B.C. by Mastroianni and Hart for June 11, 2024

and those who initiated it (hmm so i guess back to the banks anyway)

Truth.

The banks, the military corporations and their owners, and capitalists in general. Death worshippers all.

He must have been reading the history of the Napoleonic war. And all the others.

Winners? Weapons-making companies and their owners. Warring nations can’t throw enough money at them.

…and the politicians.

And the arms manufacturers…

And the arms manufacturers.

Makers of prosthetic limbs?

Germany has just updated its defense plans for a possible attack by Russia. It mentions the possibility of war by 2029.

You can banks on em for that eh.

Yes, and the stock market.

What Eisenhower called the military-industrial complex

Well we proved it wasn’t The North or The South.

No one

And the heads of corporations of all kinds. Nothing changes.

I’m wondering – given the tendency of private equity companies to gradually destroy any enterprise they buy, maybe they could buy into belligerent governments and use their talents for good instead of evil.

Yes, they are all a bunch of bankers

Almost like a great awakening. Good job.

♪♫ "Generals gathered in their masses

Just like witches at black masses

Evil minds that plot destruction

Sorcerer of death’s construction

In the fields, the bodies burning

As the war machine keeps turning

Death and hatred to mankind

Poisoning their brainwashed minds

Oh lord, yeah!

Politicians hide themselves away

They only started the war

Why should they go out to fight?

They leave that role to the poor, yeah…" ♪♫

Unless they are vaporized, of course.

Actually, banks typically suffer badly in real wars. They are the front line of economies, which always suffer badly when we break all the toys. There are industries that profit but most do not; money is spent elsewhere.

It would be no fun to have been a bank that had lots of investment in Dresden in February of 1945.

The winner of World War I was J. P. Morgan. He loaned Britain and France over $500 million. That’s the equivalent of about $12 billion in today’s money. Needless to say he got a little nervous when it looked like his creditors were likely to lose which meant his loan was likely to go up in smoke. No surprise that he used his influence, which was very powerful, to ensure that the US entered the war and saved his wallet.

Actually, I don’t think that there are any real “winners” in a war…

So true.

Survivors

East bank or west bank……both????

Those of us in the middle. Stopped to fill up the car this morning on the way to work at one of the local Hospitals. $2.78 per gallon of unleaded regular.

Ho hum. What’s happened to B.C.? Clichés are not funny. And if you’re going to have a message strip, please go back to the Christian themes that Johnny Hart used to share, even if they were anachronistic. At least they were uplifting. I don’t need more cynicism in my life.

Munitions manufacturers and contractors also.

The East banks and the West banks.

In a war, there are no winners. Only losers.

The arms merchants.

Halliburton. Raytheon, etc. The war machine is a voracious beast.

The wealthy and privileged