Thread by @matthewrafat

One day, when Americans r paying war crime reparations to #Iraq, I want you to remember this 2018 @tferriss interview with @jockowillink, fmr @USNavy officer.

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[Photo is from Iraq & USA's 173rd Airborne Brigade, NOT of #JockoWillink. #USAmilitary]

Screenshots are copied from the ones posted on Jocko Willink's Twitter page. He has yet to respond.

The hilarity of mentioning prisons in the interview will soon become obvious...

#militaryindustrialcomplex

Willink continues defending the military industrial complex. Does he realize General Eisenhower himself is the one who popularized the term as a warning?

You don't have true #freedom if your country & its citizens require debt to survive.

From @nntaleb: "To the ancients, someone in debt was not free, he was in bondage."

Also, re: freedom in USA, "As of July 2019, the United States had the highest number of incarcerated individuals worldwide, with about 2.12 million people in prison."

#prisonindustrialcomplex

Wars r often fought not only to capture another country's resources or to prevent a rival's territorial conquests, but to place defeated country in debt--often in the victor's own currency, thus strengthening liquidity of victor's currency & ability to impose econ conditions.

"What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or in the holy name of liberty or #democracy?" ― Mahatma Gandhi

Cal Fussman: "I turned to the editorial page of a British newspaper. A cartoon depicted a giant Statue of Liberty wearing sunglasses & clutching a bayoneted machine gun towering over tiny Iraqis, who were throwing back stones. There were a lot of ways to feel about that cartoon."

Pinter: The crimes of USA have been systematic, constant, vicious, remorseless, but very few people have actually talked about them. You have to hand it to America. It has exercised a quite clinical manipulation of power worldwide while masquerading as a force for universal good.

Almost forgot about #Afghanistan: There was "'a reasonable basis to believe' that members of the Afghan National Security Forces, the US armed forces & the CIA had committed 'war crimes,' including torture and rape."

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#CIA #USmilitary #warcrimes #ICC #USA

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