General Smedly D. Butler, who was the only Officer of the US to receive 2 medals of valor, an award given traditionally only to enlisted men for their performance in combat, is the author of War is a Racket. In his short book, he describes how the government, during a war economy, spends enormously more than what is required on simple materials, such as leather or steel, so that the soldiers are sufficiently equipped to win the war.
For example, if steel prewar was 1 dollar, its price would jump to 1000 dollars per unit because the demand was heightened and the need justified. Who made the money in that scenario? The steel manufactures. General Butler expressly goes on to itemize many such occurrences which happened during WWI.
The perpetual war economy serves to elevate prices of every day normal goods. Because citizens must compete with the governmental demands for goods, inflation occurs. In response, the government must print money to give to the goyim such that they can buy a bag of flour for 5 dollars despite it being only worth 50 cents.
General Butler concludes that the only way to end this perpetual war economy is for the citizens to demand that those who vote to go to war, go to war themselves. Given than America, at the time he wrote his short book, was impervious to invasion, he saw zero legitimate reason for the United States to participate in foreign wars.
End unnecessary wars. This was a message sounded by President Trump. It is a true message.
Bumping nonshill thread. This board has degenerated into b and x mixed with the donald
Ethan Allen
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Kevin Jones
great contribution there
Henry White
>so that the soldiers are sufficiently equipped to win the war. Is that what they tell you? Nobody is paying $10,000 for a wireframe chair to win a war.
My main problem with wars over the last half century or so: is that they're more concerned about contracts and post-war logistics, than they are about the actual conflicts.
Brayden Nelson
>the only Officer of the US to receive 2 medals of valor Then you do not know yer history. Who is Dan Daily?
Ethan Brooks
Now. that's a racket
Justin Nelson
>people make war for profit Stop the presses everyone!!!
Adam Clark
I recommend this book in every book thread that I see. It's awesome and is super short.
do the math. the government supports those that can supply the raw materials to make what they need to win a war. without a need to win a war, those companies could not charge nearly so much for their goods.
Christopher Foster
its short length is what makes it effective. I wish more people would read it.
And yet here we are, still stuck in the loop of making weapons that will be later sold to smaller regimes so they can kill each other and everyone at the top makes a profit. If only America wasn't a corporation and everyone considered an asset that can be borrowed against at birth, and had a money supply represented by gold and not debt then at least the profits from wars would stay in the country
Colton Allen
Officer, not enlisted, is an important distinction.
Mason Reed
bump
Mason Brown
Send the politicians to the wars they fund from money taxed from the people. Until that happens, unnecessary wars will not cease. Even in the Roman Empire, those in power typically would fight in the wars they wished to win. Nowadays, in our Babylon, our politicians will not fight but will order their tax paying citizens to fight in wars they do not want.
Wyatt Turner
>without a need to win a war, those companies could not charge nearly so much for their goods. It's actually the opposite. If we needed to win a war, they wouldn't be gouging the country at every level. Because their existence would be predicated on victory.
Ayden Baker
While I agree with you, times have changed. The thesis of his argument stands when it was written. We are witnessing the inevitable conclusion of what he described. Simply, that to justify incessant inflation the government must maintain war. Doing so allows the government to claim right to demand more goods, and therefor inflation continues, which leads to more inflation. If we accept that this is the modern trend, that war economy has not and will not ever end, then we accept that inflation will routinely occur. Even economists argue a 3-5% inflation rate is healthy. Those arguments began after war economies became profitable.
Send politicians to battle. Not tax paying citizens who want nothing to do with the war. WWI was a mistake. WWII was a mistake. Those who died in Afghanistan and Iraq died for nothing other than making the US government money, which is passed to the senators and house members who vote for the wars.
Jack Foster
The defense contractors are a bunch of filthy kikes.
Firing one shot at a guy with an AK worth $1500(probaly a gift from the CIA in the '80 so $0) Real question: Do neocons and other boomer "conservatives" genuinely believe that this wars can be won?
Matthew Russell
The Secret Space Program says hello.
Luis Gray
Butler only half understood the problem. He complained about corruption but never asked just who the people doing the corrupting were. His argument is only one of practicality and not morals.
Brody Torres
Medals of honor you nasty civilian slugfucking bitch.
Easton Scott
"Babylon" is a great name because that's exactly what the world is today. A global kakistocracy of demon worshiping egoists, with many different languages and belief systems to keep us divided and confused. The ones above the politicians are the true power and influence over us, to break the conditioning we need to punch out the overseeing eye in Basel (BIS)
Grayson Gutierrez
This is a lesson then as why to not call zog out. An argument stands more through time if you do not nitpick particulars of parties and pretenders involved.
