By: Gary D. Barnett
“A central problem with the idea that wars are needed to combat evil is that there is nothing more evil than war. War causes more suffering and death than anything war can be used to combat.”
~ David Swanson, War Is A Lie
The first matter of great importance and honest understanding is that there is no such thing as a ‘defensive’ war. What should follow then, is that no war can ever be against evil, given that war is the epitome of evil. Actual justified self-defense by any individual or group of individuals, regardless of the size and scope of the mass, is warranted only to quell a threat, but any war waged by states or nations, is a war against all, and therefore not defensive, but offensive aggression against innocents. If national war could ever be accepted as legitimate, then the individual rulers and politicians seeking to wage war would fight only among themselves instead of murdering innocents and using the children of others as fodder for their warmongering and power-seeking efforts.
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Wars are always based on lies and deception. War is born from a political angle, corporate and military industrial complex standpoint, profit-seeking, and power and control aspirations. There is nothing organic about war and those pursuing war. All wars are avoidable; no wars are based on benevolence. There are no heroes or ‘patriots’ in war, wars are never ‘won,’ but always lost where the masses are concerned, and wars are always planned in advance (as well as during and after) and staged in order to achieve nefarious agendas. All wars are heinous and evil because they are done strictly for money, power, and control of people, finance, and geopolitical positioning.
The vile, and immoral depravity of war is achieved by back-door deals among the major players, regardless of the false pretense of good against evil, or the ridiculous ‘enemy’ of the state notion. Since collusion is always present, orchestrated madness is the result. The so-called problems of war, and therefore the so-called ‘advantages’ of war, are intentionally structured to achieve certain outcomes that benefit only the super-rich shadow government, the ruling class and its political pawns, and its banking and corporate heads. A mostly secret hierarchy controls the entire system, which is vastly compartmentalized, so that this secret society of power is always protected and held harmless.
Wars, in large part certainly, have allowed for a massive concentration of wealth in the hands of the tiny few of less than 1% of the population. This is not due to ‘capitalism,’ as some would suggest, because the core of real capitalism is free markets, which do not exist. The U.S., while showing many aspects of socialism and communism, (forget democracies and republics as they are stepping stones to totalitarianism) is actually more a war-mongering fascist state. I think this is without question at this time in history. But that should not be a surprise, as we currently live in a coordinated international fascist system that is bent on becoming the ultimate fascist State; a world run by the very powerful few, who are mostly hidden oligarchs seeking international technocratic rule.
Current sentiment incorrectly chooses to treat the word fascist as merely a “linguistic weapon” meant to be used against any opponent, political or otherwise. This thinking, while convenient for those attempting to marginalize this realistic descriptive term, is incorrect in my view. Fascism rests on the idea of heavily enforceable authoritarian rule, and that is exactly what we now have in this country and around the world. Also, fascism in essence, is the perpetuation of eternal war, and claims the impossibility of any lasting peace. This is the epitome of the U.S. empire.
From the full text by Benito Mussolini and Giovanni Gentile: “The Doctrine of Fascism”
“Fascism, the more it considers and observes the future and the development of humanity quite apart from political considerations of the moment, believes neither in the possibility nor the utility of perpetual peace. It thus repudiates the doctrine of Pacifism — born of a renunciation of the struggle and an act of cowardice in the face of sacrifice. War alone brings up to its highest tension all human energy and puts the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have courage to meet it. All other trials are substitutes, which never really put men into the position where they have to make the great decision — the alternative of life or death….”
“The foundation of Fascism is the conception of the State, its character, its duty, and its aim. Fascism conceives of the State as an absolute, in comparison with which all individuals or groups are relative, only to be conceived of in their relation to the State. The conception of the Liberal State is not that of a directing force, guiding the play and development, both material and spiritual, of a collective body, but merely a force limited to the function of recording results: on the other hand, the Fascist State is itself conscious and has itself a will and a personality — thus it may be called the “ethic” State….”
“…The Fascist State organizes the nation, but leaves a ‘sufficient’ margin of liberty to the individual; the latter is deprived of all useless and possibly harmful freedom, but retains what is essential; the deciding power in this question cannot be the individual, but the State alone….”
The text above is part of The Internet Modern History Sourcebook.
The premeditated and staged insanity of war, all war, including WWI and WWII, is the mainstay of American ideology. The worship of the military and all those who murder on orders is beyond obvious in this country, as anyone with eyes can see. Real ‘patriotism’, which is reliant on standing against the State and its assault on freedom, not supporting it, is completely absent, as reverence for government and the military is rampant even to this day; as in “I love my country, right or wrong.”
The U.S. has been at war, aggressive war and slaughter, for nearly 100% of its existence, and all these wars were pre-planned, and based on enriching the wealthy at the expense of non-existent enemies, while using and endangering the domestic population. All were and are abhorrent ruses, and based on detestable lies. The current Ukraine/Russia ‘war,’ and the fake Middle East ‘war’ involving the U.S., Israel, and Iran, and all other U.S. involvement in ‘war’ and conflict across the world, is pure fabricated deception.
Unabashed support by a weak people of the State or nation, of its enforcement goons in the military, of its actions, regardless of the heinous nature of such actions, lays the entire groundwork for a captured society; more accurately described as an enslaved society. A society that has accepted rule, in this case, fascist rule to be more clear, has abandoned all aspects of individuality in favor of a collective herd of sheep, simply awaiting slaughter. Without the individual, freedom is impossible, and consuming authoritative control is imminent.
Perpetual war means perpetual bondage. All war is planned and structured in order to strengthen only the State, at the deadly expense of the people. We live in a country that lives and breathes constant aggressive war. The insanity of this madness lies at the feet of all those who support and participate in this country’s governing system.
As I have said in the past; To hell with the claimed ruling ‘elite,’ to hell with this heinous government, and any who wish to steal our freedom, our families, and our very lives!
“We are, in other words, a state which controls all forces acting in nature. We control political forces, we control moral forces we control economic forces, therefore we are a full-blown Corporative state. We stand for a new principle in the world, we stand for sheer, categorical, definitive antithesis to the world of democracy, plutocracy, free-masonry, to the world which still abides by the fundamental principles laid down in 1789.” (Mussolini speech before the new Naútional Directory of the Party, April 7, 1926, in Discorsi del 1926, Milano, Alpes, 1927, p. 120).
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