"War is a racket. 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.“


-Smedley Butler

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War is a racket. 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.

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