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Ron Paul Understood the Dangers of Neocon Warmongers

Rand Paul understands the broken window fallacy of wartime profits

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Jan 22, 2025
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Empires rise and fall like seasons come and go–just slower. It’s the nature of things. What happens when a government attempts to subvert nature and rather than building up their nation, they try to destroy it? Unless the U.S. changes course, we may be about to find out.

WAR is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. 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

Ron Paul Pragmatics

Ron Paul can boil down complex economic issues into language everyone can understand. Take, for example, his statement in an interview with Anderson Cooper.

“I think the issue of war is so important in principle because it’s such a deadly issue, but it’s also a major economic issue,” Paul told Cooper. “I look at it carefully because all great nations usually go down when they spread themselves too far around the world.”

Paul’s interview on CN…

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