If governments didn’t make war, what would they do all day? From Bill Bonner at bonnerprivateresearch.com:
Bill Bonner, reckoning today from Poitou, France…
Laugh…and know.
~ Marcus Valerius Martialis
Every day the war drums beat louder. Asia Times:
US provocatively points new nuke-tipped missile at China
The US has just tested a new type of nuclear-tipped air launch cruise missile, reaffirming the viability of the air-based leg of its nuclear triad against evolving threats from near-peer adversaries China and Russia with profound implications for regional stability and global non-proliferation norms.
This month, The Warzone reported that the US Air Force had conducted nine flight tests of its future nuclear-tipped AGM-181A Long Range Stand Off (LRSO) cruise missile prototypes, including one test with a mock nuclear warhead.
Waning Support
When Europeans were just beginning to discover North America, an intrepid explorer spent time with the tribes along the Hudson Bay of Canada. He reported that one day, the young men of the tribe took their weapons and headed north. He thought they were on a hunting party. For weeks they continued…until the trees had disappeared …and it looked like desolate tundra. Finally, they found what they were looking for – an Eskimo village. The Eskimos were different people – different language, different culture… Wasting no time, the Indians attacked and slaughtered everyone in the village – men, women, children.
I never did talk over with my Father, about when we went belly up in VN, after all that blood and treasure, and I should have. He never brought it up either, but then again, his generation won its war. I missed talking to my Grandfather about such things, he died when I was four. I have talked to my sons and grandsons about war and the reasons behind them. I hope I made a decent impression on them, but you know how it is with youth. War, it seems, is only bitchery and butchery, without any redeeming qualities. We even imported Nazis after WW2, as if we didn’t know how to be horrible already.