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Tuesday, January 6, 2026
Zelensky says Russia lost more than 90,000 troops over 3 months -- Russian drone strikes hospital in Kyiv, kills 1, injures 4. -- Russian drones attack Dnipro, damage US-owned sunflower oil plant -- Kyiv police detain woman suspected of planting explosive under National Guard soldier's car ... and morehttps://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/01/tuesday-january-6-2026/
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Quoting an unnamed, long‑time contractor who is familiar with the Gaza‑reconstruction process:
“Everybody and their brother is trying to get a piece of this… People are treating it like another Iraq or Afghanistan, and they’re trying to get rich off of it.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/14/gaza-rebuild-us-contractors
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Post-war reconstruction capitalism isn’t a single, codified business plan but a recurring institutional pattern: a war generates an urgent, large‑scale need for rebuilding; the occupying or intervening government then fashions a procurement market, and a handful of politically connected firms secure the contracts and capture sizable fees. In #Iraq and #Afghanistan this dynamic funneled billions of dollars to a few contractors, often under lax oversight and with mixed results for the local populations. The current #Gaza logistics scheme mirrors that template—setting ambitious daily truck targets, imposing high per‑load charges, and proposing a “master‑contractor” that could earn roughly $1.7 billion a year—indicating that profit motives are poised to drive the next post‑war reconstruction economy.