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There are three major profiteering industries in the world: drugs, cosmetics and arms.
Drugs are used to deceive oneself, and cosmetics are used to deceive others.
Only the munitions are the most honest, honest like the ballistics of the AK-47.
They are held in the hands of warlords, terrorists, monopolists, and even 14-year-old Boy Scouts, and then honestly shoot bullets, never too hot or stuck.
Behind this honesty, there have been countless cruelties and bloodsheds in the past and are still being staged.
We can't touch it, but we can't turn a blind eye to it, and we have to expose the truth of the war, as the following movie does—
King of War
The film tells the story of Yuri Orof's rise to fame as the world's leading private arms dealer.
Most of the world's warlords have done business with him, and the vast majority of war-torn parts of the world use the weapons he sells.
Even, without him, many countries could not afford to fight a decent war.
The film's director is Andrew Nicole, who is both the writer and producer of the film.
If you haven't heard of this name, you must have heard the works written by him: "Truman's World" and "Happiness Terminal".
Yuri is played by Nicholas Cage, in the film Cage acting skills are amazing, although later to the sea business failure and then crazy to take bad films, resulting in a decline in word of mouth, but this film alone is definitely enough for him to eat for a lifetime.
Also in the film are Jared Leto, ethan Hawke and Brigitte Muna.
At the end of the 1980s, New York, USA.
Yuri Orlov, an immigrant from Ukraine, runs a restaurant.
During a food delivery, Yuri witnessed the shooting for the first time.
From this moment on, he ended his previous chaotic and aimless life, realizing the meaning and purpose of his existence.
Be an arms dealer.
Then, Yuri had the experience of selling guns for the first time in his life, selling an Israeli-made Uzi submachine gun to the faithful in a small hotel as a Jew.
After the success, he said a sentence that is very interesting, of course, the lines of the whole movie are very interesting:
Selling a gun for the first time is like trying love for the first time, you have no idea what's going to happen, it's exciting, and it's over all at once.
From there, Yuri began his legendary career selling weapons, which he eventually became one of the nation's largest arms dealers.
First the U.S. military withdrew from Lebanon, leaving a large number of weapons in the local area, which were bought by Yuri and these arms dealers.
The second was the collapse of the Soviet Union, and the weapons stored in Ukraine in large quantities that could arm millions of Soviet Red Army suddenly lost their usefulness with the independence of Ukraine and the move closer to NATO.
Coupled with Ukraine's economic difficulties and political ambiguity, Yuri took advantage of the chaos and sold weapons through his uncle General Dimitri.
Finally, there was the African scuffle, where more than thirty countries bought arms from Yuri, and the international sanctions and embargo on Namibia allowed Yuri to make a windfall.
Throughout the process, we discover that Yuri is indeed a genius as an arms dealer.
Smart is needless to say.
Can speak five or six Chinese, has five or six identities, is familiar with various relevant laws and regulations, and can pull calves at the police without changing his face.
Besides, dealing with drug lords, warlords, and rulers all day long, if you are not smart, your life will be lost.
Another particularly important trait in Yuri is boldness.
Take a chestnut.
During a flight to Libya, Yuri, who was illegally transported, was targeted by international police. In a hurry, he asked the driver to land directly on the highway below.
That's right, the plane, landing on an African highway.
Plus this driver is not the average driver —
He was much worse than the average pilot, who had graduated from the Moscow Flight School with the penultimate grades.
Yuri had no choice, he could only yell at the poisonous chicken soup with his throat in his conscience:
You are the best! I believe you!
Well, this driver was really cheeky, actually believed Yuri's words, and began to land.
In the end, they really succeeded.
It can only be said that this highway in Africa is likely to be built by our country, and the quality is leveraged.
Yuri's next operation is even more brilliant -
He gave the full warehouse "free" to the local residents, and as a result, the crew had to spend 2 hours to carry the goods, and the Sierra Leonean starvation was completed within 10 minutes.
By the time the agent's car arrived, the African savannah was already full of guns, and everyone was dancing.
During the 24 hours that followed, Yuri watched the African people dismantle and remove all the parts of the plane, like ants carrying food, leaving only the wreckage of the plane like an animal skeleton.
It is not difficult to imagine what African people will do with their guns, which is the so-called "gift" of Western civilization.
And their rapid and efficient dismemberment of the aircraft, which symbolizes high technology, also symbolizes the powerful primitive power.
This absurdity and perverse mistake once again shows the director's philosophical thinking.
Witnessing Yuri's entire operation, we could only applaud while sending 666.
Smart, bold, relying on these two points alone can not be an arms dealer. The most critical point is that you have to have no moral bottom line.
Selling arms is equivalent to pinning your head to the waistband of your pants, either watching others die or you die yourself.
African rulers carry a golden ak-47 "sweep the street", which is not what we usually understand, but drives through a street and then shoots wildly.
The terrorists had several underage boys stand against the wall and shoot them one by one.
Inside the tent lived a group of refugees, many of them children who had just learned to walk, and the warlords would indiscriminately massacre them as soon as they got their weapons.
In the face of these scenarios, how can a normal person, a person with a moral bottom line, still allow himself to provide them with weapons?
But Yuri was very calm —
People needed ammunition, so he provided it, and he wasn't the one who shot and killed.
He sold weapons to any army except the Salvation Army.
Israeli-made Uzi submachine guns were sold to Muslims and arms were transported to Afghanistan, even though they were fighting the Soviet Union.
He never sold it to bin Laden because his checks always skipped tickets.
This was a naked businessman, and he knew very well that today he had washed his hands and was gone, and tomorrow another man would take his place.
A person who runs around all day and deals with various warlords and rulers can be shrewd and slippery, or cruel and inhuman. But Cage's melancholy eyes and temperament make Yuri have a feeling of "taking it for granted, having to do it, he is born for selling arms", which makes people hate it.
It was as if under his calm exterior, there were countless struggles and pains hidden, but he never revealed.
King of War is based on true events, and Yuri is the embodiment of five arms dealers. Most of this experience comes from Russia's number one arms dealer, Victor Bout.
Unlike the murderous cruelty we might think, Boot never touched his weapons, or even met them.
In addition to business, he enjoys traveling, watching movies, taking pictures, and becoming a vegetarian.
He is also passionate about protecting the rainforest and donating to UNICEF.
Boot himself provided a lot of help to The King of War, including some top-secret material.
In addition to him, other arms smugglers also provided considerable help to the film, such as the 3,000 ak-47s in the film, and the entire row of tanks sold on behalf of the film.
Why not prepare a prop gun?
Because arms dealers are much more efficient than production companies.
After the shooting, the tank was sold to Libya by a Czech arms dealer, which was used until the Time of Gaddafi.
At the same time, this film exposing the US government does not have any funds from the United States or behind-the-scenes operations.
As I said in the news network a few days ago: Since the founding of the United States in 1776, more than 90% of the time has been at war.
The arms deal behind this is unimaginable.
At the end of the film, Yuri also confesses: The president of the United States sells what I sell in a day.
King of War has a god opening: a bullet is crafted in a minute, then transported to Africa, loaded with an ak-47, and finally shot into the Scout's brain.
Yuri is a bullet in the state apparatus, and the hand that pulls the trigger is the government.
They wage war and take the lives of large numbers of innocent people.
In "A Brief History today", the author Yuval said: War is cruel, human beings are stupid, we must beware of human stupidity, war is such a thing has no bottom line.
What "The King of War" does is to expose the cruelty of war and tell the world the truth about war.
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