Guest Post by Ol’ Remus
The trajectories of history’s bits and pieces seem commonly governed by war, the Great Attractor, converging again and again as if no velocity is escape velocity. It’s said peace is the time between wars when nations rearm and rewrite their battle plans. True that. Just now there’s a “last warning” feel to it all, as if the ref just came on the field and said time’s up, it’s meat-grinder time.
We needn’t waste time looking for the cause of the next war. Like complexity, causes of war don’t exist outside the human mind. If you believe otherwise, get some complexity, put it in a paper bag and show it to me. Same with “causes of war”, a quarter pound will convince me. If war causes peace, we can rightly say peace causes war and let it go at that.
Explaining war by citing those who gain from it is like explaining football by citing cheerleaders and venders of hot dogs. The case to be made smells like what it is, a debate device to fortify rhetoric for other ends.
Causes are preferentially imputed to fit an imagined reality, and don’t often meet even that low standard. Example: Germany and Russia invaded Poland in 1939. France and Britain declared war on Germany. Germany went to war with Russia. When the war ended, Poland was given to Russia. Um, what was the cause again?
Nothing beats war for waste and injustice. We should deflect or delay war where possible, and limit it when it’s not. Survivalists should also prepare as if war were inevitable, if unpredictable. Because it is. Poets and utopians say it isn’t. Thousands of years of war say it is.
So, no more philosophizing for you. Let’s get to the “news you can use” part.
What it comes down to is this: with all sides escalating, look to your resources and make good on deficiencies. Should a military event trigger mobilization, actual shortages combined with DC’s plans for “emergency redistribution” will make life difficult even for the prepared. Should there be military strikes on the US itself, look for draconian martial law
reminiscent of Leningrad seventy-five years ago. History may not repeat itself but—oh wait, yes it does.
Waste and injustice, the byproducts of deadly conflict. I believe it will put an end to the social justice warriors, they will probably be the majority of the casualties, after all it is only fair. Useful idiots no longer!
Hard to survive a conflageration if all you have is safe spaces and empty bromides.
The biggest cause of war is freely available funny money poofed and printed out of thin air and loaned out to all belligerents. Take away the funny money and you take away the biggest weapon ever used to foment war. End the fed……..or send your chirrens out to be cannon fodder. We have a choice.
IS- The history of war is not beholden to fiat, not even remotely. In fact, lust for precious metals has produced a much fatter death toll. In all probability that lust will be the prime motivation in the next.
Who got Ukraine’s pile?
How about Libya’s, where did that fat pile go?
Ending the concept or utilization of fiat, will not even put a dent in mankind’s participation in war, it will just alter the playing pieces .
I still agree wholeheartedly the fed must be removed and some form of honest money implemented.
Oh I understand that. However, for about the last 300 years war has been of the fiat, by the fiat and for the true wealth that the fiat will by. The USA has been in a near perpetual state of war since WWII got started. War is now a lifestyle choice………paid for by fiat.
End the fed and war as a lifestyle choice goes away.
I love Remus…did everyone see the little link at the end?
It regards war powers…we are going to have to turn in our
pots and pans…and so forth. Re Hx? Did everyone loathe gov
to this extent as war talk waxed, or were people enthusiastic?