System Update with Glenn Greenwald cover image

How Endless War Bankrupted the US While Inflicting Mass Suffering at Home. Plus: Macron Threatens Internet Shutdown & Update on US Govt's Private Data Purchases | SYSTEM UPDATE #111

System Update with Glenn Greenwald

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The Cost of a Proxies War in Ukraine

The New Republican people like them is a false one. It's an illusory one. Apparently we can spend hundreds of billions of dollars on the war in Ukraine and it's supposed to have no effect on the lives of American citizens, even while the New York Times tells you to get ready for your parents' Social Security Medicare or for years when you get there to be eliminated. The article says quote, while a graph at the bottom mentions that the US has sent 46.6 billion dollars in military aid to Ukraine. This is supposed to be an example of the kind of thing that you're supposed to hate and think is a Kremlin-ish Kremlin propaganda. Something has gone clearly wrong with

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