Never let an opportunity for government to spend more money go to waste. From David Keen and Ruben Andersson at Project Syndicate via zerohedge.com:
The “war on terror,” the “war on drugs,” and the fight against irregular migration all exhibit a pattern in which politicians and private interests benefit from problems that cannot be solved with the strategies they offer. Instead, the purported threat worsens as politicians, contractors, and enforcers exploit it for their own ends.
In Constantine Cavafy’s poem “Waiting for the Barbarians,” the much-feared barbarians never turn up. “Now, what’s going to happen to us without barbarians?” the poem asks. “Those people were a kind of solution.”
We seem to have become addicted to useful “barbarians.” From terrorists and drug lords to human smugglers and even refugees, our politics increasingly revolves around simplified threats and facile solutions. So, for example, congressional Republicans tell Democrats they will not support more military aid for Ukraine unless something radical is done to stem the flow of migrants and asylum seekers at the United States’ southern border.
Lost in these debates is an appreciation of the larger game that is being played.
The “war on terror,” the “war on drugs,” and the fight against irregular migration all exhibit a pattern that we call “wreckonomics”: a state of functional dysfunction in which the purported threat worsens as politicians, contractors, and enforcers exploit it for their own ends.
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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.”
from “Blood Meridian,” a 1985 novel by American author Cormac McCarthy
Anarcho-Tyranny
Ordo ab Chao (order out of chaos)
As comrade Lenin said, there is great opportunity in chaos and also in WAR.
Great Reset Leaps Forward, hit the light switch and fundamentally transform into Zimbabwe, round up undesirable enemies of the state.
Herr Wolf Adolf Hitler stated that WAR is the engine of all human advancement.
“I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”
Albert Einstein