VIDEO: When Israel Orders The US To War, Young People Need To Know This Bloody Lesson From History

The My Lai Massacre was not an exception to US military action in Vietnam. War crimes were too often the norm. No lessons have been learned and we will do the same atrocities again.

VIDEO: The US Government Actively Hid This About The Vietnam War

While individual soldiers may think they are fighting a just cause, the US only fights for natural resources, markets and Wall Street profiteering. Forget all the red-white-n-blue blather and BS about freedom and justice. It’s only about corporate profit.

By Mark Taylor
DeMOCKracy (1/23/24)

The story of the My Lai Massacre is one for military-aged Americans to carefully consider as we launch into the third World War. Today’s soldiers will be in similar circumstances as the Vietnam-era soldiers. In many cases, they will be led by the same kind of inept, sociopathic commanders carrying out the orders of yet another completely corrupted, immoral and arrogantly stupid national leadership made up of numb corporate drones in both political parties.

One of the major reasons for the Vietnam War was access to natural resources. The exact same thing is true now with Ukraine and Gaza. While individual soldiers may believe they are fighting a just cause for freedom, the U.S. only fights for natural resources, markets and Wall Street profiteering. Forget all the red-white-n-blue blather and BS about freedom and justice. It’s only about one objective: corporate profit.

Soldiers need to understand it is not only immoral, but a war crime to obey an illegal order; you have a duty to disobey illegal orders. To do otherwise can be a war crime. Young men and women, think carefully before entering the military. Know that it is not what it seems and our wars are all built upon a slush pile of lies..

The biggest Wall Street racket

For a dose of geopolitical reality, read Gen. Smedley D. Butler's excellent book "War is a Racket". If you know of a young person thinking of joining the military as we head off to war, give them a copy. With two Medal of Honors, Butler was the most decorated

Marine of his time and fought in wars around the globe. After all the death and destruction, pain and suffering he witnessed, he concluded that his job as a US soldier was little more than being a hit man for corporations.

As Butler wrote, “A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people. Only a small "inside" group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many. Out of war a few people make huge fortunes.”

Avoid the military

Currently, the War Department — never call it the ‘Defense’ Department — is not meeting recruitment goals. When the call comes from Netanyanhu and the American Israeli Public Affairs PAC, the White House and congress will obediently snap to to send off the first wave of troops. A military draft will soon need to be enacted. Resist the draft when the death toll rises as the Middle East war inevitable accelerates into WW III and — under the lie of patriotism — more bodies will be needed to throw into the meat grinder. They will have to reinstate the draft, dressing it up in red, white n’ blue bull. But remember, the only color they care about is the green of cold hard cash.

Know — and never forget — we are governed by immoral idiots and venal charlatans in both political parties. Stay strong and clear-eyed and don't sacrifice your morality. Resist and speak out. Pass this along to young people, and especially any thinking of enlisting. The video above gives a brutal account of what happens in our wars and to our soldiers: The US Government Hid This About The Vietnam War (Warning* Mature Audiences Only), 17 minutes.

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BRIEF SUMMARY: The My Lai Massacre

The History Channel (10/13/17)

In 1968, Ron Ridenhour, an infantryman in Vietnam, wrote a letter to President Nixon detailing the murder of 500 civillians by the U.S. Army in what would come to be known as the My Lai Massacre.

5- minute video