Photos Of BSA #11: War is a Racket

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“War is a racket. It constantly has been. It is maybe the oldest, effortlessly the most lucrative, certainly the most vicious. It is the only 1 international in scope. It is the only just one in which the income are reckoned in bucks and the losses in lives. A racket is ideal described, I think, as some thing that is not what it appears to the majority of the people today. Only a compact ‘inside’ team understands what it is about. It is conducted for the advantage of the extremely couple of, at the expenditure of the pretty a lot of. Out of war a few folks make large fortunes.”

~Important Normal Smedley D. Butler

*From Wikipedia:

Butler confesses that throughout his decades of service in the United States Maritime Corps:

“I aided make Mexico, specifically Tampico, harmless for American oil pursuits in 1914. I served make Haiti and Cuba a good put for the Nationwide Metropolis Bank boys to acquire revenues in. I helped in the raping of 50 % a dozen Central American republics for the gains of Wall Road. The history of racketeering is prolonged. I served purify Nicaragua for the worldwide banking dwelling of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912 (in which have I heard that title just before?). I introduced light-weight to the Dominican Republic for American sugar pursuits in 1916. In China I helped see to it that Conventional Oil went its way unmolested.”

Berlin Diary. Working day #1 / Cease Wars