by Ron Paul
“War is a racket, wrote US Maj. General Smedley Butler in 1935. He explained: “A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people. Only a small ‘inside’ group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many. Out of war a few people make huge fortunes.”
Gen. Butler’s observation describes the US/NATO response to the Ukraine war perfectly.
The propaganda continues to portray the war in Ukraine as that of an unprovoked Goliath out to decimate an innocent David unless we in the US and NATO contribute massive amounts of military equipment to Ukraine to defeat Russia. As is always the case with propaganda, this version of events is manipulated to bring an emotional response to the benefit of special interests.
One group of special interests profiting massively on the war is the US military-industrial complex. Raytheon CEO Greg Hayes recently told a meeting of shareholders that, “Everything that ‘s being shipped into Ukraine today, of course, is coming out of stockpiles, either at DOD or from our NATO allies, and that’s all great news. Eventually we’ll have to replenish it and we will see a benefit to the business.”
He wasn’t lying. Raytheon, along with Lockheed Martin and countless other weapons manufacturers are enjoying a windfall they have not seen in years. The US has committed more than three billion dollars in military aid to Ukraine. They call it aid, but it is actually corporate welfare: Washington sending billions to arms manufacturers for weapons sent overseas.
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By many accounts these shipments of weapons like the Javelin anti-tank missile (jointly manufactured by Raytheon and Lockheed Martin) are getting blown up as soon as they arrive in Ukraine. This doesn’t bother Raytheon at all. The more weapons blown up by Russia in Ukraine, the more new orders come from the Pentagon.
Former Warsaw Pact countries now members of NATO are in on the scam as well. They’ve discovered how to dispose of their 30-year-old Soviet-made weapons and receive modern replacements from the US and other western NATO countries.
While many who sympathize with Ukraine are cheering, this multi-billion dollar weapons package will make little difference. As former US Marine intelligence officer Scott Ritter said on the Ron Paul Liberty Report last week, “I can say with absolute certainty that even if this aid makes it to the battlefield, it will have zero impact on the battle. And Joe Biden knows it.”
Expect a huge cyber attack, released and commissioned by our own government and the EU, blamed on Russia.
Covid, all over again.
The Great Reset needs most of the world’s citizens to die, and they are trying to do that.
Dr Paul could not be more correct. We are wasting time and treasure in the Russian speaking eastern border of Ukraine.
We have a vital national security interest at our southern border and no interest whatsoever in the Russian speaking eastern border of Ukraine
Rand Paul is a traitor to his nation.
Sorry Greggie, you have THAT distinction.
03/08/22- Ex-Rand Paul aide pardoned by Trump is charged with funneling Russian money into 2016 election
Who funneled more this guy or zuckerberg
Former U.S. Ambassador Charged With Working on Behalf of Qatar WHILE IN OBAMA’S WHITE HOUSE
Richard G Olson was a Bush Administration carryover.
So, he worked for your savior obama
Rapist threatens to kill victim if she resists beating: Moscow threatens to hit Kyiv with long-range missiles if it attacks Russian soil
https://twitter.com/Youblacksoul/status/1519380889247100928
When he’s not working in Russian child porn videos, “Juan Sinmiedo” hosts Putin propaganda videos on Twitter.
Better then the Nazi propaganda you spit out.
Social media memes will rot our minds and destroy our power to think for ourselves.
Too late. We’ve been saying that for the past 10 years.
Now the Left pretends to dismiss or hate the very thing they used to oppress the rest of us?
That’s rich.
They dont like the meme war cause it takes wit, they are unarmed
Your entire “movement” is driven by social media memes. Consider your current online surroundings.
https://twitter.com/Youblacksoul/status/1519380529405214722
Juan Sinmiendo–part-time Putin propagandist, part-time Russian pornographer.
DHS Chief Mayorkas Absurdly Claims, “We Have Effectively Managed” Biden’s Border Crisis – As Millions of Illegals Pour Over the Border (VIDEO)
He inherited a “broken” border. It wasn’t letting enough illegal immigrants, terrorists, criminals and fentanyl in, so they fixed it. Working fine now.
STAY AWAY: DeSantis Warns That Democrats Fleeing California “Dumpster Fire” Will Move to Florida and Attempt to Ruin State with Leftist Policies
https://twitter.com/PelmeniPusha/status/1519398706159620096
“Trained draftees” are the kids Russian officers shoot if they don’t march into machine gun fire. They’re also the guys who have turned around and shot their own officers.
Russia is winning.
Your team, apparently. TRUMPUTIN 2016/2024.
Do provide proof the kids shot the officers, you lying fool
Actually, the commander of 37th Motor Rifle Brigade wasn’t shot. He was deliberately run over.
zelensky is not to be trusted
Yuri Medvedev was the 37th Motor Rifle Brigade commander, killed after the brigade experienced 50% casualties under his command.
