubva kuhofori dzedziviriro Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Northrop Grumman nevamwe, iyo inobhadhara Lexington kuti 'ataure nezvekudzivirira,'" maererano. 2010 profile inPolitico.

Pakuvamba kwegore rimwe chetero, Harper's mubatsiri Ken Silverstein akadana iyo yakambotaurwa nezvayo tangi "indasitiri yekudzivirira inobhadhara-to-kutamba ad agency." Akawedzera kuti, "Zvipfeko zvakaita seLexington zvinogadzira misangano yevatori venhau, mapepa ezvigaro uye maop-eds anoita kuti mari yemauto irambe ichiyerera kune makondirakiti ekudzivirira."

Kudyidzana kwaGoure naLockheed kunopa zano rekuti sei zvirongwa zvakaita seF-35 zvichiramba zvichibudirira kunyangwe kutadza kuita basa, kudhura kwakanyanya, uye kunonoka kurongeka kwaizokonzeresa kubvunzurudza kweCongress uye kuburitsa hova dzekutsamwa kubva kune Fox News vatsinhi. nezvekukundikana kwehurumende.

Kukurudzira Hondo Yemashoko Itsva

Funga matangi seLexington Institute ari prime movers kuseri kwemushandirapamwe wekuparadzira nhema kumutsiridza Hondo Yemashoko kurwisa nyika yeRussia yakaderera uye kupembedza zvirongwa zvezvombo zvakaita seF-35.

Sezvo Lee Fang zvakaonekwa munguva pfupi yapfuura in The Intercept, "Kuwedzera kunopesana neRussian rhetoric mumushandirapamwe wemutungamiri weUnited States kunouya pakati pekusundidzira kukuru kwevekondirakiti vemauto kuisa Moscow semuvengi ane simba anofanirwa kurwiswa nekuwedzera kukuru kwekushandiswa kwemauto nenyika dzeNATO."

Saka iyo Lockheed-yakabhadharwa Aerospace Industries Association Inonyevera kuti hutongi hwaObama huri kutadza kushandisa mari yakakwana pa "ndege, ngarava nehurongwa hwekurwisa pasi" kugadzirisa zvakakwana "kushungurudzwa kweRussia pamusuwo weNATO." The Lockheed- uye Pentagon-inotsigirwa nemariCenter for European Policy Analysis inopa rukova rwe alarmist inoshuma pamusoro pekutyisidzira kwemauto eRussia kuEastern Europe.

Uye iyo ine simba kwazvo Atlantic Council - Yakabhadharwa naLockheed-Martin, Raytheon, US Navy, Mauto, Air Force, Marines, uye kunyange Ukrainian World Congress - inokurudzira. nyaya se "Nei Rugare Rusingabviri naPutin" uye anodaro kuti NATO inofanirwa "kuzvipira kushandisa mari yakawanda muchiuto" kubata ne "Russian revanchist."

Mavambo ekuwedzera kweNATO

Mushandirapamwe wekuratidza Russia senjodzi, uchitungamirwa nevanopihwa mari nekondirakiti vanoongorora uye vanoongorora, wakatanga nguva pfupi Hondo Yemashoko yapera. Muna 1996, Lockheed mukuru Bruce Jackson yakatangwa Dare reUS reNATO, rine motto yaive "Simbisa America, Chengetedza Europe. Chengetedza Zvinokosha. Wedzera NATO. "

Basa rayo raipikisana zvakananga anovimbisa naGeorge HW Bush manejimendi kuti asawedzere mubatanidzwa wemauto ekuMadokero kumabvazuva mushure mekudonha kweSoviet Union.

Kubatana naJackson vaive neo-conservative hawks saPaul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle naRobert Kagan. Mumwe neocon insider anonzi Jackson - uyo akaenderera mberi nekuwana Komiti yeRusununguko yeIraq - "hukama pakati peindasitiri yekudzivirira uye neoconservatives. Anotishandura kwavari, uye naivo kwatiri.”

Kukurudzira kwesangano kwakakura uye kwakabudirira zvikuru hakuna kucherechedzwa. Muna 1998, the New York Times Zvinonzi kuti "Vagadziri vezvombo vekuAmerica, vanomira kuti vawane mabhiriyoni emadhora mukutengesa zvombo, masisitimu ekutaurirana uye zvimwe midziyo yemauto kana Seneti ikabvumidza kuwedzera kweNATO, vakaita mari yakawanda muvamiriri uye mipiro yemushandirapamwe kusimudzira chikonzero chavo muWashington. . . .

“Makambani gumi nemaviri ane bhizimisi guru rezvombo akadonhedza vakwikwidzi mari inosvika madhora 32.3 miriyoni kubvira pakaparara chiKomonisiti muEastern Europe pakutanga kwemakore gumi. Kana tichienzanisa, nzvimbo inosvikira fodya yakashandisa mamiriyoni 26.9 emadhora munguva iyoyo, 1991 kusvika 1997.”

