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Weapons are humanitarian aid — A perfect example of neo-doublespeak in the tradition of “fake news”, “perfect phone call”, “alternative facts”, and “peaceful tourist rioting with Confederate Flags”. A most dystopian 21st century reality perhaps illustrating the idea that we really are living in the Kālī Yuga — The Dark Age. When compared with statements like: Rice is humanitarian aid Wheat is humanitarian aid Digging fresh water wells is humanitarian aid Offering safe effective and free vaccines is humanitarian aid Safe and affordable housing is humanitarian aid. it is easy to see the dark irony of the Orwellian neo-doublespeak statement: weapons are humanitarian aid. How does this measure up to offering people: food, water, shelter, political asylum, or potential citizenship. Is it surprising that in an era where gun violence is the number one cause of death among young people in America today; that, we want to export this “largess” all over the world — perhaps as a Swift-ian “modest proposal” to solving the worldwide refugee crisis. If weapons are humanitarian aid; then WE ARE ACTUALLY AT WAR. Which would actually be a much more honest and straightforward statement.
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