Jack Daniel (often offline)Mar 8
I keep seeing hot takes about war, as if "winning" is defined by achieving the *stated* goals. Major General Smedley D Butler, USMC explained it best almost a century ago.
(1/2) "War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives."
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(2/2) "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."
Mar 8 at 2:34pmWeb
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@jack_daniel ukraine doesn't have the choice or liberty to worry about rackets, it is less about the money that other issues, like survival