Many people will go to their graves not knowing wars are created by the wealthy & giant corps to make themselves richer. The poor will send their kids to die because it's "patriotic and honorable" while the wealthy send their kids to ivy league schools. Makes me so mad I could spit nails.
Only when the sons and daughters of the rich, powerful and politicians, lie slaughtered in ragged heaps on the bloody battlefields of the wars their fathers start, will all wars end.
During war, the rich get richer, the poor get poorer. Regading WW1, FDR said "We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace -- business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering. ...
... They had begun to consider the Government of the United States as a mere appendage to their own affairs. We know now that Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob."
--- President Franklin D. Roosevelt, October 31, 1936
One of the reasons wars happen: disaster capitalism - the practice of profiting from wars, natural disasters, or economic collapses - by privatising public resources, securing lucrative contracts & exploiting vulnerable populations. Disaster capitalism turns suffering into profitability for the few
Here’s a crazy idea: any American President who commits his military to a war in which US personnel die must by law be executed on the cessation of hostilities.
If you ask people to die for their country, you should be prepared to make that sacrifice, as well.
"In 2022, the DOD purchased $44.5 billion from Lockheed Martin, $25.4 billion from Raytheon, and $21.5 billion from General Dynamics Corporation, according to the DOD website."
Instead, President Musk is focused on DEI-related contracts.
Btw which newspapers is this? is this lately? Seems like a non propaganda article which we haven't seen in years. I'll try to read from the print screen.
Sigh #GeraldNye #DorothyDetzer #ThomasOMalley if we had followed them verbatim and mad e the new the leaders with the #Progressives and never wavered from that bandwagon even with the #DeepState assassination of #JFK but we let them stun us and let shock stop us from continuing forward
At the time, the most decorated Marine in history.
Anti-FDR forces tried to recruit him in “the business plot,” but he remained a patriot and blew the whistle on the traitors.
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Could you imagine what President Bonespurs would do in this situation?....
$10k sign on bonus &
$1100/day to “secure Gaza” for dick-tators
--- President Franklin D. Roosevelt, October 31, 1936
But that's an Act of Integrity.
Unfortunately, no one in that tax bracket has that.
All Oligarchs.
If you ask people to die for their country, you should be prepared to make that sacrifice, as well.
"In 2022, the DOD purchased $44.5 billion from Lockheed Martin, $25.4 billion from Raytheon, and $21.5 billion from General Dynamics Corporation, according to the DOD website."
Instead, President Musk is focused on DEI-related contracts.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgPRpYTr7_E&ab_channel=ClassicTVChannel
Anti-FDR forces tried to recruit him in “the business plot,” but he remained a patriot and blew the whistle on the traitors.