NightOwl@lemm.ee to World News@lemmy.ml · 2 years agoBiden asks Congress for $40 billion to support Ukraine, replenish US disaster aid and bolster borderapnews.comexternal-linkmessage-square76fedilinkarrow-up14arrow-down12
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minus-squareAssian_Candor [comrade/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-22 years 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
minus-squareAssian_Candor [comrade/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-22 years agoSadly yes, the US benefits WE don’t
minus-squareHexadecimalkink@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up0arrow-down2·2 years agoBuy stocks and join the cynic train.
minus-squareAssian_Candor [comrade/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 years agoBeing a communist and a war profiteer are incompatible
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