I would hope there is no such machine. Would it be possible to deprogram a war machine by hoping?
Thoughts?
How does one deprogram a perpetual war machine?
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Gary Childress
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Re: How does one deprogram a perpetual war machine?
You might need an assassination club dedicated to removing anyone making warmongering noises.Gary Childress wrote: ↑Fri Aug 25, 2023 11:20 am I would hope there is no such machine. Would it be possible to deprogram a war machine by hoping?
Thoughts?
But the inudstrial/military complex which is bankrupting the USA right now is highly entrenched, yet paradoxiacally impotent.
It has a might arsenal of weapons it cannot use, and the so-called "deterrent" effect has failed to work repeatedly since the end of WW2.
But the aims of an military / industrial complex is not to destory the enemy - but to produce a Bellum omnium contra omnes in perpetuum.
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Re: How does one deprogram a perpetual war machine?
US isn't bankrupting, that's a Austrian Economics Fallacy. US Currency is constantly in competition to stay a world currency, and the world population is rapidly expanding (by a few billion in some of our lifetimes). The ability/capacity for foreign third parties to want to trade our dollars in transactions is what makes the dollar so valuable.
Problem is, with a rapidly expanding world population, if we had a strong dollar for long, less dollars would be available despite demand, and we would enter into two scenerios.... inability to print or coin currency quick enough and/or deflation.
So we gotta deflate the currency at a rate in proportion to world population growth, corporate need for trades, foreign currency reserves denominated in US dollars, while avoiding overextention (not taking into account foreign currencies such as the Euro).
As a result the US sorta has to do into debt, but not a consistent, always predictable debt. This debt is easier to structure for congressional spending bills of 3-5 years vs legacy entitlements like universal Healthcare, which once instituted can't be downgraded easily- too easy to overextend the debt limit.
The blue dog fiscal conservatives are dead on the left so it's largely a republican party that does the initiation of this. The benefits is it has preserved NATO despite the French and German threat in not giving a fuck about NATO, so the war is in Eastern Ukraine instead of Eastern Germany. That's preferred over trends since the collapse of the Berlin Wall. But Republicans still present it as a case of as if the US ever had to pay most of the debt off (it doesn't- we still have civil war debt and no entity is entitled to that repayment anymore, they are long, long dead) or that the currency is still linked to some tangible asset. It's paid by the attractiveness of the US dollar. What matters isn't what conspiracy theorists in the US believe but corporate conspiracy theorists in Dubai, Hong Kong or London believe. If they see we no longer take the US dollar seriously by socializ8jg everything when they still gotta work, and cease being a influential political and military power like France and England did, the gig pretty much is off. Also when we lose the ability to produce products people want.... we never should of offshore our CPUs and Cars. That's idiotic, we get alot of value returns from these trades when countries spend (return our currency) and we get some of their currency. That was very idiotic, Trump was starting to reverse that.
Problem is, with a rapidly expanding world population, if we had a strong dollar for long, less dollars would be available despite demand, and we would enter into two scenerios.... inability to print or coin currency quick enough and/or deflation.
So we gotta deflate the currency at a rate in proportion to world population growth, corporate need for trades, foreign currency reserves denominated in US dollars, while avoiding overextention (not taking into account foreign currencies such as the Euro).
As a result the US sorta has to do into debt, but not a consistent, always predictable debt. This debt is easier to structure for congressional spending bills of 3-5 years vs legacy entitlements like universal Healthcare, which once instituted can't be downgraded easily- too easy to overextend the debt limit.
The blue dog fiscal conservatives are dead on the left so it's largely a republican party that does the initiation of this. The benefits is it has preserved NATO despite the French and German threat in not giving a fuck about NATO, so the war is in Eastern Ukraine instead of Eastern Germany. That's preferred over trends since the collapse of the Berlin Wall. But Republicans still present it as a case of as if the US ever had to pay most of the debt off (it doesn't- we still have civil war debt and no entity is entitled to that repayment anymore, they are long, long dead) or that the currency is still linked to some tangible asset. It's paid by the attractiveness of the US dollar. What matters isn't what conspiracy theorists in the US believe but corporate conspiracy theorists in Dubai, Hong Kong or London believe. If they see we no longer take the US dollar seriously by socializ8jg everything when they still gotta work, and cease being a influential political and military power like France and England did, the gig pretty much is off. Also when we lose the ability to produce products people want.... we never should of offshore our CPUs and Cars. That's idiotic, we get alot of value returns from these trades when countries spend (return our currency) and we get some of their currency. That was very idiotic, Trump was starting to reverse that.