Seriously Neo.

Do you think that western arms manufacturers engage in Machiavellian bellicose lobbying to western governments to increase conflict and arms sales?

You are living in a movie-script fantasy world.

It does not happen.

I have been involved in the acquisition process on several projects.

When governments procure any materiel the acquisition process goes through very thorough vetting to make sure the tender is offered to all competing manufacturers on a level playing field. The evaluation and selection process is subject to stringent vetting to make sure that the purchase decision is based on value and all factors in the decision have to be accounted for and above board.

There is no way that arms manufacturers engage in the behaviour you are suggesting in the west.

They would be run out of the building and not allowed to return if they tried anything like this in a sales engagement with the department of defence.

In less developed countries and regions perhaps this goes on to some extent.