Last week, we watched a U.S.-made Tomahawk missile murder more than 160+ Iranian school children. We watched in horror, helpless to stop the incoming massacres as the U.S. and Israel carpet-bombed Iran, then Lebanon, displacing millions of people from their homes. The pure, unrelenting terror continues to unfold. We are shocked and devastated, but we are also enraged because for every bomb the U.S. and Israel drop, a bunch of men in cushy offices profit off all the death.There is an urgent need to identify and address the burgeoning war profiteers that are leading the world headfirst into planetary destruction. War does not end in Venezuela or Iran. It will continue until all avenues are exhausted, until there are no resources left to plunder because they have destroyed everything.I call your attention to Peter Thiel, founder of military tech company Palantir, who just last week visited with Japans prime minister last week and was dubbed Americas shadow president across Japanese media. I call your attention to Ethan Thornton, founder of Mach Industries, who is attempting to create dangerous hydrogen-powered weapons (and almost killed a coworker in the process). I call your attention to Rob Slaughter, cofounder of Defense Unicorns, whose company has built the software backbone of the War Department (and whose surname is rather apt). And I call your attention to Palmer Luckey, self-proclaimed radical Zionist and founder of Anduril, a military tech company that supplies the U.S. military with AI and autonomous weapons.There are many more corporate executives selling weapons and making a killing off of killing. But today we are going to talk about Anduril founder Palmer Luckey, the Tony Stark wannabe who so very badly wants to believe hes the good guy. Recently, after CODEPINK launched a petition calling him out for his crimes, he claimed that hes actually saving lives.This is how war profiteers have always tried to sell war to people. Its for the greater good! If we dont kill them, they will probably try to kill us at some much later date! As much as they want us to believe that their pre-emptive wars of aggression are necessary, the truth is we dont need to security dilemma ourselves into functioning like soulless robots; were actually evolved humans who can participate in dialogue, the great human superpower. Its not a hard conclusion to draw: murder is not the solution to a disagreement with your neighbor, just as systematic murder is not the solution to a disagreement with another nation.Besides, we all know war isnt about saving American lives. Instead, American lives are spent carelessly to accomplish elite agendas, and then veterans are discarded like broken utensils. Tell us, Luckey, whose lives were saved by slaughtering civilians in My Lai in 1968 or in Haditha in 2005? Whose lives were saved by taking out every hospital in Gaza? Whose lives were saved by bombing 160+ school children in Iran?No, murder is not about saving lives, just as war is not about accomplishing everlasting peace. Its about men in safe, cushy offices far away from the battlefield amassing as much wealth as possible before they have to join the rest of us as dirt in the ground.You can tell our petition bothered Luckey, because a few minutes later, he tweeted this:Its certainly an odd argument to make that Anduril should never have had the opportunity to exist. Its almost a direct admission of guilt, if you think about it. A shrugging of responsibility for Andurils existence, as if Luckey didnt build the company himself from the ground up. Its the worlds fault for needing Anduril, right? Hes just another cog in the machinery of fate. Helpless, unable to withstand his destiny of building murder machines. Its funny how these war profiteers want all the recognition for what they make until they start getting recognition for the consequences of what they make. Well, we should never have existed anyway!Luckey also wonders why the media thinks he wants tech to be more involved in the military, as if those words havent repeatedly come from his own mouth. Hes been rather urgent about advocating for advanced military tech to counter Russia, China, and Iran, even going so far as to actively prepare for a simultaneous conflict by developing advanced, rapid-production military systems. Hes an especially big fan of war on China, and instated a China 27 strategy, which states that Anduril wont design and produce any new weapons that wont be ready by 2027 the date the War Department set on war with China.Last year, Anduril secured a $99 million U.S. Air Force contract for autonomous software and a ten-year, $642 million Marine Corps contract for counter-drone systems. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth visited Andurils headquarters, where he proclaimed: We are rebuilding the Arsenal of Freedom.Anduril, now valued at nearly $31 billion, was named after the Lord of the Rings sword, Flame of the West, a fitting title for a tool of the imperial Wests perpetual exploitation and murder of innocents abroad. The company is also responsible for the border protection system of lasers and identification software, inspired by Trumps dream for a border wall, and has released new wearable headsets that Luckey claims turn soldiers into superheroes.Fact of the matter is, Luckey likes to think of himself as a type of superhero or Lord of the Rings character, bumbling through an adventure, taking down bad guys, and stacking up points. But in doing so, hes treating reality as a sort of faraway game, entirely detached from human suffering. Its not all that different from what the White House is doing just check out this recent White House tweet, which compared the bombing of Iran to a Wii sports game.War profiteers like Luckey are all the same. They exist in some fantastical bubble, getting high on the idea that theyre helping save-the-world, while the government takes their fresh-baked drones and missiles and sends them to schools, hospitals, and residential buildings to take out unsuspecting families, destroy infrastructure, and wreak widespread destruction. But the truth is even if its deep-deep-down in the dark voids of their souls Luckey and friends know exactly which part theyre playing and choose not to care.What does Luckey do with his blood money other than enthusiastically participate in a B-boys club group chat (B as in billionaire)… Well, he has amassed quite the collection of vehicles, including a 1969 Ford Mustang, a Tesla Model S, a 2001 Honda Insight, a 1967 Disneyland Autopia car, a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter, a 1985 ex-Marine Corps Humvee, a Mark V Special Operations Craft, two submarines, and multiple motorcycles, among many others. I wonder if we converted USD to human lives, how many people had to die for Luckey to afford each vehicle?Its a simple equation: more war means more money for war profiteers. So its really no surprise Luckey is hellbent on war with China, which would make him billions and could afford him another few submarines for his imaginary underwater adventures. The U.S. has invested trillions of dollars into preparing for war on China ($3.4 trillion to be exact, a number larger than the total amount spent on 20 years of war in Afghanistan). Every incremental increase to the War Department budget is justified with the same reason: we need to counter China, we need to counter China, we need to counter China. China has become the ultimate war budget enhancer, and all the slippery politicians and war profiteers have taken advantage of it.Unfortunately, war is the main driver of U.S. technological advancement. So instead of developing advanced technology to improve infrastructure, build high-speed railways, and raise the standard of living, the tech industry is creating headsets for soldiers to optimize killing during battle. They are making autonomous robot drones that pick their next targets according to data sets, rather than valuing human life. They are using AI to draft battle strategies and risking escalation to unforeseen, unredeemable heights.Iran, Venezuela, Cuba, China These nations are not the enemies of ordinary people in the U.S. Our enemies are internal: the war profiteers, the ruling class, the B-boys club members, and the military tech founders. It is the ruling elites who drive war, all for profit. And it is always the people who suffer. Even now, we suffer as all our taxpayer money is funneled into new contracts with companies like Anduril instead of supporting the health and well-being of the American people. And so overseas, children are murdered, so guys like Palmer Luckey can add to their rare car collections.The post The U.S. Bombs Kids So Palmer Luckey Can Have Nice Things appeared first on Dissident Voice.