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snot

(10,798 posts)
2. I'm curious how "I'm done" will manifest.
Sat Apr 13, 2024, 02:21 PM
Apr 2024

I too am fed up with endless war, direct and indirect, leaving wakes of destruction and no gain beyond the warmongers' coffers. And then we/the MSM pretend that the costs of war don't drain us – that rampant inflation is just a hangover from the pandemic, or whatever.

"Why of course the people don't want war. Why should some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece? . . . But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. . . . All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger."

– Hermann Goering, per Nuremberg Diary (Farrar, Straus & Co 1947)

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