Our national security interests are proving to be too much of a hard sell, so Biden goes with the "war is good for business" route to raise money for war.
Apparently Biden believes 50,000 dying in ‘Nam was worth it. I wish he’d answer real questions. Too bad Democrats don’t even care to question the obvious failures of biden. He is the worst president we’ve had in our lifetime.
Biden in his youngest days would have believed and parroted anything that LBJ wanted him to. I gather the author of this piece wasn't around then. "War is good business" was a line used against Nixon and the GOP 50-60 years ago. Of course it was used against FDR in the later 1930's or even the Merchants of Death of the WWI era. Every time the US has gone into the business of making munitions for other countries' wars it has ended badly for us!
Hi Nathan. Thanks for taking the time to comment. You are only wrong about one thing: I am most definitely was around when the same theme was being used against LBJ and Nixon. In fact, I was a member of 10th Special Forces Group when LBJ was president I just used the more recent examples of Bush and Cheney, because I thought that more readers would be personally familiar with that. So please excuse that little quibble with your comment, and I thank you again for it.
> I am old enough to remember how the left tarred George Bush, Dick Cheney, and others in the GOP with the argument that they wanted war because it was good for their supporters in big business. I never put any stock in these arguments because I thought that no American could be so evil as to support war as a sop to big business. The Biden administration has changed my mind.
I'm not even convinced they believe the argument themselves. So much as having spent the past decade talking how America is Evil, Racist, and Colonialist, they've undermined any argument based on America doing good in the world.
You don’t actually find business people saying these things, nor practicing them. In myth yes, in practice no.
The actual Rothschilds were against war once the Napoleonic Wars ended until WW1. It destroyed their investments.
> In WW1 they supported their respective nations of England, France, Italy, Austria, as they were now citizens. They also fought personally. <
JP Morgan wanted to save England in WW1, but in 1919 offered to forgive the allies debts.
Wilson refused for Diplomatic reasons. Some Banker!
Bankers and Industrialists started buying the USSR from the start.
Buying the USSR did ultimately work. Profit? Well, avoiding WW3. So far.
Ford wanted to buy Hitler , it failed. He wasn’t alone.
This didn’t BTW make him a Nazi.
In 2020 the “Big 5” made $246B.
WALMART made $523B. Yes, WALMART is more than double the Big 5 together.
In 2023 for all the talk of the great massive Daddy Warbucks other than stock prices going up the production isn’t happening.
The production, not the spending, not the hype, not the stock prices.
War talk about China and Russian sanctions have NOT been good for business. It is Good for workers as factories are being reshored in a tidal wave, because supply chains are so unreliable and expensive. Energy costs exploded. In Europe Industry shuttering or moving to USA.
The Politicians and indeed American Diplomats love war, the soldiers and businessmen not so much. Voters? Their sons and neighbors sons fight, I doubt they’re enthusiastic.
Wasn't it President Dwight Eisenhower, upon departing his final term in office, that warned about the Military Industrial Complex? Who better to give the warning than a decorated war time General and a President. Crazy how no one heeded the call.
Apparently Biden believes 50,000 dying in ‘Nam was worth it. I wish he’d answer real questions. Too bad Democrats don’t even care to question the obvious failures of biden. He is the worst president we’ve had in our lifetime.
Biden in his youngest days would have believed and parroted anything that LBJ wanted him to. I gather the author of this piece wasn't around then. "War is good business" was a line used against Nixon and the GOP 50-60 years ago. Of course it was used against FDR in the later 1930's or even the Merchants of Death of the WWI era. Every time the US has gone into the business of making munitions for other countries' wars it has ended badly for us!
Hi Nathan. Thanks for taking the time to comment. You are only wrong about one thing: I am most definitely was around when the same theme was being used against LBJ and Nixon. In fact, I was a member of 10th Special Forces Group when LBJ was president I just used the more recent examples of Bush and Cheney, because I thought that more readers would be personally familiar with that. So please excuse that little quibble with your comment, and I thank you again for it.
> I am old enough to remember how the left tarred George Bush, Dick Cheney, and others in the GOP with the argument that they wanted war because it was good for their supporters in big business. I never put any stock in these arguments because I thought that no American could be so evil as to support war as a sop to big business. The Biden administration has changed my mind.
I'm not even convinced they believe the argument themselves. So much as having spent the past decade talking how America is Evil, Racist, and Colonialist, they've undermined any argument based on America doing good in the world.
You don’t actually find business people saying these things, nor practicing them. In myth yes, in practice no.
The actual Rothschilds were against war once the Napoleonic Wars ended until WW1. It destroyed their investments.
> In WW1 they supported their respective nations of England, France, Italy, Austria, as they were now citizens. They also fought personally. <
JP Morgan wanted to save England in WW1, but in 1919 offered to forgive the allies debts.
Wilson refused for Diplomatic reasons. Some Banker!
Bankers and Industrialists started buying the USSR from the start.
Buying the USSR did ultimately work. Profit? Well, avoiding WW3. So far.
Ford wanted to buy Hitler , it failed. He wasn’t alone.
This didn’t BTW make him a Nazi.
In 2020 the “Big 5” made $246B.
WALMART made $523B. Yes, WALMART is more than double the Big 5 together.
In 2023 for all the talk of the great massive Daddy Warbucks other than stock prices going up the production isn’t happening.
The production, not the spending, not the hype, not the stock prices.
War talk about China and Russian sanctions have NOT been good for business. It is Good for workers as factories are being reshored in a tidal wave, because supply chains are so unreliable and expensive. Energy costs exploded. In Europe Industry shuttering or moving to USA.
The Politicians and indeed American Diplomats love war, the soldiers and businessmen not so much. Voters? Their sons and neighbors sons fight, I doubt they’re enthusiastic.
Ol Joe and his handlers are flailing.
Listen he’s famous for being an occasional honest politician, aka gaffes; a gaffe is when a politician is honest.
See also “it’s not who votes but who counts the votes.”
Originally Stalin -who could afford honesty.
Repeated by Biden, who can’t...
Wasn't it President Dwight Eisenhower, upon departing his final term in office, that warned about the Military Industrial Complex? Who better to give the warning than a decorated war time General and a President. Crazy how no one heeded the call.
Thanks for taking the time to comment, Kathleen. It was indeed Ike who cautioned about that.