NightOwl@lemm.ee to World News@lemmy.ml • 1 year agoBiden asks Congress for $40 billion to support Ukraine, replenish US disaster aid and bolster borderexternal-linkmessage-square164 fedilinkarrow-up1280
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minus-squareAssian_Candor [comrade/them]hexbear58·edit-21 year 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-21 year agoSadly yes, the US benefits WE don’t link
minus-squareHexadecimalkink@lemmy.mlhexbear1·1 year agoBuy stocks and join the cynic train. linkfedilink
minus-squareAssian_Candor [comrade/them]hexbear2·1 year 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