The U.S. Department of Defense has once again failed to pass its annual audit, marking the sixth consecutive year of financial unaccountability in what has been described as a 'Multi-Trillion Dollar Fraud'. Despite this, the Pentagon continues to receive and spend trillions of dollars of U.S. taxpayer money. Criticism of the Pentagon's financial management has been echoed by various voices, including references to 'bankers who financed the great war' and the 'sinister agents of those who profit by war', as underscored by Marine General Smedley Butler's remarks from 1938. Butler's comments, which reflect his experience in the Marines as a 'high class muscle-man for Big Business', suggest that the military often serves the interests of big business and bankers. The broader skepticism about the U.S. government's effectiveness extends beyond military spending to its inability to resolve major domestic and global challenges, including the inability to 'stop the climate from changing'. General Butler also famously stated that 'WAR is a racket', emphasizing the financial gains of conflict at the expense of human lives.
WAR is a racket....It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives” Marine General Smedley Butler
If you believe the same U.S. government that can't account for trillions in military funding, can't win wars, can't cure any major diseases, can't balance the budget, can't stop crime in our inner cities, and can't define gender, can stop the climate from changing,…
"I spent most of my time [in Marines] being a high class muscle-man for Big Business, for Wall Street and for the Bankers." ~ Marine General Smedley Butler circa 1938
At all these conferences, lurking in the background but all-powerful, are the sinister agents of those who profit by war. Marine General Smedley Butler
"And let us not forget bankers who financed the great war. If anyone had the cream of profits it was bankers" circa 1938 Marine Gen. Smedley Butler
America is the world's finest at losing wars with giant budgets. Don't fall for this pro-US military management meme. The powers that be want us in forever wars and they fooled ya once, twice, and more...... A sharp man once told me: Google the last General killed in combat.… https://t.co/kRL6aGnOuE
Why The #Pentagon Is A Multi-Trillion Dollar Fraud The US Department of Defense has failed its sixth annual audit in a row, but taxpayer money will keep going down that drain...... Recently, the Pentagon admitted it couldn’t account for trillions of dollars of US taxpayer… https://t.co/F5D1uX0GKV