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War Is A Racket, as Smedley Butler accurately wrote.
by nyc_data_geek1 3y ago
War Is A Racket, as Smedley Butler accurately wrote.
- AndrewKemendo 3y agoPrecisely this Link here too for everyone: https://archive.org/details/WarIsARacket https://archive.org/details/WarIsARacket
- astrange 3y agoNo, this is wrong. Saying war is for money gives war too much credit - it's not good for anything and it doesn't make anyone any money. The opportunity cost is too great. The US does not care about "the petrodollar". Nor do we care about foreign oil. Nor do we have remotely the same economy we did in 1935. In fact, war is not even profitable for our military industrial complex. They profit from the threat of war because that funds development of untested superweapons. Actual wars mean all that stuff actually has to work though, and there's a chance you'll get nationalized. But if it was good for some MIC rich people, it still wouldn't matter, because they're outnumbered by all the other rich people it's bad for.
- nyc_data_geek1 3y agoIt's not true, though. War is an effective wealth transfer mechanism - from the lower/working classes to the rich war parasite class. Halliburton absolutely profited from the Iraq invasion, though in aggregate you're absolutely right that prosperity is reduced by wars.