UKRAINE WAR: NATO AND RUSSIA AS EXPRESSION OF THE INDUSTRIAL-MILITARY COMPLEX

Abstract

The present text intends to point out how the military-industrial complex desperately seeks to play an essential role in the perspective of blocking the downward movement of the North American economy in the context of financial capital hypertrophy. The recurrence of the military-industrial complex in the crisis established in Ukraine reveals that the annexation of the former USSR to the capitalist world has not mitigated the contradictions of the capital system. In this process, Ukraine is a mere pawn in the balance of forces established between the two greatest military powers in the word. In order to understand the ascending movement of NATO in modern times and the growth of the industrial-military complex in Russia, we will resort to the contributions of authors such as Luiz Alberto Bandeira, Telma Luzzani, Ronald Steel, among others who deal with the theme from a critical perspective.