@NightOwl@lemm.ee to worldnews@lemmy.ml • 11 months agoBiden asks Congress for $40 billion to support Ukraine, replenish US disaster aid and bolster borderexternal-linkmessage-square166 fedilinkarrow-up1280
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minus-squareAssian_Candor [comrade/them]hexbear58•edit-211 months ago How is the US benefitting from this? Draining the resources of geopolitical rival without dead troops, weapons exports and lucrative contracts for reconstruction. You should read war is a racket https://ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html The guy who wrote it, smedley butler, was a highly decorated major general Capital loves war which is why the US has been at war for something like 92% of its miserable existence. Of course the average person gets fucked link
minus-squareAssian_Candor [comrade/them]hexbear26•edit-211 months agoSadly yes, the US benefits WE don’t link
minus-square@Hexadecimalkink@lemmy.mlhexbear1•11 months agoBuy stocks and join the cynic train. linkfedilink
minus-squareAssian_Candor [comrade/them]hexbear1•11 months agoBeing a communist and a war profiteer are incompatible link
Draining the resources of geopolitical rival without dead troops, weapons exports and lucrative contracts for reconstruction.
You should read war is a racket https://ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html
The guy who wrote it, smedley butler, was a highly decorated major general
Capital loves war which is why the US has been at war for something like 92% of its miserable existence. Of course the average person gets fucked
Geesh. Ain’t that the truth?
Sadly yes, the US benefits WE don’t
Buy stocks and join the cynic train.
Being a communist and a war profiteer are incompatible
But what if I want dead US troops?
Be the change you want to see in the world
We all do