"Which US & Israeli military companies are profiting from the Iran war?"
"Defence stocks reach all-time highs, driven by need to produce billions of dollars of weapons systems."
"The biggest defence companies in the US have agreed to “quadruple production” in a meeting attended by "RTX (fmr Raytheon), Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Northrop Grumman, BAE Systems, L3Harris Missile Solutions & Honeywell Aerospace."
"Which US & Israeli military companies are profiting from the Iran war?"
"Defence stocks reach all-time highs, driven by need to produce billions of dollars of weapons systems."
"The biggest defence companies in the US have agreed to “quadruple production” in a meeting attended by "RTX (fmr Raytheon), Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Northrop Grumman, BAE Systems, L3Harris Missile Solutions & Honeywell Aerospace."
"Which US & Israeli military companies are profiting from the Iran war?"
"Defence stocks reach all-time highs, driven by need to produce billions of dollars of weapons systems."
"The biggest defence companies in the US have agreed to “quadruple production” in a meeting attended by "RTX (fmr Raytheon), Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Northrop Grumman, BAE Systems, L3Harris Missile Solutions & Honeywell Aerospace."
"Which US & Israeli military companies are profiting from the Iran war?"
"Defence stocks reach all-time highs, driven by need to produce billions of dollars of weapons systems."
"The biggest defence companies in the US have agreed to “quadruple production” in a meeting attended by "RTX (fmr Raytheon), Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Northrop Grumman, BAE Systems, L3Harris Missile Solutions & Honeywell Aerospace."
And no, I am not interested in responses about #geopolitics and the tortured, fraught history of the #MiddleEast. This makes #USA worse short- and long- term, this makes #Iran worse in the short term and probably in the long term as well. The only people who come out ahead are the #warprofiteers.
If it can't be solved with #violence then apparently it's not worth solving.
#israel #palestine : #war / #gaza / #genocide / #collaboration / #oil / #fuel / #warprofiteers / #report
„Today, at COP30, Oil Change International released a new report, Behind the Barrel: An Update on the Origins of Israel’s Fuel Supply, detailing the global #fuelshipments that fuel Israel’s genocide in Gaza.“
https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/new-data-exposes-countries-fueling-genocide-in-gaza
See also:
„25 oil-supplying states accused of complicity in Gaza war“
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2025/11/13/25-oil-supplying-states-accused-of-complicity-in-gaza-war_6747434_4.html
Today, at COP30, Oil Change International released a new report, Behind the Barrel: An Update on the Origins of Israel’s Fuel Supply, detailing the global fuel shipments that fuel Israel’s genocide in Gaza.The report tracks over 21 million tonnes of crude oil and refined fuels delivered to Israel be...
Rheinmetall’s Rocket Ride: From €93 to €1,840 on Taxpayer-Fueled War Profits
Rheinmetall’s: €1,000 to €19,785 on Ukraine War – How Taxpayers Fund the Ultimate Laundromat
On 1 March 2022, as Russian columns rolled toward Kyiv, Rheinmetall AG shares closed at €93.44 on the Xetra exchange. Fast-forward to 5 November 2025: €1,840.00 – a blistering 1,952% gain that turned every €1,000 pocket change into €19,785. While families across Europe ration heating and governments slash pensions, one Düsseldorf postcode has never had it so good. The secret? A fearmongering perpetual-motion machine that transforms taxpayer euros into corporate super-profits, one artillery shell at a time.
This is not conspiracy. It is accounting.
Step 1: Scare the electorate
Politicians thunder about “Russian tanks 500km from Berlin”. NATO ups its target to 3.5% GDP. Germany alone unlocks €100bn Sondervermögen plus annual €80bn+ budgets. No public tender required – “emergency clauses” wave through framework deals worth tens of billions.
Step 2: Hand the cash to Rheinmetall
June 2024: largest contract in company history – €8.5bn for 155mm artillery rounds, paid upfront by Berlin, destined for Ukraine. Q1 2025 order backlog: €63bn. CEO Armin Papperger brags “customers buy whole factories”. Translation: governments pre-pay for plants that churn shells billed at €3,000–€6,000 apiece – margins north of 21%.
Step 3: Launder every penny
No suitcase cash, no Swiss accounts. The cleanest grift in history:
Past scandals prove the playbook works.
The human cost is measured in ledgers and lives.
Each €3,000 shell fired near Pokrovsk was pre-paid by a German nurse’s income tax or a French teacher’s pension contribution. Rheinmetall’s Unterlüß mega-factory – built on the same soil where Nazi forced labourers died making 88mm rounds – now runs three shifts, employing 3,000 at premium wages. Stock buybacks? €500m authorised. CEO bonus? Tied to “Nomination” – the €15bn pipeline of future call-offs.
Critics who cry “money laundering” are half-right. Classic laundering hides dirty money. This is reverse laundering: dirty geopolitics washed into pristine quarterly results. Brussels’ €1bn ammunition subsidy pool? Rheinmetall grabbed the lion’s share. EU “Ukraine Facility” loans? Collateralised by future shell profits.
Even the factories are taxpayer gifts.
Shareholders laugh all the way to Monaco. Institutional holders – BlackRock (7.2%), Vanguard, Norwegian Sovereign Wealth – pocket dividends funded by widows in Kherson. Retail bag-holders on X celebrate “5Y +2,152%” while their own sons dodge conscription.
Is it legal? Impeccably.
Framework agreements bypass competitive bids. “National security” clauses bury details. EU auditors wave through “military exemption”. Papperger himself boasts: “We deliver certainty – governments deliver cash.”
The fearmongering flywheel spins faster:
Yet cracks appear.
Still, the machine hums. Q3 2025 guidance: sales +28%, defence margin 15%. Translation: another €2bn+ from public coffers before Christmas.
What would stop it?
A single Bundestag vote to cap margins at 8%. A brave prosecutor to call framework deals “state aid in camouflage”. Or peace – the one scenario Papperger never models.
Until then, every European who pays tax is an involuntary Rheinmetall shareholder. Your €50 monthly solidarity surcharge? That’s 16 more shells. Your cancelled hospital wing? That’s one more Panther tank.
The chart on your screen – that glorious green candle from €93 to €1,840 – is not a success story. It is an invoice. And the bill is addressed to you.
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Rheinmetall’s Rocket Ride: From €93 to €1,840 on Taxpayer-Fueled War Profits
€1,000 in Rheinmetall in March 2022 = €19,785 today. Every 155mm shell fired in Ukraine is paid by YOUR taxes – then laundered into shareholder yachts. No corruption scandals? Just "framework agreements". Wake up. #WarProfiteers #Rheinmetall #TaxpayerLaundering
Rheinmetall's AG stock exploded 1,952% since Russia's 2022 invasion. Billions in EU/German taxpayer funds flow straight to Düsseldorf via "Ukraine aid" contracts. Past bribery fines, zero money-laundering convictions – yet every cent is scrubbed clean through defence budgets. Full exposé.
An investigation titled "Russian Secrets" by The Times, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) and 11 other media outlets has revealed that a network linked to Russian intelligence had involved British companies in unwittingly aiding the development of Russia's Arctic submarines for nearly a decade.
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