RE: Three Tune Tuesday & Tax Day Rant
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In more modern societies, war is an affair as bureaucratic as any other, and so war is perpetuated by the inefficiency of bureaucracy so leviathan that no king can command it to stop. - Kveta Nikolaievna Vamaruchenko, Forever Warrior: Confessions of an International Arms Dealer
The reality of forever wars is even more nightmarish than you describe. The order to assassinate General Qassim Soleimani was drawn up by the O-bomb-a administration, and Trump simply signed off on it because he is far too trusting of the top brass, which he eventually came to regret given that they lied to him constantly. Between chucklefucks like General Milley and Colonel Cringeman, the US military is effectively a rogue entity that only obeys its own commander-in-chief as long as he's willing to adhere to the long-term global destablisation plan that Bush Sr and friends came up with in 1992, because after the collapse of the Soviet Union, no more proxy wars. I should remind you that the USSR only came about in the first place because the international banksters funded the Red Army, which almost no-one knows about because the revolutionary communists completed their takeover of academia back in the 1970s and ever since have been perpetuating the narrative that the CIA is single-handedly responsible for every single socialist government collapsing, which is absolutely laughable given the CIA's track record of failure. That being said, the "intelligence" agencies are the true power centre in the US, so any genuine "president of peace" (I am laughing my arse off at Tulsi Gabbard's simps right now) will not be able to do anything, and considering that most "pacifists" in politics are all gung-ho for waging war at home, this is just the state (pun intended) of things. The RevComs are right when they say "we are not voting our way out of this," and they are not our friends.
"It makes no difference what men think of war," said the judge. "War endures. As well ask men what they think of stone. War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner. That is the way it was and will be. That way and not some other way." - Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian
But obviously the US is responsible for the collapse of any socialist regime ever, because there is no way enlightened socialist leaders could fail to account for the needs of the people. Socialism guarantees freedom and prosperity! Only reactionary late-stage capitalism in the midst of collapse could break the peoples' revolutionary republics!
As the Fallout games remind us, "war never changes." But we don't have to play that game. We don't have to join the chorus of ex post facto justifications for mass murder, demonize peoples because of their rulers, or cheer sending our enslaved to fight theirs.
We don't, but we do need to recognise that we live among people who think that way. Honestly, I think I have more respect for the Judge Holdens of the world than I do for the General Milleys. The former have no shame and are honest about the way they view the world; the latter are so cowardly that they frame their warmongering as protecting peace. The former cannot be reasoned with; the latter are so slimy that they will manipulate all but the most stubborn into agreeing with them. On his payroll is the man who says we should teach the Earth is flat so that artillery can't hit its target.
But Kaja, the Earth is flat! A shirtless man shouted at me on a TikTok video about how I was sheep if I believed science books, so I am totally convinced! After all, if I don't trust the DoD and CIA, obviously I can't trust NASA!
(Hopefully unnecessary sarcasm reminder)
TikTok is the Fake Ass Panda of social media. I refuse to believe it even exists.