War is bad — for everyone

“And here we are, again, flirting with nuclear annihilation —

and Americans, whether they like it or not, are deep into it.”

by Mustang

Not everyone supported the war with Great Britain in 1776.  These were primarily people whose loyalty to the Crown followed ideological and commercial interests.  There is money to be made in wartime, but only the war profiteers are much interested in that kind of business.  People with a long view prefer business stability.  The natural ebb and flow of the business cycle are already bad enough without making matters worse by having a war.

People who had experienced war firsthand did not favor it much, either.  I’m not talking about Washington, Hamilton, or Benedict Arnold.  Those men had something to gain through participating in the great game.  The lowly rifleman had no interest in giving up his life for a cause he probably didn’t understand.  And if that lowly private stepped forward back in his village when the recruiter was demanding volunteers, it was probably to save face among his peers than for some grandiose notion of liberty and freedom for all.

The intelligent citizens opposed the war.  They may have lacked sophistication, but they had an abundance of common sense.  War is the last thing anyone should want to do.  I have little use for men who relish the notion of causing unrelenting tears among parents and widows — or young children who will never again see their fathers (or, in modern times, their mothers).

Therefore, war protestors have existed in the United States since the earliest of times.  During the War of 1812, the federalists opposed the war with Great Britain.  We may see a trend developing: conservatives (businessmen) shun war, while leftists can’t seem to get enough of murdering our own people.  What did the British achieve in World War I other than wiping out an entire generation of young men?  That idiocy resulted in another great war.  And here we are, again, flirting with nuclear annihilation — and Americans, whether they like it or not, are deep into it. 

This is what happens whenever one supports a president (Biden) who supports another president (Zelensky), who chooses war with another country (Russia), and then threatens a third country (China) with atomic warfare.  Is there any question about the likely result of such foolishness?

The largest anti-war demonstrations occurred during the Vietnam fiasco.  Some people derided these protestors as un-American, communists, anarchists, fill in the blank.  I do not doubt that some people were part and partial to all those labels.  But before we condemn them, let’s recall the outcome of the Vietnam War. 

American servicemen won all the battles; Democrats in Congress lost the war.  Those would be the same democrats who took us to war in Vietnam in 1964 — and before that, Korea.  Before that, World War II.  Before that, World War I.  War is part of that now well-established progressive tradition.  So it should come as no surprise that Biden is chomping at the bits to become well-remembered for something other than being a brain-dead racist.

The war protestors are back.  On 19 February, people who opposed the Eastern European war assembled at the National Mall in Washington.  It was the largest antiwar rally in two decades.  On that same day, in my little one-horse town in Florida, 30 to 40 people assembled at the post office to protest Biden’s Ukraine policies.  The assemblage did turn a few heads, but as usual, most people did their business with little care about what Washington decides.  Almost everyone knows that “we the people” is a myth.

In Washington, the protest labeled itself “Rage against the war machine.”  These people have had enough of the nabobs in Washington — taking our children to war where they can be killed or maimed for life.  They are weary of the situation where one nabob takes our children to war, unhesitatingly spending insane amounts of money, only so that a subsequent president can blow a whistle and close down the entire operation — as if the national interest just turned a corner that no one saw coming. 

Playing God is what it is, and none of the nabobs or their children ever go to war themselves.  But those are just the fellows at the top of the pyramid.  There are hundreds (maybe thousands) of others behind the scenes egging the whole thing on — Liz Cheney, for example, who may have invented war industries just so that she could invest in them.  Thar’s gold in them thar hills.

Who else is chomping at the bit?  Choose any news outlet — and all of their various parts.  After all, war correspondents have to have something to do, right?  We recently saw an example of the empathy our government hands out to American parents who suffer the loss of their children … such as Biden snickering at a mother who lost her two sons to fentanyl.  There are only two possible explanations for this horrid behavior.  Either Biden is brain-dead or a bona fide terrible person.

I have no crystal ball to tell me what is going to happen.  I see the number of war protestors increasing, though, and at this point, I see that as a good thing.  A better thing would be that the American people would take their heads out of their butts and start making better choices of presidential candidates and, ultimately, who becomes President of the United States.

Bunk will add this addendum. 

Watch: Vast Expanse Of US Military Hardware Positioned At Polish Port

A Baltic monitoring media outlet has published footage of an enormous amount of American military equipment being prepared to move from the Port of Gdynia in Poland. 

The expanse of military hardware is being described as equipment belonging to the US Army’s 3rd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division. Some Eastern European media reports are claiming that at least a portion of the equipment, which looks multiple football fields in length, are bound for Kiev.

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