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“War is a racket, wrote US Maj. General Smedley Butler in 1935. He explained: “A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people. Only a small ‘inside’ group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many. Out of war a few people make huge fortunes.”

Gen. Butler’s observation describes the US/NATO response to the Ukraine war perfectly.

Walker wrote: ↑Wed Apr 27, 2022 2:20 pm If it's a racket, what's the angle?

RCSaunders wrote: ↑Wed Apr 27, 2022 2:11 pm The Ukraine War is a Racket

“War is a racket, wrote US Maj. General Smedley Butler in 1935. He explained: “A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people. Only a small ‘inside’ group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many. Out of war a few people make huge fortunes.”

Gen. Butler’s observation describes the US/NATO response to the Ukraine war perfectly.

War is the favorite racket of good patriotic Christian Americans.

RCSaunders wrote: ↑Wed Apr 27, 2022 2:11 pm The Ukraine War is a Racket

“War is a racket, wrote US Maj. General Smedley Butler in 1935. He explained: “A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people. Only a small ‘inside’ group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many. Out of war a few people make huge fortunes.”

Gen. Butler’s observation describes the US/NATO response to the Ukraine war perfectly.

War is the favorite racket of good patriotic Christian Americans.

RCSaunders wrote: ↑Wed Apr 27, 2022 9:22 pm

1. Nothing is more profitable to politicians and the military industry than war.

Gary Childress wrote: ↑Thu Apr 28, 2022 10:10 am

RCSaunders wrote: ↑Wed Apr 27, 2022 2:11 pm The Ukraine War is a Racket

“War is a racket, wrote US Maj. General Smedley Butler in 1935. He explained: “A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people. Only a small ‘inside’ group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many. Out of war a few people make huge fortunes.”

Gen. Butler’s observation describes the US/NATO response to the Ukraine war perfectly.

War is the favorite racket of good patriotic Christian Americans.

Yeah. It's a mess for sure. But I'm not so sure Putin getting his hands on Ukraine is a very good prospect either. I mean, what if N. Korea invaded S. Korea? Should we allow S. Korea to fall as well? Putin and the Russian oligarchs are no saints either, I hear.

vegetariantaxidermy wrote: ↑Thu Apr 28, 2022 11:15 am

Gary Childress wrote: ↑Thu Apr 28, 2022 10:10 am

RCSaunders wrote: ↑Wed Apr 27, 2022 2:11 pm The Ukraine War is a Racket



War is the favorite racket of good patriotic Christian Americans.

Yeah. It's a mess for sure. But I'm not so sure Putin getting his hands on Ukraine is a very good prospect either. I mean, what if N. Korea invaded S. Korea? Should we allow S. Korea to fall as well? Putin and the Russian oligarchs are no saints either, I hear.

What if? What if? What if South Korea invaded North? What if Ukraine invaded Russia? One man's meat is blah blah...Humans love war so much then fuck them. You can't interfere. All interfering does is make everything a million times worse for the people of that country. All we can do is hope that countries play fair and behave themselves. When they don't then there's fuck all anyone can do about it.

popeye1945 wrote: ↑Thu Apr 28, 2022 8:29 am

RCSaunders wrote: ↑Wed Apr 27, 2022 2:11 pm The Ukraine War is a Racket

“War is a racket, wrote US Maj. General Smedley Butler in 1935. He explained: “A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people. Only a small ‘inside’ group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many. Out of war a few people make huge fortunes.”

Gen. Butler’s observation describes the US/NATO response to the Ukraine war perfectly.

War is the favorite racket of good patriotic Christian Americans.

RC,
I've got the book, excellent, if he could see America today he would not call himself an American.

Gary Childress wrote: ↑Thu Apr 28, 2022 10:10 am

RCSaunders wrote: ↑Wed Apr 27, 2022 2:11 pm The Ukraine War is a Racket

“War is a racket, wrote US Maj. General Smedley Butler in 1935. He explained: “A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people. Only a small ‘inside’ group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many. Out of war a few people make huge fortunes.”

Gen. Butler’s observation describes the US/NATO response to the Ukraine war perfectly.

War is the favorite racket of good patriotic Christian Americans.

Yeah. It's a mess for sure. But I'm not so sure Putin getting his hands on Ukraine is a very good prospect either. I mean, what if N. Korea invaded S. Korea? Should we allow S. Korea to fall as well? Putin and the Russian oligarchs are no saints either, I hear.

Gary Childress wrote: ↑Thu Apr 28, 2022 10:17 am I mean, it would be nice if, after Russia seizes Ukraine, we could all just sit down and get along after that. Let bygones be bygones. One could even make the argument that had Poland simply ceded the Danzig corridor to Hitler, then millions of lives may have been saved from WW2, hence making Britain and France culpable in creating the conditions for the war.

Dontaskme wrote: ↑Thu Apr 28, 2022 10:39 am

RCSaunders wrote: ↑Wed Apr 27, 2022 9:22 pm

1. Nothing is more profitable to politicians and the military industry than war.

What if..The lucrative business of manufacturing Nuclear Weapons, which is just one of many other weapons of mass destruction that can be used to destroy life...gives licence to bully other nations ..already knowing they will get away with their agenda's..whatever those agenda's may be...only the one's in power would have knowledge of.

We've all heard of the phrase TOP SECRET.

What if...there was a pact made to never use nuclear weapons, but use them as a weapon of deceit ONLY

I know America has already used NW's ..but that was before they had become available on a massive irreversible scale.

Now unless we figure out how to disarmament the world of it's destructive threats and intentions...then we are all doomed...ALL of us.

Dontaskme wrote: ↑Thu Apr 28, 2022 10:39 am Now unless we figure out how to disarmament the world of it's destructive threats and intentions...then we are all doomed...ALL of us.

RCSaunders wrote: ↑Thu Apr 28, 2022 1:14 pm There is only one condition for war. Government. So long a most people believe their life or fortunes depend on some agency of force and force is the right way to deal with other human beings there will be wars.

If you love government, you love war.

Gary Childress wrote: ↑Thu Apr 28, 2022 10:17 am I mean, it would be nice if, after Russia seizes Ukraine, we could all just sit down and get along after that. Let bygones be bygones. One could even make the argument that had Poland simply ceded the Danzig corridor to Hitler, then millions of lives may have been saved from WW2, hence making Britain and France culpable in creating the conditions for the war.