You lied and said he was shot. You got busted how many other officers have been killed by their own troops because part of your lie was using plural as in more than 1. liar goose stepper.
https://twitter.com/PelmeniPusha/status/1519330514078818305
Yeah, Putin is “coping” so well that Sergey Lavrov keeps threatening nuclear war. Do they think they’re effin’ immune to our own ICBMs?
Russia is winning.
The ruble is strong, and Putin’s popularity is high.
Biden’s (more like his EU handlers) sanctions have failed, and hurt their home countries more than Putin.
Germany hit 30% inflation
What about their nuclear threat? They’re putting a pistol to their own head and threatening to shoot. THAT’S their nuclear threat.
NATO could move into Ukraine and stop at the Russian border. Putin could then pull the trigger or not—assuming somebody in Russia doesn’t kill him first. Europe could secure its necessary natural gas by buying it from Ukraine’s offshore supply. Energy sales by Ukraine would then finance the reconstruction of a new NATO member, so Europe wouldn’t have to foot the bill for Putin’s wanton destruction.
Unfortunately, nothing will bring back the tens of thousands of innocent people he has already murdered—ethnically both Ukrainian and Russian.
In a nuclear exchange, how many weapons do you think it would take to totally f*ck up the planet? Idiot Biden opened the door to this and now it is spinning out of control.
That it’s not a credible threat was my point. The Russian pimp in elevator shoes is bluffing.
On the off chance that he’s actually a psycho, someone in Russia should eliminate him. He seems to prefer poison, himself.
Funny, it didn’t seem like you thought he was bluffing in the post..hmmmm
Vladimir Putin is currently the most hated human being on the planet.
That’s debatable.
The silly propaganda you’re putting out is just f*cking stupid, at this point.
Go help the WEF do whatever they are going to do to start the next phase of their takeover. You’re efforts here are wasted.
Not so
biden is the most hated human being on the planet
https://twitter.com/morphonios/status/1519436979393466370?t=8SdFTTH-SJxRMgu0yBiM-w&s=19
There is no victory for Ukraine. This is a dead end war financed by Western European globalists and dumb shit war mongering democrats
So. we in America have a rich tradition of stifling Russia and avoiding nuclear war.
Biden and company seem to be inviting it.
If you let ’em fill your head with lies and garbage, all you’ll have is a head full of lies and garbage.
I will give you a hint the comment came from Poland’s PM, they live next door to Russia. They just had their gas shut off, it isnt very warm in Poland right now. Our gas prices are very high, that is not Putins fault it is Pete Buttplugs fault, the policies of this fake administration.
Electric cars are not green they cause more pollution to both manufacture and keep running than they will ever take out.
From Russian propaganda: war in the name of “Z”:
How do I spot fake social media accounts, bots and trolls?
You never study your sources ever.
If it is greggie sourcing something, you can count on it being fake news.
zelensky is a dirtbag
Good thing Musk bought Twitter, because one of his priorities is to make bots impossible on Twitter.
So you like Musk, then. Thought so.
Twitter is no longer part of the Democrat Media Complex, like facebook. Apples and oranges, now.
It is a Nato puppet regime being propped up with billions of Nato, mostly US tax dollars being flushed back to corrupt politicians. Its a racket.
^^^ From Globalist Propaganda ^^^
SPAM
What about Russia’s nuclear threat? They’re putting a pistol to their own head and threatening to shoot. THAT’S their nuclear threat.
NATO could move into Ukraine and stop at the Russian border. Putin could then pull the trigger or not—assuming somebody in Russia doesn’t kill him first. Europe could secure its necessary natural gas by buying it from Ukraine’s offshore supply. They could partner with Ukraine to develop it. Energy sales by Ukraine would then finance the reconstruction of a new NATO member, so Europe wouldn’t have to foot the bill for Putin’s wanton destruction.
Unfortunately, nothing will bring back the tens of thousands of innocent people he has already murdered—ethnically both Ukrainian and Russian.
A preventable invasion, caused by Obama/Biden and the cabal of asshole Globalists they work for.
No shit. They were just doing it dirty though morons like Hunter Biden and Burisma, siphoning Ukraine of it’s resources and not sharing any of that prosperity with it’s actual citizens. All of Hunter and Joe Biden’s assets should be seized, and given to the People of Ukraine.
04-27-22 – Putin threatens ‘lightning’ fast strikes on any nation that ‘interferes’ with Russia’s war in Ukraine
The man is insane.
I’ve been on Twitter, enjoying all the free speech and debate that comes with freedom.
The majority of people question this war, and the West’s part in causing it.
Sorry to break it to you, troll, but no one’s following the propaganda bait you’re laying down.
04/26/22 – Nearly three-fourths of Americans support US helping supply weapons to Ukraine: poll
Biden’s approval rating–with the war, inflation, and the housing bubble–is 46%, which is still 5 points higher than Trump’s overall four-year average of 41%.
It’s 39%, but who’s counting?
Probably nobody, since you’ve provided no source. Biden’s current average poll rating is 41.6%.
it is much lower than that
check independents and hispanics
Ouija board polls from average dead people.
