It wouldn’t hurt to bring this up the next time someone tells you Trump is an anti-war candidate.

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    27 days ago

    Ultimately there’s no objective measure of whether “war is profitable”. There’s no objective definition of war. There’s no objective measurement of the “sides” and their profit/loss, much less the nuances of who specifically profits or loses.

    But total was is relatively profitable versus being destroyed. And it’s absolutely profitable for a select group of people. Most often it’s similar people on “both sides” that profit.

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      27 days ago

      Profitable for a select group of people, who should be named, shamed, tarred and feathered.

      I believe that if you were to do an economic analysis of the total P/L of the entirety of human conflict, the L column would overwhelmingly outweighs the P column, even leaving out all modern warfare, which just ramps up the L side. I say that because one of my econ professors did just that during a class. He published a paper about it, but I have no clue what it was called, it would have been somewhere between '96 and '98 that he published it.

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        25 days ago

        They own all the guns though how can we name and shame when they can just destroy lives with impunity?