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posted ago by FearTheCucumber ago by FearTheCucumber +14 / -0

How can you be neutral and sell weapons at the same time?

If you are a weapons manufacturer, you learn to take every chance you can to enable the chance of conflict. If you are neutral, you are also immune to consequences. The white-collar responsibility is gone and it disappeared when ABBA made their debut. ABBA has strangely always been big in rainbow circles. They even sing about rainbows. So now that the rainbow movement is being exposed for what a Trojan horse it has always been, it's a little funny that ABBA has been the movement's soundtrack since the beginning. Height Ashbury in San Francisco has been the Mecca of the rainbow movement since its inception. A funny coincidence is that in 1929 San Francisco had the most telephone sets per capita in the world. Stockholm was in second place. ABBA's debut album was unsurprisingly about telephones. Good advertising for Ericsson, perhaps not exactly for the sake of phone sales but rather for the improved business morale.

If you as a weapons manufacturer want to create conflict, it is really good if you can intercept the entire population of a country, maybe the population of 184 countries is even better? If you do that, you are both invisible and publicly neutral. Can it get any better? You're a fool who doesn't do it if you don't have a business ethic that stands in the way.

But if a company were to do so, they could take the conflict-torn natural resources in one fell swoop. Maybe it will even be the cause of the conflict? Atlas carries the world on his shoulders. Atlas Copco carries the world in its containers. And if this were to happen, it would probably create flows of refugees. But you would probably have noticed that anyway! At least someone had said something! An expert who knows what is right and wrong and reminds me that the truth is always dry and boring. As dry and boring as a coffee break actually.

But now the rainbow movement loses its mask and ABBA, who sings about telephones, will be connected with both the deadly sin of pride and Ericsson, who is being charged with terrorist crimes in the USA at the same time as the American military is in Sweden right now.