« Reply #12941 on: February 18, 2022, 01:05:08 PM »
Our merchants of war are opportunistic assholes but they're not the ones that chose to escalate and increase the levels of troops stationed along the border of the Ukraine. They didn't somehow force Putin to do this.
Unless you're suggesting that the American war hawks are working in conjunction with Putin? It's an interesting theory but not sure there's much chance of it being real.
In 2008 the ebola chimp Biden at a town hall meeting
(when running against Obama) literally got in a woman's face stating he would get the US out of the middle east but it would take like 7 months to extract all of our "equipment".There may be a video of it here that i left. He emphasized a complete evacuation,lest that "equipment" be used on our grand children.He's obviously forgot that but his handlers didn't - that simple oversite/omission with distractions made those
opportunistic assholes Billions. That simply isn't a coincidence - there's too many of them.Bush/Cheney profited in oil and government contracts during WARS in Iraq/Afgnanistan showing their true colors with spine's of a gummy bear when the fur flew in Nam
Here is an short excerpt of Eisenhower's Farewwell Address - He definately knew of the weasel in the wood pile
A vital element in keeping the peace is our military establishment. Our arms must be mighty, ready for instant action, so that no potential aggressor may be tempted to risk his own destruction.Our military organization today bears little relation to that known by any of my predecessors in peace time, or indeed by the fighting men of World War II or Korea.Until the latest of our world conflicts, the United States had no armaments industry. American makers of plowshares could, with time and as required, make swords as well. But now we can no longer risk emergency improvisation of national defense; we have been compelled to create a permanent armaments industry of vast proportions. Added to this, three and a half million men and women are directly engaged in the defense establishment. We annually spend on military security more than the net income of all United States corporations.This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. The total influence-economic, political, even spiritual-is felt in every city, every state house, every office of the Federal government. We recognize the imperative need for this development. Yet we must not fail to comprehend its grave implications. Our toil, resources and livelihood are all involved; so is the very structure of our society.In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.Akin to, and largely responsible for the sweeping changes in our industrial-military posture, has been the technological revolution during recent decades.In this revolution, research has become central; it also becomes more formalized, complex, and costly. A steadily increasing share is conducted for, by, or at the direction of, the Federal government.
Low hanging fruit and they've picked the tree dry. Remember the comic strip POGO satirized Oliver Hazard Perry's famous declaration " we have met the enemy and he is us"
How about Lincoln's prophesy
“From whence shall we expect the approach of danger? Shall some trans-Atlantic military giant step the earth and crush us at a blow? Never. All the armies of Europe and Asia...could not by force take a drink from the Ohio River or make a track on the Blue Ridge in the trial of a thousand years. No, if destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men we will live forever or die by suicide.”
I'm afraid one of the finest souls(IKE & ABE) that ever incarnated saw it coming
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