Guest Post by Martin Armstrong
My family has fought in every war since the American Revolution. My cousin still has the musket on his wall from the American Revolution. I lost half of my high school friends to Vietnam and my father and his three brothers were all in World War II and my grandfathers on both sides of the family were in World War I. There is no question that in a time of war, the first shot fired is both silent and never against an enemy. It is always against any truthful reporting of events.
The Defense Casualty Analysis System (DCAS) Extract Files contain records of 58,220 U.S. military fatal casualties of the Vietnam War. The government propaganda site, Wikipedia also directed by the Deep States, has low-balled the casualties claiming in total, all US and allied military deaths reached 282,000. We claim that is a victory for the VC lost 444,000 to possibly 666,000. The civilians who died have been low-balled with estimates of 405,000 up to 627,000. Just turn to Britannica and you get:
“In 1995 Vietnam released its official estimate of the number of people killed during the Vietnam War: as many as 2,000,000 civilians on both sides and some 1,100,000 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong fighters.”
This is a famous photograph from Vietnam that is probably the most memorable of all time. You see South Vietnamese forces following terrified children. At the center is 9-year-old Phan Thi Kim Phùc, as she and other children are running from an aerial napalm attack on suspected Viet Cong hiding places on June 8, 1972. The plane accidentally dropped napalm on South Vietnamese troops and civilians. As always, just the collateral damage of war. The terrified girl had ripped off her burning clothes while fleeing. This photo was taken by Nick Ut of The Associated Press that captured the horror of Vietnam worldwide. It was 1972 when President Nixon said enough and promised to bring the troops home.
This 9-year-old make girl running from napalm, Phan Thi Kim Phúc, had profoundly changed her forever. Such people are tormented for a lifetime. They wake up at night dreaming over and over about the horror of those events for the rest of their lives. Kim Phúc was bitter and full of hatred she said. Later, she picked up the Bible and converted to Christianity. Today, she lives in Toronto with her family and helps other children victims of war around the world. It is those who survive who are profoundly tortured for the remainder of their lives. That is the real cost of war that nobody cares about.
The official estimate of civilian deaths in World War II stands at An estimated total of 70–85 million. The actual military deaths were 21,000,000 to 25,500,000. There is ALWAYS an equal amount of civilian deaths in times of war. Those in power never want to talk about that.
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“As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.” ― Oscar Wilde
“Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. ” ― George Orwell
The real cost of war is “Blowing in the Wind”, other then that, there is plenty of money to be made!
The ones beating the war drums never fight the war.
No worries, bruh , Uncle Schlomo got this.
Five active-duty soldiers assigned to Fort Polk have been arrested and charged with conspiring together to rape two women at a residence in Rosepine, according to Vernon Parish authorities.
Fort Poke
We come to Poke Salad Annie.
Exactly why the Roman empire fell, non Romans constituting the military.
And because it was an immoral invasive empire, like all empires.
And died – like all empires. Including America.
That was a symptom of the degeneracy that caused the fall of the empire not the not the cause.
Illegal Immigrants in Law Enforcement (SB-960)
This bill removes the provision that an individual must be a citizen or permanent resident of the United States in order to become a police officer so long as they are legally authorized to work.
The bill only allows legal immigrants to become officers but does not specify that illegal immigrants are barred from doing so.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/california-2023-new-laws-abortion-transgender-youth-illegal-immigrant-police
take a good look at them.
A million more streaming across the border every year, with no other job prospects, soon, but organized murder, rape, conquest.
who is feeding and sheltering them? gotta cost $
Soros
I wonder how recently the crossed the border?
Unfortunately, it was only after I served in the Cuban Crisis, walled east Berlin & Vietnam that I awakened to the fact that virtually all wars are created by the rich and kill & maim mostly the poor. RJ Rummel’s book shows that 262,000,000 totally innocent non-combat deaths were at the hands of government in the 100 years of the 20th century. The millions of deaths and injuries among the military is always the poor & middle class and never the wealthy or politically connected. Today the US has 857 military installations in 152 countries and doing our best to force Russia who has no foreign military bases to use their nukes since they admittedly cannot win a conventional war with the collective west. Sorry, I do not support the clowns in DC nor our troops in Europe preparing to put boots on the ground. I am doing the best I can to survive after the nukes start filling our skies because our demonic leaders are hellbent on bringing this about.
They are only leaders if they are followed.
So you think the guy behind the console with his finger on the launch button is going to push back from that and say, nope, not gonna launch. Or do you think that you not following along with the required mandates is somehow going to prevent a govt zombie to not push the launch button??
Deep Shekels want Russia’s wealth. There it is. America is no longer a nation, but an international rape gang.
From a U.S. perspective on grand strategy and geopolitics, it can be noted that most of the world’s people, resources, and economic activity are located not in the Western Hemisphere, but in the other hemisphere, particularly Eurasia. In response to this basic feature of world geography, U.S. policymakers for the last several decades have chosen to pursue, as a key element of U.S. national strategy, a goal of preventing the emergence of regional hegemons in Eurasia. Although U.S. policymakers do not often state explicitly in public the goal of preventing the emergence of regional hegemons in Eurasia, U.S. military operations in recent decades—both wartime operations and day-to-day operations—appear to have been carried out in no small part in support of this goal.” (“Renewed Great Power Competition: Implications for Defense—Issues for Congress”, US Congress)
https://www.unz.com/mwhitney/the-plan-to-carve-up-russia/
The Plan to Carve Up Russia. I don’t have time to read Whitney’s article but Russia will never allow that to happen. They would nuke us before they would allow that. The neo-cons/libs are insane and have a lot of power. That makes them extremely dangerous.
>>>They would nuke us before they would allow that.
Yes. They would.
