“What does it profit anyone except the very few to whom war means huge profits?”
- Brigadier General Smedley D. Butler, USMC, War is a Racket
In his 1930s book War is a Racket, retired U.S. Marine Corps Brigadier General Smedley Butler argued against the globalists and corporatists of his day and for the return of America’s historic foreign policy of non-interventionism.
Some may suppose from the title of his book that Butler, a 30-year Marine Corps veteran and two-time medal of honor recipient, had turned pacifist. Such was not the case. Butler was not a pacifist. He was a non-interventionist in that he held that war was could justifiably be undertaken only for very limited reasons. In Butler’s view, there were only two reasons Americans should go to war. He wrote:
There are only two reasons you should be asked to give your youngsters. One is defense of our homes. The other is the defense of our Bill of Rights and particularly the right to worship God as we see fit. Every other reason advanced for the murder of young men is a racket, pure and simple (War is a Racket, 67).
Put differently, Butler believed that American soldiers should be sent to battle only in defense of their families, their property, and their Constitutionally guaranteed rights. This is essentially the foreign policy of the founding fathers of America.
Worth noting, too, is that Butler mentioned “young men” in his comments, not young women. Feminism had not advanced so far in his day as to make it a philosophical imperative that young women be sent to the frontlines, a barbaric and astonishingly stupid idea advanced both by the U.S. and now (probably due to U.S. influence) Ukrainian army.
Lux Lucet 
Steve, if this article from the Christian Post (link below) which is not truly conservative in Reformed Theology is accurate on its quotes; and I haven’t looked for the Patriarch’s sermon, the reference to Georgetown University indicates that beyond the Jesuits fully embracing the LGBT community; I’m assuming that Putin is fully aware of the EU and Catholic American seeking world dominion. Besides financial greed and human depravity, as you know, religious ideologies are almost always the driving force to war. As for the Protestant Voice being nearly almost non-existence, Presbyterian David Steele (1807 to 1887) in his Notes on the Apocalypse gives reference to Rev 15:8 as to why there are no true Protestant Trumpets in comparison to the Reformation.
https://www.christianpost.com/news/us-christian-leaders-send-open-letter-to-russian-patriarch-kirill.html
Thanks for sending the link, Tommy. It’s remarkable how much the Jesuits have influenced Protestant thinking in our time. I ran across an example by accident yesterday. The link at the bottom is to an article I found while searching for Just War Theory. The first item that came up was that article. It’s written for the Southern Baptists by a Jesuit educated professor (Georgetown) who is teaching at Georgetown. Amazing. https://erlc.com/resource-library/articles/the-history-and-purpose-of-just-war-doctrine/
Steve, you are right, AMAZING & UNREAL. We have got to be in, or near the height of the Apostasy (2nd Thess 2:1-12) when Baptist folks embrace Jesuits; and allow them to not only twist the Scriptures; but misrepresent ministers of the Old Paths. Putin is undoubtedly of a Pharisaic conservatism; but at least he is saying no to liberalism and the Catholic Agenda of the EU. If I’m not mistaken, 9 of the 11 founders of the EU were Catholic. They are still pushing for a Catholic Empire with modern day Crusades and working for another Inquisition. Luther, Knox, and Calvin had it right. Lord Help! Tommy
That’s a good point that you make about Catholic influence in the EU. In his book Mystery, Babylon the Great, I.A. Sadler goes into the details of the Catholic influence in the formation and expansion of the EU. He even calls the EU “The Fourth Reich,” seeing it as an extension of the Holy Roman Empire and Nazi Germany, which had significant ties to the Vatican.
Aaaand right on queue, the Vatican power play on Russia and Ukraine https://www.breitbart.com/faith/2022/03/16/pope-francis-to-consecrate-russia-and-ukraine-to-the-immaculate-heart-of-mary/
At least some of the comments are rebuking the Mary Worshipping Idolatry. Now if Putin backs down and peace is restored; then more Marianites will be given over to a stronger delusion than they already are. The Almighty’s most damning Judgement is spiritual delusion in conjunction with false doctrine. After the Reformation and spread of knowledge today, there is no excuse for these Marianites to stubbornly continue in this false worship. By all means, I’m no expert on the Russian Orthodox Church; but a brief search shows that they do differ with the Roman Catholic’s on the Immaculate Conception. Here is an interesting topic: https://greekreporter.com/2021/12/14/russia-orthodox-church-catholic-church/
Thanks for sending the article, Tommy. I’m a bit hazy on the details of Orthodoxy. I’m having lunch with a friend who used to be Orthodox. I have some questions for him. As part of their strangling back to Vatican II, I expect Rome will continue to try to absorb the Orthodox churches into herself.