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   🌲-alist (threalist@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Nov-2025 08:19:50 JST 🌲-alist
   Does dragging your nation into a foreign war because you were jealous of your cousin's military successes count as "feathering your own nest?" 🤔
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     iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Nov-2025 08:21:32 JST iced depresso

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     @threalist there's always been psycho power plays to get people in to wars. they almost never actually benefit the citizens.
     
     citizenry can just buy things you don't really need the war machine for anything more than ensuring people meet you on relatively equitable terms
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     djsumdog (djsumdog@djsumdog.com)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Nov-2025 09:41:29 JST djsumdog

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     History likes to rewrite wars to be more popular than they often were. No one talks about the benefactors of WWII; American Standard Oil led by Prescot Bush (father of H.W.) who sold petrol to the Germans, Americans and English; Henry Ford who built the railways for the Germans, the royal bank of the Netherlands who profited millions from the war, the Winsor Family, etc. etc.
     
     The "psycho power plays" are incredibly effective on a small but significant part of the population, to start getting the conveyor belt going.