Wise words from Chris Hedges, in only 1 minute and 43 seconds:

Related Chris Hedges quote from an article he wrote a few weeks ago:

“The expansion of NATO swiftly became a multi-billion-dollar bonanza for the corporations that had profited from the Cold War. (Poland, for example, just agreed to spend $6 billion on M1 Abrams tanks and other U.S. military equipment.) If Russia would not acquiesce to again being the enemy, then Russia would be pressured into becoming the enemy. And here we are: On the brink of another Cold War, one from which only the war industry will profit while, as W.H. Auden wrote, the little children die in the streets.”

From “The Ukraine catastrophe and how we got here: Chronicle of a war foretold“