Suppose they Called a War and Nobody Turned Up?
An Essay on World War Next, Nuclear Annihilation, and all that really fun stuff.
The time has come. There has been an upsurge on the internet vectors I am following, of hysterical squawk about the perceived lack of hysterical squawk about the danger of a new world war leading to a nuclear exchange. I will now use my mighty intellect to put this important issue into perspective and maybe a few dozen people will read it.
That nuclear clock has been at a few minutes to midnight since before I learned to tell time. We are told we are just dumb lucky that whatever it is that is supposed to actually happen has not happened yet. Probably we are, and there is a good prospect it could still happen, though I think the risk has actually been declining in recent years.
If an all out nuclear war does happen then we can all say, just before the lights go out for good; sorry, we were nature’s mistake. Let evolution try again. However, I am much more frightened of a more limited nuclear exchange, which messes up the atmosphere just enough to cause a few decades of mass famine.
But a war does not have to go nuclear to create an economic collapse. The globe has become very interconnected and dependant on trade, and a lot of people are going to see their lives, or prospects in life, severely shortened by the severing of supply lines. It would take generations to recover from this.
The only people who really want a war are the small global financial elite who get their wealth from owning things and from issuing the money. It is hard for people to grasp this, but the value of these people’s holdings would increase if the world’s population significantly decreased. We are no use to them; we are a waste of resources.
These are the descendants of the same people who created two world wars and the cold war to gain full control of the planet. They have never quite got there. Their problem always has been that it is very hard to get people to fight each other for them.
It took them thirty years to finally get the first world war rolling. Lately it has been even harder for them. Technological advancement is making the capitalist system obsolete, and making it harder to keep control over the population.
This is why all these small wars, proxy wars, hybrid wars, have been proliferating. The global financialists are struggling harder to remain in control, and they are losing. They were recently forced out of Afghanistan, which should tell antiwar people a lot.
I maintain that the greatest danger of a major war was in 2016, when it looked like the maniac Hilary Clinton was going to come into office in the USA. The defence preparations of China and Russia were not as well advanced. Since then the danger has been declining.
Since then, the relative military power of the Atlanticist hegemony, alias Europe and North America, alias NATO, has been in sharp decline. So have their economies. In a few years they are going to collapse economically and that will be the end of all this.
This is the central fact of the present international situation. The Russians and Chinese, the principle targets, merely have to keep their cool for a few years and the threat to them will dissolve away. Some time after that someone will notice that it is time to put away that nuclear war clock.
Part of this central fact is that, to repeat, it is becoming almost impossible for the global hegemon to start a war. The target countries have been very astute diplomats and geostrategists. They have their enemy very well “checkmated”.
The hegemon may have its own populations brainwashed to think a war would be a good thing, but they do not own the minds of people outside their zone of total control. It cannot fight against its targets without allies. They need a plausible cause of war and their targets will not give them one.
Even the Ukrainians and Taiwanese, the ‘frontline states’, know that the USA is trying to get Russia and China to attack them because it cannot attack their targets close to their own frontiers; it would be defeated, badly. The USA will not be able to protect the frontline states and they would be destroyed. The probable goal of all this would be to give the USA the excuse to start a distant blockade of its targets, well away from their own effective armed forces, but cutting them off from world trade.
Even this would end up harming the USA and its allies more than Russia and China. Europe would freeze in the dark without Russian gas. The US domestic economy depends on trade with East Asia which the Chinese could quickly cut off.
Even if the US oligarchy were able to get some sort of real confrontation going, the mass hypnosis they have their population under is the same as with an individual under a hypnotic trance. It would break the instant a real threat to their personal safety became apparent. A good example of how that would work is the behaviour of the people of Hawai’i when many of them thought the North Koreans had launched a missile at them; mass panic, with people running into the ocean or jumping down manholes.
To conclude, I do not think a nuclear exchange is more likely now than at any other time in the past seventy years, and probably less likely. A kind of limited world war is very possible and it is an interesting mental exercise to game out how that would play out. Future essay.
But what most of the population of the Atlanticist countries are really sleepwalking into is not Armageddon but an economic collapse. I am concerned that no thought or preparation is going into protecting the population of these countries from a collapse of trade and government revenues. I live in one of these countries.
No one is thinking, either, about what kind of political and economic order will emerge after the collapse of the globalist order. That really is sleepwalking into calamity. Future essay.