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RE: A Friendly Message to the Steemit Anarchist Community
It doesn't matter if you don't care about wars elsewhere, they will eventually care about you.
Holing up in a proverbial bunker of isolationism is a sure-fire way to attract belligerence from antagonists or the greedy. It didn't work well for Britain during WW2, or the US.
There will ALWAYS be tyrants willing and capable of raising armies to subjugate and murder their way to expand power, influence and control. If you DO NOT HAVE risk mitigation measures baked into your operating strategy, YOU WILL DIE, ideologically or biologically.
There are soooo many peaceful ways to pursue this. US rampant aggression is not the answer. We could take a queue from Switzerland on this one. In some ways, we're halfway there. It's just that the US likes to be the playground bully.
I'd like to believe what you say about pursuing peace but, I have to agree with @blakemiles84 on this one. What we are seeing are the effects of globalization on, in the main, a tribal culture that is stuck in the 7th century. Many of the isolationist memes presented in this discussion mimic those from the lead up to WWI and WWII. In fact, you could change only a few present day colloquialisms and the arguments would be indistinguishable. Further, if, as you say, the "US rampant aggression", is the problem; Why isn't it called the United States of Planet Earth? I am being serious. If there had been some giant conspiracy designed so the US would run the whole planet it would already be done. We would probably still be arguing over who got what state number.
Narrowing this a bit, and returning to my earlier comment about globalization; One can understand that having your entire identity smashed to bits by a vision of the future that invalidated your belief structure - would cause a backlash against the perceived offender. Our methods for fighting this backlash, thus far, have proved effective on the battlefield - far less so in the ideological arena; Which, unless I am mistaken, is one of the points made in the original article.
Your parting shot; ",,,the US likes to be the playground bully."); can not hold true under an objective observation of the facts. The point here is - just so I am not misunderstood - if that were true we would own all the turf from Pakistan to Turkey.
Cheers.
Why win a wars and take over countries overtly when there's so much profit in waging them and taking over subversively?
I don't say this with any degree of disrespect, but it doesn't seem that either of you are really understanding the significance of the oligarchy, central banks and the whole uber-elite manipulation of international affairs.
Like I said before, just follow the money. There's no real "defence" in these wars. It's just the rich men having the henchmen do their dirty work while they continue banking nicely. All they have to do is recruit or draft more henchmen and they can keep on baking on it...
The worst kind of slavery is one that is defended by slaves who think they're free.