Aphorisms Submit an Aphorism Vote up! -2 Vote down! War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives. Author US Marine Corps Major General Smedley Butler Vote up! 0 Vote down! Europe says it is getting off the needle of Russian oil and gas. And it risks getting impaled by an aspen stake, which [the US] is actively sharpening for the Europeans. Author Sergey Lavrov Vote up! 0 Vote down! Why the war... (click) Author Miles Mathis more aphorisms
Vote up! -2 Vote down! War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives. Author US Marine Corps Major General Smedley Butler
Vote up! 0 Vote down! Europe says it is getting off the needle of Russian oil and gas. And it risks getting impaled by an aspen stake, which [the US] is actively sharpening for the Europeans. Author Sergey Lavrov
War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.