We Gotta Stage an Intervention, 'cause America is Addicted to War (bluegrass song)
By Donald A. Smith, PhD. Using my lyrics and Suno.com for the music, I created this bluegrass song about U.S. addiction to war.
Profits are great when blood is spilled. Another contract filled, another million killed. Who's the next enemy du jour? Let's face it, America is addicted to war. We're the policemen of the world, With 800 military base worldwide. Our sphere of influence is the entire globe. Their sphere is their own country, or less if we decide. Lying about war is the norm. The rules-based international order means we make the rules, they follow our orders. Let's face it, America is addicted to war. If we don't like a government, We fund opposition groups, arm militias, Launch coups and covert schemes, Or sanction them til they scream. Surround them with our bases, and with armed client states. And if they fight back, Accuse them of being a terrorist state. If all else fails, send in a proxy army, or bomb them. Who cares if we lose? The point isn't to win the wars. The point is to make profits soar. We prosecute the whistleblowers, Protect the war criminals. We lie about every war. America is addicted to war. Brown University says U.S. wars since 9/11 killed over 4.5 million and cost over 8 trillion. Now we're spending over a trillion dollars per annum. America is addicted to war. We gotta stage an intervention, 'cause America is addicted to war. We gotta stage an intervention, 'cause America is addicted to war. |
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Another version:
Senior U.S. diplomats, journalists, academics and Secretaries of Defense say:
The U.S. provoked Russia in Ukraine
U.S. hypocrisy about the war in Ukraine is absolutely stunning, given that it invaded and bombed countries all over the world (e.g., Iraq) for flimsy reasons, often allying with Muslim extremists (e.g., Afghanistan in 80s, Serbia, Libya, and Syria). The U.S. occupies 1/3 of Syria (the parts with oil), with help from its proxy army, the Syrian Defense Forces. Russia's invasion was along its borders, in response to CIA and NATO meddling in a country with deep historical, linguistic, and cultural ties to Russia. U.S. meddling included "engineering" the 2014 coup, according to Chas. W. Freeman, former U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia and Lifetime Director of the Atlantic Council. The U.S. also armed far-right militias that were attacking Russian speakers in the east. Before the 2022 invasion, the militias increased their bombings. Crimea had voted multiple times for closer ties to Russia. The U.S. exploited divisions in Ukraine between pro-Western and pro-Russian provinces and groups to provoke the war. RAND Corporation recommended arming Ukraine as the best way to "weaken and overextend" Russia and predicted it would result in a war. The New Yorker reported that the CIA and NSA engaged in a broad "effort, around the time of the invasion, to close off many 'sources related to Russia/Ukraine matters.'"
Jack Matlock (former U.S. Ambassador to the USSR under Ronald Reagan) said in a 2024 interview: "Why don’t we understand that trying to remove Ukraine from Russian influence and put military bases there would be, in their case, absolutely unacceptable and worthy of defense?" Matlock said the U.S. backed the 2014 coup, and "Obviously, to any Russian leader, not just Vladimir Putin, that would have been an absolutely impossible, hostile act, which they had to react to. And in particular, they were not going to lose their naval base in Crimea." Finally, Matlock said the Ukrainians are "dominated in their thinking by neo-Nazis — we tend to ignore that, or when Putin points it out, we say he’s lying. He’s not lying."
The U.S. government lies about every war. They're lying, too, about the one in Ukraine.
Other music:
America the Battleful (Oh Beautiful for Endless Wars!)
We are Spending Two Trillion Dollars on Weapons That Must Never Be Used
We Can't Compete with China, So Let's Provoke a War
Thomas Merton's Prayer for Peace
Rock Opera about U.S. Militarism, Part One
The Unholy Land has Genocide
Requiem for Victims of U.S. Wars
Bending Over for Dearest Uncle Sam
Endless War Blues
The Endless War Blues (different version)
Windy City Protests -- from Vietnam in '68 to Gaza in '24
No More Blood For Their Endless War: an antiwar folk song made with AI
Machinery of Death (death metal song)
No More Stupid Wars!
Lesser of Two Evils Blues
The-Lesser of Two Evils Blues (longer, different version)
Eisenhower warns about the Military-Industrial Complex
Eisenhower Warns about U.S. Militarism
War is a Racket (Smedley Butler Song)
America is Addicted to War
End of an Empire
and Love Song by the U.S. Military Gospel Choir.