PeacefulWarrior Wrote:Sure, there are those who want war for its own sake - but most of them aren't in direct positions of power which allow them to start one easily.
How do you know this? STS by its very nature seeks power. We have one of the biggest war hawks on her way to the White House. May I remind you that together with Tony Blair, Clinton was one of the most vocal proponents of the war in Iraq and was all too eager to propagate the lies:
I also considered it quite rich of her to trot out a Muslim couple at the DNC who lost their child in the Iraq war, and then somehow blame it all on Trump. That's twilight zone stuff.
PeacefulWarrior Wrote:And those who are in power still have to answer to their own backers.
Who did George Bush answer to? With every war the US has waged, there were anti-war protests by the civilians, to no avail.
PeacefulWarrior Wrote:Even the most autocratic of dictators still has to have an apparatus backing them and tacitly approving of their actions for them to be able to run their country.
Do we live on the same planet?
PeacefulWarrior Wrote:Just look at North Korea. There's no question Kim Jong-Un is a crazy bastard. He probably would start a war if he could. However, NK is also DEEPLY reliant on China for, well, almost everything from electricity to food. If China ever removed their backing of NK, the state would collapse and probably within a matter of weeks. So, Kim still has to dance to China's tune, no matter how bellicose he is. The alternative would effectively be suicide.
Who's tune does the US dance to? The most aggressive country on this planet?
PeacefulWarrior Wrote:More or less, the modern world -as I see it- is evolving to a point where there are simply too many disadvantages to large-scale war for any self-interested person to engage in it, no matter how bellicose they may be. The only exception would be those so utterly fanatical that they would be willing to risk highly probable self-destruction just for the sake of seeing the world burn and, thankfully, such people are few and far between.
I remind you of Mars, Maldek and Atlantis.... earthlings in other words.
The Ra quote you referred to is applicable after harvest.