The walls are closing in!!!!
The Unfiltered Truth About Green Energy
Russia brilliantly set up western Europe to be at the behest of Russian energy. Putin has planned this for decades in order to oppose the WEF and Brussels efforts to tame Russia and initiate regime change…
A jarhead said the same thing about WW1. A man GWB would have kicked out of Corps- Ankles to neck inked! One of 5 men (All Jarheads) to win 2 CMOh’s and live. “China Marine” Smedely D. Butler!
ps
DISCLAIMER: FORMER 5TH MARINE WAY (HUE) VETERAN WHOS DISPLATCAHE A FEW TO “MEET THEIR MAKLER”.
A 5th Marine should have got 3 but the dogfaces in Congress said
“Marines get too much glory already!” NO! Gunny Dan Daily at Bella Wood.
Y’re damn right I am biased!
04/30/22 – Images have emerged showing a statue of former Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin reportedly being re-erectred in an occupied Ukrainian town.
04/20/22 – Lenin Returns to Ukraine – It’s part of Russia’s attempt to ‘put things back the way they were.’
I thought Putin was “liberating” Ukraine from Nazis. Maybe they’re communist Nazis?
Nazi’s vs Communists….
Who gives a fuck? I mean seriously.
But hey Greg….you’ve picked a side. Mazel Tov
Indeed, I have rejected the de-Nazification lies told by a genocidal former KGB officer, as have most thoughtful Americans—which makes me wonder why you wish to turn the next two US elections into referendums on our nation’s support for Vladimir Putin, mass murderer.
Indeed…
Indeed
Indeed
Indeed
Sure doesn’t seem like it.
Indeed
Indeed
Indeed…Your Ukrainian heroes in full glory
So you think the Azov Battalion are responsible for Hitler’s atrocities of over 8 decades ago, because of a flag in a photograph.
Like Americans displaying Confederate flags are responsible for slavery and the Civil War, maybe?
I see the flag, but I also see the guys who’ve been dying in defense of their own country, trying to push out a genocidal foreign dictator who’s threatening to go nuclear and start a Third World War.
Taking sides was easy.
Seems to fit, you and your ilk are still blaming white people for the slavery of 150 years ago.
Russia is winning. This war was caused by mishandling foreign policy, and a constant NATO expansion backed by the US.
Ukraine houses secret biolabs, secret energy companies, and has served as a black-market playground for corrupt politicians, Biden being one. Trump was pretend-impeached after Biden admitted to withholding aid to Ukraine for personal favors.
It’s cute when you show your hand. Like Covid, Trump, and everything else, the faltering Left need only make it about some binary that they themselves invented.
No one is supporting Putin. Trump kept him at bay. We warned you about Putin.
Now he’s invading and the Democrats/Left shoulder ALL of the blame.
You caused this.
https://twitter.com/Youblacksoul/status/1521098965588000770
Try real hard, there is no USSR, no KGB, Russia is no longer a communist nation. I know your TV has not updated you. Ukrainian Oligarch hired Neonazis to protect his interests in Eastern Ukraine, called them militias. After a coup, which was a US state dept, CIA, and george Soros operation, the Russian friendly duly elected President fled the country. 2 Ukrainian States felt they had no representation and voted to succeed, this made the Oligarch angry and his militias were very mean to the people murdering over 10,000. The UN and Amnesty International complained to the installed government of Ukraine, so they incorporated the Nazis into the military. Some Nazis are in their government too and police force, they are mean to those that are not against Russia.
The Government there is highly corrupt, the are a hub for money laundering, human trafficking, and weapons running. To think a 2 bit comedian that played the piano with his schwanz was not installed as a puppet, and made very rich, by the oligarch, makes you stupid.
Today I saw another video, the Russian military stole a relief convoy filled with food aid, it did not reach the Nazis in the steel plant, the Nasty Russian thieves handed it out to the very hungry Ukrainian people, with cameras running like the other propaganda videos of them handing out food medicine and even candy to the children.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10771341/Shocking-footage-shows-Russian-soldiers-handing-hijacked-Ukrainian-aid-Mariupol.html?ito=video_player_click
Why havent we seen any of this from Ukrainian side but lots from russian propaganda?
They’re probably somehow colluding with Disney to promote pedophilia, electric cars, and feminism, too.
Where are the propaganda videos of the Nazis feeding the people? We see them tape people to poles, we see them beating people. Common Greggie they are not winning the propaganda or real war.
Onward feminazis, marching as to war. Killing all the babies, so you can be a whore. Common Greggie sing it with me!
Maskless Nancy goes to the laundrymat
I don’t believe Javelin Missiles will fit into washing machines as easily as the propaganda image will fit into a simple person’s head.
Trump thought the same when he actually gave Ukraine lethal aid, and actually started to investigate our slimly corrupt politicians getting rich off the resources that belong to the noble Ukrainians.