The military industrial complexes of Russia and the United States (and increasingly so European nations) are business partners. They scare each other's populases enough to make their governments fund ...
The Russian military-industrial complex is fully state-controlled (e.g., via Rostec)—in stark contrast to the privately owned and publicly traded companies in the US/EU. Hardly business partners; more like geopolitical rivals. Assange was right about endless wars, but the structures differ fundamentally.