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War Certainly Is A Racket
2023-02-19
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[Off Guardian] Wars don’t just "happen" by accident. They are planned, engineered and delivered as required. Our’s and our children’s deaths mean nothing to the people who we allow to lead us into war. They don’t have skin in the game but they should and we have the power to make sure that they do. All we have to do is refuse to fight. It really isn’t rocket science. Obedience is not a virtue.

But we won’t because we continue to fall for the same old lies, time and time again. We continue to imagine, like amnesiac slaves, that we can only be led to a better future by following another bunch of parasitic criminals.

Around and around we go: blowing up and starving children to death, condemning pensioners to freezing fuel poverty and accepting that we might just have to sacrifice ourselves and our loved ones along the way.

When the warmongers next press gang our sons and daughters into dying for their ambitions, we will again say it is in a good cause: for the defence of our country, our culture or our way of life.

It isn’t, it never was and it never will be as long as we continue to go along with it.
Posted by:Besoeker

#3  It was already "a racket" in Ancient Times: gold coinage was needed for equipment, rations and pay for civilized armies. Gold doesn't spontaneously appear and somebody needs to want to make it available.
Posted by: magpie   2023-02-19 14:47  

#2  You might not be interested in war, but war is interested in you - Trotsky

People who are unwilling to fight have usually been called slave in one form or another over thousands of years of human experience.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2023-02-19 13:30  

#1  All we have to do is refuse to fight.

Be a catcher, not a pitcher?

North Korea confirms ICBM test, warns of more powerful steps in response to South Korea, US trainings
Posted by: Skidmark   2023-02-19 09:52  

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