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Link: Bombenomics: Biden admin circulates map showing states that benefit from Ukraine aid

Bombenomics. michael-laugh

They're admitting in this article that this just to get rid of old inventory to— you guessed it, go to war with China!

"Line go up! More war means more treats!" porky-point

Something something highest stage lenin-tea

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[–] principalkohoutek@hexbear.net 62 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some fifty miles of concrete pavement. We pay for a single fighter with a half-million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people. . . . This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.[1][5

[–] alcoholicorn@hexbear.net 46 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Damn, if only he thought about this before spending billions on the military industrial complex and ramping up the cold war.

[–] huf@hexbear.net 18 points 11 months ago

he had no choice, someone wanted something better for the world. he had to take a principled stand against good things.

[–] Ho_Chi_Chungus@hexbear.net 28 points 11 months ago

A brilliant, beautiful quote, from our dear comrade... checks notes FUCKING DWIGHT EISENHOWER?????