Mutauriri weLockheed akati, "Takatora nzira yakareba yekuwedzera kweNATO, kutanga mibatanidzwa. Kana zuva rasvika uye nyika idzodzo dzave pachinzvimbo chekutenga ndege dzehondo, isu tinoshuvira kuve mukwikwidzi. "

Kukurudzira kwacho kwakashanda. Muna 1999, pamusoro pekupikisa kweRussia, NATO yakabata Czech Republic, Hungary nePoland. Muna 2004, yakawedzera Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia neSlovenia. Albania neCroatia dzakazobatana muna 2009. Zvakanyanya kutsamwisa, muna 2008 NATO yakakoka Ukraine kuti ipinde mumubatanidzwa wekuMadokero, zvichigadzira danho rekurwisana kune ngozi pakati peNATO neRussia pamusoro penyika iyoyo nhasi.

Hupfumi hwevagadziri vezvombo vekuAmerica hwakakwira. "Pakazosvika 2014, nhengo gumi nembiri itsva dze[NATO] dzakanga dzatenga zvombo zveAmerica zvinosvika mabhiriyoni gumi nenomwe," according kuna Andrew Cockburn, “apo . . . Romania yakapemberera kusvika kweyokutanga madhora zana nemakumi matatu ane mana emamiriyoni emadhora ekuEastern Europe Lockheed Martin Aegis Ashore inodzivirira zvombo zvekudzivirira.

Kuwa kwekupedzisira, Washington Business Journal Zvinonzi kuti “kana paine munhu ari kubatsirwa nekusagadzikana kuri pakati peRussia nenyika dzese, zvinofanirwa kunge zviri Bethesda-based Lockheed Martin Corp. (NYSE: LMT). Kambani iyi ine mukana wekuita purofiti yakakura kubva kune ingangove iri kushandiswa kwemari yemauto pasi rose nevavakidzani veRussia. "

Ichitaura nezvechibvumirano chikuru chekutengesa zvombo zvinokandwa kuPoland, bepanhau rakawedzera kuti, "Vakuru veLockheed havasi kutaura pachena kuti kushanya kweMutungamiriri weRussia Vladimir Putin muUkraine kwakanakira bhizinesi, asi havasi kunzvenga kuziva mukana uyo Poland iri. vachivaratidza sezvo Warsaw iri kuramba ichitanga chirongwa chikuru chekuvandudza mauto - icho chakawedzera sezvo kusawirirana kuripo kuEastern Europe. "

Lockheed's Lobby Machine

Lockheed anoenderera mberi nekupomba mari muhurongwa hwezvematongerwo enyika hweAmerica kuona kuti inoramba iri mukontrakta mukuru wemauto munyika. Kubva 2008 kusvika 2015, its kutsvaga mari yakapfuura mamiriyoni gumi nematatu emadhora kunze kwegore rimwe chete. The company bhizinesi rakasaswa kubva pachirongwa cheF-35 kupinda matunhu makumi mana nematanhatu uye inoti inoburitsa makumi ezviuru emabasa.

Pakati pematunhu gumi nemasere ari kufarira hupfumi hunodarika madhora zana kubva kundege yekurwira iVermont - ndosaka F-18 ichiwana rutsigiro. kunyangwe Sen. Bernie Sanders.

Sezvaakaudza mumwe musangano wehoro yetaundi, “Inopinza basa mazana avanhu. Inopa dzidzo yekoreji kumazana evanhu. Saka kwandiri mubvunzo hausi wekuti tine F-35 here kana kuti kwete. Zviri pano. Mubvunzo kwandiri ndewekuti iri muBurlington, Vermont here kana kuti iri muFlorida.

Muna 1961, Purezidhendi Eisenhower akaona kuti “kubatana kwesangano guru remauto neindasitiri huru yezvombo” kwakanga kwatanga kupesvedzera “guta riri rose, imba yose yeHurumende, hofisi imwe neimwe yeHurumende yeHurumende.”

Mukutaura kwake kwakakurumbira kurudzi, Eisenhower akayambira kuti “tinofanira kungwarira kutorwa kwesimba risingakodzeri, kungave kuri kutsvakwa kana kusatsvakwa, nemauto-maindasitiri. Mukana wokumuka kune ngozi kwesimba rakarasika uripo uye ucharamba uripo.”

Akanga akarurama sei. Asi kunyangwe Ike angadai asina kufungidzira mari yakawandisa kurudzi yekutadza kubata izvo zvakaomarara - kubva patrillion-dollar ndege yekurwira chirongwa kusvika kune kusingakoshe uye kune njodzi kumuka kweCold War kwechina muzana mushure mekunge West vawana. kukunda.