Tuesday, December 29, 2020
Surprisingly evocative question
A surprisingly sharp question on Quora:
If the world's countries are globalizing as it is, will national wars not happen and corporate wars and individual wars happen?
Stirred up some clarifying thoughts. At first it seems like a reasonable proposition.
On closer examination, it turns out there's no such thing as a national war. Some defenses are fought by a nation on behalf of the nation's people, but all wars are started by an individual or a corporation.
Before the nation-state, most wars were blatantly personal, in soap opera style. Jealousies and insults and failed marriages between imbecile aristocrats caused many wars, and the psychopathic need to destroy the universe caused many others. The latter is STILL the primary cause of war.
From 1500 to 1900 most colonial wars were blatantly corporate. The Hudson's Bay Company and the East India Company were the major warmakers "for England", and the United Fruit Company was the major warmaker "for America".
Modern corporate wars are less common and less violent than psychopath wars, but they do still happen. Our relentless not-quite-wars against Cuba and Persia are corporate. We hated Castro because he kicked out the NYC Jewish Mafia. We hate Persia because it competes with the Resnick family in California. Our invasion of Russia in 1991 was driven by Soros's need to short the ruble.
I can't think of any war EVER that was started by a real need to preserve a nation or improve the lives of its people. Every war ends up ruining the aggressor along with the victim. Sane leaders realize this and don't start fights. They gain necessary resources by trade, or in some cases by purchasing territory as we did with Alaska.
Paying for things always works better than stealing things or breaking things.
Labels: Natural law = Sharia law
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