The Tucker Carlson Show
Ben of Ben & Jerry’s Exposes the Motives Behind War With Russia & the Politicians That Sold Out
05 May 2025
Ben Cohen moved to Vermont in 1977 and co-founded the world’s most liberal ice cream company. You may think you disagree with him on everything. But take a second and hear him out on the Ukraine war. (00:00): Introduction (01:03) The Russia/Ukraine War Is Totally Unnecessary (12:24): Weapons Manufacturers Lobbying Congress (46:00): The Pro-War Propaganda (56:52): Why Is This How Cohen Chooses to Spend His Time? Paid partnerships with: Policygenius: Head to at https://Policygenius.com/Tucker to see how much you could save PureTalk: Go to https://PureTalk.com/Tucker to make the switch Tecovas: Get 10% off at tecovas.com/tucker Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Ben Cohen moved to Vermont in 1977 and co-founded an ice cream company that bears his name, Ben & Jerry's. They made great ice cream. They still do. Ben Cohen became famous for his liberal political activism. The ice cream was great. His political opinions were deeply offensive to most conservatives.
Fast forward to 2022 and Ben Cohen was one of the only liberals in the United States to come out against the war in Ukraine. It seems like a good moment to pause and reconsider whether some of Ben Cohen's views on war are maybe not insane. Maybe they're worth hearing. Here's Ben Cohen. So you brought a book by Smedley Darlington Butler, the most decorated Marine in the world.
One, he's a Marine general. He won two medals of honor. And he wrote a book called War is a Racket. And for some reason, it's not the most famous book ever written in English, but it probably should be. What is that and why did you bring it?
Well, I've been kind of inspired by this quote of his. I think he encapsulates what's been going on in terms of how our military has been used. You know, he's been there, done that.
That's for sure.
And I think about it a lot in terms of, you know, all these refugees, immigrants that are trying to get to the U.S. And why are they trying to get to the U.S.? A lot of times it's because the U.S. at some point in history overthrew or invaded their government or Well, I'll tell you what Smedley says here. Can I quote? Please. So he says, I spent 33 years and four months in active military service.
And during that period, I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for big business, for Wall Street and the bankers. Butler wrote in 1955. Then he goes on, in short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. I helped make Mexico safe for American oil interests. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for national city bank boys to collect revenues.
I helped in the raping of a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. I helped purify Nicaragua for the International Banking House of Brown Brothers in 1902 to 1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for the American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras right for the American fruit companies in 1903.
In China in 1927, I helped set it up so that Standard Oil went on its way unmillested. Looking back on it, I feel I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate in three city districts. We Marines operated on three continents.
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