Reminder: it's not a "war for oil" when the oil is worth $100 billion but the war costs $10 trillion. Rather, it's all a big scam to justify government raising taxes and exerting deadly power.
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In reviewing the history of the English Government, its wars and its taxes, a bystander, not blinded by prejudice nor warped by interest, would declare that taxes were not raised to carry on wars, but that wars were raised to carry on taxes. — Thomas Paine, "Rights of Man"
8:05 AM - 12 Nov 2019
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