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Mencken’s Forgotten Wisdom on War
by Jim Bovard | Jun 25, 2025
As a stampede of weasels just sought to con America into supporting another Mideast war, it is time remember America’s most underrated critic of bellicose folly. H.L. Mencken is famous for his smackdowns of politicians and ridicule of government and of much of American culture. But he also offered sage advice for citizens judging officialdom itching for carnage.
On May 9, 1939, The Baltimore Sun published Mencken’s essay on “The Art of Selling War.” This piece, included in the Second Mencken Chrestomathy published in 1995, deserves a far higher position in the Mencken and antiwar pantheon.
In words that are painfully relevant for today’s news, Mencken warned, “The fact that all the polls run heavily against American participation in the threatening European war is not to be taken seriously.” Mencken continued:
“Wars are not made by common folks, scratching for livings in the heat of the day, they are made by demagogues infesting palaces…The very unpopularity of war makes people ready to believe, when they suddenly confront it, that it has been thrust upon them…because their own demagogues have been pretending, all the while, to be trying to prevent it.”
https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/menckens-forgotten-wisdom-on-war/
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❗️🇺🇸 US firepower in the Carribbean!
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The US Navy has roughly around 455 TLAM projectiles alone in the Caribbean alone enough for multiple naval strikes against frontal airports of Venezuela.
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Additionally US has deployed around 10-15 F-35 stealth fighter jets capable of easily neutralizing faded out Russian Air Defense Systems.
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The US has also got 2,200 marines capable of staging a limited Naval incursion on key shoreline area's to conducts precision raids.
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Additionally US has also deployed its UAV capabilities to the Carribbean for precision targeted airstrikes.
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There are also indications of a Bomber run from Whiteman AFB, now this could be a "show of force" or we could see bombing campaigns later on in the deep forests near the Maracaibo region after the marines have established coordinates of Drug outposts.
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Simultaneously there is a building up of US forces in Southern Florida which could be further deployed to Puerto Rico.
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US has deployed powerful EW ...
CONSPIRACY THEORIST
The term was invoked to discredit doubters of the Warren Report following JFK's assassination. Here is a direct link to a source document from the CIA claiming the reputation of the US government must be protected by "countering and discrediting the claims of conspiracy theorists."
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