The Vice Guide to Everything Ep. 4: The Business Of War
“We all know that the international arms trade exists. We know that people manufacture, buy, and sell military-grade weapons with the blessing of our respective governments. But until you’ve seen the eerily cordial nature of an arms fair up close, you’ll never understand just how far removed from the reality of war the industry is. In this segment Vice magazine’s founder Shane Smith heads to SOFEX (Special Operations Forces Expo) in Jordan, where you could mistake the mustachioed men nibbling on teacakes for a group of anesthesiologists at a medical conference… if their chests weren’t covered in medals and they weren’t debating which weapons system to spend their “foreign aid” checks on.”
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