Antiwar

Personally, I believe that the reason why it's hard to find antiwar websites like “Antiwar” or “The American conservative” is because there is money in war, there's money in fear mongering, and there's money in sensationalization. A war is always profitable and every year both private and government owned weapons and defense companies make billions a year creating and selling weapons. If you could make billions from war would you stop? Maybe you would but many people see that amount of money and would do anything to keep it.

Moving onto fear mongering, this is an easy one and anyone with a platform can do it, even me. I could wake up one morning and decide that you know what. How about I make a twitter or a Youtube account dedicated to Russia and Its conflicts and scare everyone into believing that Russia is some boogeyman coming to conquer the west starting with Europe. And with the war in Ukraine and other small provinces in western Asian countries  and the caucasus I would have a pretty strong case. Add some advertisements to my videos or posts and just like that, I am now making money off of instilling fear into people. Americans have always been cautious of Russia so I would be able to make hundreds if not thousands from my content.

Lastly I want to cover sensationalism, this one is done primarily by the news so think Fox, CNN, MSBC, even local news. The news loves to over exaggerate and use shocking language in order to draw viewers in. An example would be when Andrew Wakefield claimed that vaccines caused autism during the year 1998 and this picked up traction with many news stations and many of them made the bold claim that autism was in fact tied to vaccines even though his testing was wrong. So applying this to war coverage, one of the reasons why America went to war with Cuba and the Philippines is because a newspaper claimed that an explosion on a U.S ship was caused by those two countries and everyone ran with it, when it was actually caused by an onboard explosion from a miner; sensationalism is very dangerous and has real world consequences.

It’s important to look past the flashy headlines and emotional speech and observe what is really going on as very rarely will a war be justifiable in the modern day.

https://history.state.gov/milestones/1866-1898/yellow-journalism