Episode · Breaking Points · 2026-06-10

Books mentioned on Platner BLOWOUT WIN, SLAMS Warmongers In Victory Speech

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Emily Jashinsky discussed War Is a Racket by Smedley Butler.

Books mentioned, in the order they came up

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   War Is a Racket

   Smedley Butler · at 20:34

   War Is a Racket is a sharp, compact 1933 critique of military intervention and financial profiteering written by Major General Smedley D.

   Discussed

   “He said in one of our first interviews that his hero is Smedley Butler, who committed far more atrocities than um than uh maybe anybody. Good lord. Like Nicaragua, Honduras, Haiti, like China, Philippines. China, Philip- on and on. Like across the world. Yeah. And then wrote War Is a Racket in the 1930s, which really birthed the a real”

   Emily Jashinsky Platner BLOWOUT WIN, SLAMS Warmongers In Victory Speech 2026-06-10 Listen at 20:34

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