,you learn why politico s interested because the story is quotee presented by lockheed martin. in other words, defense contractors think it is high time to spend much more on defense contracting in ukraine . politico is happy to make their case in exchange for money over the washington post. you may have seen this op ed with this headlineth. biden must show that the united states stands ready to support ukraine militarily if necessary. now that piece is written by aic man called michael vickers who s michael vickers will among other things, michaelon vickers sits on the board ofwe the weapons contractor bea systemsap. and that would seem relevant because war with russia would be potentially in any case highly profitable for va systems. butt somehow the washington post didn t bother to tell readersos about this . it remained undisclosed. so how does this look fromh across the world? well, the chinese must be watching this happen with