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A Lockheed Martin F-35 on display in 2020. The company booked more than $950 million of its own missile defense orders from the Pentagon, in part to refill stockpiles for key missile systems now being used in Ukraine.Credit...Jakub Porzycki/Anadolu Agency, via Getty Images

War is a Racket, Smedley Butler's masterpiece, details how the very few make big bucks making products designed to kill people, never ceases to amaze.

WASHINGTON — The prospect of growing military threats from both China and Russia is driving bipartisan support for a surge in Pentagon spending, setting up another potential boom for weapons makers that is likely to extend beyond the war in Ukraine.

Congress is on track in the coming week to give final approval to a national military budget for the current fiscal year that is expected to reach approximately $858 billion — or $45 billion above what President Biden had requested.

“…the object of waging a war is always to be in a better position in which to wage another war.” - George Orwell/1984