The Republican president has previously referred to fallen American service personnel as “suckers” and “losers.” He has never served in the military, having in fact dodged the Vietnam War draft on five occasions. The last of those owed to a bone spur diagnosis. It’s a condition that usually affects elderly individuals. He was 22 at the time.
Trump has similarly threatened to invade U.S. allies Panama, Canada, Colombia, Mexico, and Greenland, which is an autonomous territory of Denmark, a fellow NATO member.
The MAGA president’s growing, campaign-promise-busting appetite for military engagement also comes amid his bitter disappointment at being passed over for last year’s Nobel Peace Prize, despite a concerted public and private push by his allies. It was previously awarded to his Democratic predecessor, President Barack Obama.
In a letter regarding that snub, Trump wrote to Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre in January that “considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace.”
The Norwegian government is not affiliated with the Nobel Committee, which decides independently to whom it will grant its awards. Trump’s claim to have stopped eight wars remains highly disputed.
Wars should be fought by their leaders, not their citizens.
When the sky darkens and the prospect is war, who’s given the gun and been pushed to the floor and expected to die for the land of our birth, though we’ve never owned one lousy handful of earth?
We’re the first ones to starve, we’re the first ones to die. The first ones in line for that pie-in-the-sky, and we’re always the last when the cream is shared out, for the worker is working when the fat cat’s about.
“But then all of our leaders would be 'roided up MMA specialists!”
“And would that be any worse than our current arrangement.”
“…”
“Why don’t presidents fight the wars? Why do they always send the poor?”
WHY DO THEY ALWAYS SEND THE POOOOOOOR
Hangars sitting dripped in oil, crying, “FREEEEDOOOOOOM”
“Handed to obsoletion, still, you feed us liiies from the tablecloth !”
How about if these wars are fought by dumbass Pedonald supporters.
Anyone that bought any of those stupid red caps or flew a Pedonald flag or wore a “fuck your feelings” shirt gets to be on the front lines…
That is exactly what they are doing. The military is mercenary.
“Politicians hide themselves away
They only started the war
Why should they go out to fight?
They leave that role to the poor”
The problem is, for most of them, their judgement day never comes. And sadly I do not think the states are going to pull out of this one on their own.
The people wake up and judge every morning, but it’s up to them to pick the day.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Is_a_Racket
Evergreen, and written by someone with unimpeachable credentials wrt war.
There’s an old saying about old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in