17/4/18

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War is an extension of politics, but with different means, Gen, Carl von Clausewitz once said. Today, however, the situation is a bit different. Today, war is an extension of economics, but with different means.

War has become cynical. It has no political legitimacy any more. It lacks a historical meaning. Now we don't conquer territory, we don't conquer peoples, we don't make Crusades. All we do is pursue profit. Everything boils down to this arrogant economic objective of the "free market", profit. Every bomb, every explosion must generate profit. War is a huge investment that is supposed to bring revenue, economic results, including the blood and death of some people that stand in the way of profit.

Who is to blame? )
halialkers: Alucard with smoking pistol, brunette man with red hat, red cloak, red tie, moving gif (Nova)
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 https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/15/us/politics/obama-as-wartime-president-has-wrestled-with-protecting-nation-and-troops.html


^This kind of vapid fatuous headline is why I despise the media in my country and see it as little more than TASS/RT with better PR. cut for length )

In all of this, that the USA is the greatest destabilizing force is a given. A global empire smeared in the blood of its victims and with the most powerful military machine in human history will by definition be the greatest single force of evil in human history, given that all empires are evil looting and killing machines. Until Syria, the USA was the only state wrecking things and bemoaning the blood and iron and fire of the wreckage it produced, kneeling in the bloodsoaked ashes holding the severed heads of the victims its bombs slay and crying in false sorrow to the heavens how this could be. That is unfortunately not the case anymore. 

Yet the United States lacks the wit, will, or honesty to admit that we like waging war because we're the biggest and most powerful empire in all of history. That we take relish in what our weapons do to our victims. And until we admit that the ashes that we produce are the result of that empire, we will flail and elect more buffoons until one of these jackasses finally busts open the nuclear taboo and ends the world. All empires are evil, but no empire is more dangerous than when it is at least partially aware of the reality of its own decline, and flailing doing foolish things thinking they somehow reverse it when they do nothing of the sort. 

halialkers: Alucard with smoking pistol, brunette man with red hat, red cloak, red tie, moving gif (Nova)
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  http://bigthink.com/endless-innovation/has-america-created-its-own-gulag-archipelago

But worry not, lest the USA allow Russia a monopoly on particular brands of evil and incompetence, the USA has managed to match official Stalinist statistics (which based on explorations of post-USSR archives undercount by anywhere from 35/50% knowingly falsifying original records, so.....) on prisons. cut for length )Because when we betrayed the premise of law and order, to become uncivilized barbarians who tolerate and adore murder and murderers, the sons and daughters of murderers who posed beneath slain mutilated bodies they sent as postcards so all their friends and families could see what squalid inhuman pieces of filth they were, the United States long ago crossed the line proving it is an inferior force beneath the lowest of the civilized countries. No society that tolerated murder and did so for over a century and the first moment opportunity permitted itself undoes its own restraints on this should profess shock that it became what it is now. 

Gulags do not happen out of a vacuum. They are proof of a debased and bestial soul barely shackled under the premises of civilization that casts off its restraint and bays at the moon enjoying the freedom to be what it always was. 

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