Cohen expressed frustration with NATO expansionism and the “military-industrial-congressional complex” as aggravating factors in the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
and the “military-industrial-congressional complex” as aggravating factors in the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
“In the end, money won,” Cohen told Politico. “And today, not only are they providing weapons to all the new NATO countries, but they’re providing weapons to Ukraine.” “I’m not supporting Russia, I’m not supporting Ukraine,” he added. “I’m supporting negotiations to end the war instead of providing more weapons to continue the war.”
Cohen, who grew up amid Cold War tensions and ill-fated US involvement in Vietnam, attributes listening to the 1963 song “Masters of War” by “That was kind of a revelation to me,” Cohen said. “I hadn’t understood that, you know, there were these masters of war – essentially I guess what we would now call the military-industrial-congressional complex – that profit from war.”
“In the end, money won,” Cohen told Politico. “And today, not only are they providing weapons to all the new NATO countries, but they’re providing weapons to Ukraine.”
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