It matters not which party controls the 3 branches of criminals.
What matters is:
Who controls the money.
Who controls the media.
Who controls the military.
In that order…and therein lies the key to saving our Republic. Nothing else will do.
Hussein Obama and Joe Biden are destined for Hell and will live there forever with John McCain and Victoria Nuland
Let us not let the four mentioned above take us with them.
Pass this law —-> when war is declared, ALL the children, grandchildren, nephews, nieces, etc. of those authorizing wars are the FIRST ones drafted and the first to be sent into battle. Also, make all eligible Congress critters subject to the same. And when they come back wounded, stick them in a piece of shit VA hospital …. and forget about them.
That might end America’s Endless Wars.
Well I guess we can dream.
lol You might as well ask them to pass a term limit law and a law requiring them to declare ALL sources of income, like from those savvy husbands/wives that after years of clipping coupons manage to accumulate millions of dollars and properties.
Either of those would stand a better chance of passing than requiring their children into military service. They’d all be at home playing Call of Duty and say it was real combat like AOC has experienced first hand.
Anyone who fights in Government war voluntarily fights for a politician and the prospect of furthering their political and financial objectives. You and your victims are disposable to that end. Same as it ever was.
“War, what is it good for? absolutely nothing!”
I was drafted for Vietnam and did not serve voluntarily; every family member was going to disown me if I refused; I did stupidly stay 10 more years because I had a wife and kids to support during a Recession. Nobody wanted to give their life for the US; those killed lost their lives in a bad bet. I’m patriotic but not completely stupid.
you are a patriot, not a NATIONALIST! kudos.
Thanks, I appreciate that because it’s true, and because even my Dad called me Chicken Shit and my wife threatened to leave me because I opposed the Vietnam War especially as it was being so stupidly conducted militarily and politically. It wouldn’t even have happened if our Oligarchs had not rejected Ho Che Min’s request for help in liberating them from the French. Then he turned to the Chinese Communist who did help. I read all three of Dr Tom Dooley’s books and hated the Communist too. Later I read the War College textbook from just before we got involved and it emphasized the importance for the Navy to keep Asian waterways open, to keep Asian Dominoes from falling, and that Indochina probably had rich oil reserves. Some fellow Officers called me a Commie because I didn’t want to slaughter the Commie Gooks; they would cheer when we watched gun camera movies of even civilians being napalmed. The Ukraine War is just as stupid but this time our Oligarchs want US to fight the Russians; that’s Super Stupid.
Regarding Vietnam’s drafted dead GIs : “He gave his life for his country” is the Elite’s tired old lie; they took it from him.
Martin should trade in his TRS-80 and get a modern system that can run ChatGPT , if just to correct grammar.
But ‘Socrates’ can only run on a TRS-DOS system.
Martin should toss his TRS-80 and get an modern system that can run ChatGPT…everyone reading his columns will thank him.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-04397-7?error=cookies_not_supported&code=307976a8-b6a3-4fea-99e4-fe3f5772a419
I agree with all the above but TPTB don’t just relish war on foreigners, their deaths and enslavement. They plan to enslave 330 million Americans in the next 18 months with FedNow FedCoins. This is not a joke. On 10Mar22, FJB ordered the Treasury, Fed Reserve, Justice and DHS to prepare a report on the CBDC within 180 days (Sep22). FJB has already ordered Federal Agencies to use FedCoins. The result of the Report is the FedNow Program for Americas which will use only FedCoin, starting in Jul2022 with the financial Companies. Everyone must get a QR code (a 3D square Barcode), all businesses must begin now to plan for the transition to FedCoin , and everyone will receive a FedCoin Card within 18 months. The Vice Chair of FedNow has a 5 minute video explaining this at Cryptogrizz.com: scroll down to a green screen showing binary numbers and click on it. Walmart, Target, Whole Foods, etc, in several stores in California have already installed entry equipment that requires shoppers to display their QR code (using their phone) to get in; your credit card account will automatically be charged at the checkout. FedNow will convert all your wealth (bank accounts, personal property, etc) into FedCoins and you can spend it like a prepaid Debit credit card; all currencies, precious metals and bartering etc will be outlawed. I suspect we will have to have our QR code printed somehow on our hand or forehead in order to buy or sell (ref Rev 13:17). If you spend it all, will TPTB then own your RE property(s)? Will TPTB be able to charge you with some crime and then take all your FedCoins? TPTB have already engineered millions of deaths from the CV-19 Death Shots, have Sabotaged Food & Fuel production, implemented Global Warming Tyranny, stolen the 2020/2022 elections with Vote Fraud and J6 Show trials, Cultural Communism and the destruction of public education and morals, the Federal massive debts, Great Society Welfare and Affirmative Action (Reconstruction II) destructions, etc. They are working to fully implement FedNow within a year and a half (July 2023). Congress has evidently agreed to the FedNow FedCoin Plan. It needs to be stopped .
I can’t find anything that gives a date of July 2023. I doubt they are ready. Maybe sometime in 2024 but not this year.
Yes Mary, I goofed with July 2022 being the go date for us, it is probably planned for Mar 2024. Their Report task was Mar2022, release was about Sep2022 and I added 18 months for us to get FedCoin cards, about Mar2024. I expect people to oppose this and try to create legal roadblocks to slip the 2024 date (for forever). Frankly, I hope at least half our population tries to stop this FedNow for decades using every means possible. The effects of FedNow on our Freedom would be worse than all wars; we would become “slaves” of the Oligarchs.
This recent article mentions it for early adopters….
The FedNowSM Service targeted release has now been narrowed down to May-July 2023, making it even more practical to start executing a real-time payment strategy today.
https://www.alacriti.com/connect-to-fednow-with-our-early-adopter-program/