“It doesn’t help that America, which spent the better part of the past two decades engaged in the 9/11 wars, is becoming increasingly isolationist—or at least Americans are. People are exhausted by war. They are understandably disenchanted with the strategic missteps of elites and experts.”
“It doesn’t help that America, which spent the better part of the past two decades engaged in the 9/11 wars, is becoming increasingly isolationist—or at least Americans are. People are exhausted by war. They are understandably disenchanted with the strategic missteps of elites and experts.”
It seems unlikely that the real cause of war is that not enough people want to cause it. And I'm not “disenchanted with … strategic missteps;” I'm disenchanted with the elite class conspiring to get us into other nations’ wars.
Intervention is not how you prevent a world war. As has already happened a couple of notable times in about the last hundred years, it's how somebody else's war BECOMES a world war. When Germany invaded Belgium in 1914, it wasn't our war. Hell, it wasn't even Britain's or France's war. It only became a world war because a bunch of European interventionists with itchy trigger fingers used it as an excuse to fight, and then propagandized the hell out of the US until our leaders joined in.
This article is just fearmongering propaganda by members of the political establishment who have spent much of their adult lives working in the business of war. The establishment loves war. Wars make money, increase government power, and distract the population from how badly the elites are screwing things up domestically. The last big war finally (mostly) ended, and now it's time to whip up public support for an escalation somewhere else.
“Therefore, my Harry,
Be it thy course to busy giddy minds
With foreign quarrels; that action, hence borne out,
“It doesn’t help that America, which spent the better part of the past two decades engaged in the 9/11 wars, is becoming increasingly isolationist—or at least Americans are. People are exhausted by war. They are understandably disenchanted with the strategic missteps of elites and experts.”
It seems unlikely that the real cause of war is that not enough people want to cause it. And I'm not “disenchanted with … strategic missteps;” I'm disenchanted with the elite class conspiring to get us into other nations’ wars.
Intervention is not how you prevent a world war. As has already happened a couple of notable times in about the last hundred years, it's how somebody else's war BECOMES a world war. When Germany invaded Belgium in 1914, it wasn't our war. Hell, it wasn't even Britain's or France's war. It only became a world war because a bunch of European interventionists with itchy trigger fingers used it as an excuse to fight, and then propagandized the hell out of the US until our leaders joined in.
This article is just fearmongering propaganda by members of the political establishment who have spent much of their adult lives working in the business of war. The establishment loves war. Wars make money, increase government power, and distract the population from how badly the elites are screwing things up domestically. The last big war finally (mostly) ended, and now it's time to whip up public support for an escalation somewhere else.
“Therefore, my Harry,
Be it thy course to busy giddy minds
With foreign quarrels; that action, hence borne out,
May waste the memory of the former days.”
—Henry IV, Part 2: Act 4, Scene 3