(03-14-2026, 10:42 PM)putnam6 Wrote: Sure, there are loads of war profiteers on both sides, and always have been.
They sold us on liberating Ukraine from Russia Im fine with liberating the women and men from Iran's fanatical clerics, sticking it to the Chinese and the Russians by them losing oil to losing a place to sell thier military wares.
long way to go it's still worth the shot
That's something I've noticed here in the US - the folks who sold us hard on involving ourselves in the Ukraine are now suddenly against war... except, of course, they'd still like to get their kill-jollies in the Ukraine. That war is ok to them - this other war, now.... people might DIE! Don't we understand?
It boggles the mind.
“Trouble rather the tiger in his lair than the sage among his books. For to you kingdoms and their armies are things mighty and enduring, but to him they are but toys of the moment, to be overturned with the flick of a finger.”
― Gordon R. Dickson, Tactics of Mistake
― Gordon R. Dickson, Tactics of Mistake