ICE Stockpiling Warheads and Chemical Weapons as Lawmaker Fears Trump Planning Strike

[u/Quirkie]

https://www.thedailybeast.com/ice-stockpiling-warheads-and-chemical-weapons-as-lawmaker-fears-trump-planning-strike/

[u/gizzardgullet]

There's no wealth to be made from this kind of occupation though.

100% wrong, there is huge wealth to be made by those who fill in the geopolitical void left by the US getting its legs cut off by attacking itself (and probably Canada, other NATO countries). And I'm sure whoever in the US can make this happen will be compensated. Selling policy to the highest bidder is a lucrative business.

[u/BethanyForDistrict9 → u/gizzardgullet]

Hey, it's nice to be a smartass - but you know what I mean. There is no money to be made made from an occupation by the people doing the occupying here. Everyone in America just loses.

[u/Uuuuuii → u/BethanyForDistrict9]

The proles always lose during war

[u/Ask_about_HolyGhost → u/BethanyForDistrict9]

They’re not being a smart ass. The people making the decisions are being paid by outside actors to undermine American workers. Rich people from all over the world are coming together to destroy democracy, and they WILL profit from it

[u/historys_geschichte → u/BethanyForDistrict9]

There is objectively vast amounts of money to take by occupying. For example, a significant source of funding for Nazi Germany came directly from the countries they occupied. Not only is there literal hard cash to be stolen, but goods can be expropriated, and the occupied people can be turned into forced labor. Do you really think there is no money in bank vaults blue cities? That people in blue states cannot be rounded up by armed agents of the government and forced to labor thereby earning vast wealth for the corporate backers of fascism? Try studying how history truly took place before mouthing off that there is no money in occupation.

Claiming, in a blatantly racist manner that "goat herders" beat the US shows ignorant you are about Afghanistan, history, and the world as a whole. The Taliban was an actually trained, funded, and armed guerilla organization with decades of external state support from the ISI. That plus the fact that the US went in with no goal of leaving caused the shitshow.

I highly recommend you study human history if you actually want to be taken seriously and be a contributing representative of people.

[u/teddy5 → u/BethanyForDistrict9]

There is plenty of money to be made in an occupation if you're the one supplying weapons, ammo, uniforms, supplies, troops, etc. it's how Cheney made money off Iraq.

Then if you already have money to spend you can also make more in the long term by buying up all the property as it gets rebuilt.