Tyler Howard
Most don't know of BIS and claim it's the Jews. So little do they know
Nicholas Allen
lol i'm sure one of alexander the greats generals asked him the same thing 2300 years ago
Sebastian Howard
The answer is emphatically no. Wars were waged for property but no one will now state such a fact nowadays
Julian Taylor
I don't have the quote but some British general lamented America winning because we would never have civilized and chess like war ever again. Wish I could find it.
Evan Miller
When Jacob Rothschild called himself a Jew I couldn't stop laughing, listen to him accept his jewishness and his support of Zionism in the first twenty seconds: youtube.com/watch?v=cZYs88HpEb0
Jackson Richardson
Thanks for the link
David Hall
WOKE BOOK
Luke Moore
Smedley "Second March to the Sea" Butler.
Charles Russell
Good to see this here. Only an idiot would believe there are any worthwhile wars these days. >the whole system is corrupt, from top to bottom! >THIS WAR RIGHT HERE IS TOTALLY WORTH IT THOUGH
Wars these days are not about defending your family or tribe. They are about making money for them.
Ethan Morales
This. War is about property. In the past if you decided to genocide a populace, guess what, no one is alive to claim a cause of war. Property has ancient traditions and war was the way of elimating them. When the United States nowadays decides to send their able bodied to war, they don't want property, they want group think. They demand that every living person subscribes to the us world view. Is that justified for warfare in the modern era? Just because Sadam might have had nukes, does it justify destabilizing an entire region , particularly when only a few bad actors acted? No, it does not meet the standard for war and it's only purpose serves to fill the coffers of government with taxpayer money and more corpses
Nathaniel Carter
War is always ALWAYS economic in nature.
Economic in reason (for land, resources, property, pride for the populace to be better controlled, boost of ratings for leaders, national security for better economy etc etc.)
Economic in range (Wars only last as long and as far as the economy can take it)
Economic in operation (Logistic determines the rules in which all other strategic and tactical decisions are made, logistical concern is the HIGHEST CONCERN.)
Economic in result, winning or losing (need I say more?)
Gavin Ortiz
Smedley Butler is a motherfucking Hero.
John Edwards
>Smedley Butler is a motherfucking Hero.
He fought against the deepstate before it was cool.
Luke Lopez
When an all out assault on America is not feasible due to our landmass and distance from potential hostile forces, is it economic for the United States to wage constant wars overseas? I agree with you completely and just simply add that if the American people wake up to the racket, the world may stabilize significantly.
Carter Williams
Bump
Matthew Perez
He thought he was saving America by ratting on the people behind the Business Plot coup, and inadvertently fucked us. The book was good though.
Grayson Phillips
>ratting on the people behind the Business Plot coup, and inadvertently fucked us.
Explain yourself you piece of shit.
Parker Miller
>The Business Plot was an alleged political conspiracy in 1933 in the United States. Retired Marine Corps Major General Smedley Butler claimed that wealthy businessmen were plotting to create a fascist veterans' organization with Butler as its leader and use it in a coup d'état to overthrow President Franklin D. Roosevelt. In 1934, Butler testified before the United States House of Representatives Special Committee on Un-American Activities (the "McCormack-Dickstein Committee") on these claims. No one was prosecuted.
If the plot worked, America would probably have either stayed out of WW2 or would have joined the axis instead. Now I'm not saying it would have been perfect or solved all our problems, but it sounds like it'd be much better than what we have now.
Andrew Nelson
America's real founding father.
Adrian Harris
Jesse Ventura is on point for most issues. It's a shame he let marijuana ruin his reputation. If he ran in 2024 I would vote for him 6 times
Matthew Morales
Another reason why the Marines are the chad of the armed services. 1/7 A
Xavier Adams
Meh. If you buy the book it goes into detail and his participation was solely to regain wwi veterans their legally allowed shekels from the government which said government refused to allocate.
Sebastian Lee
Look up bonus army for anyone not knowing of the issue. Essentially, veterans of wwi had legal right to claim money for service and Congress and courts said absolutely not. It was very fucked up
Lincoln Cox
>If the plot worked, America would probably have either stayed out of WW2 or would have joined the axis instead.
Bullshit, they wanted to start the NWO 80 some years ago, smedley saved us, and now it's our turn to continue the fight.
