WHY WAR?
When Hitler initiated a series of blitz attacks on Poland and soon after on the rest of Western Europe, he promised a quick end to the warfare and a smooth, though extremely harsh, occupation and assimilation of these designated less worthy, poorer quality of human populations. But then World War II ensued and, after four unbelievably violent years, it ended with the destruction of Germany, the purgation of Nazis, the restoration of occupied countries, the atom bomb, and, in total, the killing of sixty million people.
With Trump having launched a much more heedless war on Iran, now already spreading across the middle east, with his cabinet of incompetents sucking up to him, his Supreme Court majority ruling over him but half-blind and sparing, his Republican congressional flunkies blinding their eyes and blocking their ears, and a cadre of Project 2025 goons running policy, war has burst upon us with more cruel and more powerful violence than the Nazis, even the inspired tweeters of today, would have lapped up like the viciously hungry dogs they were and are.
Wars have always ultimately ended in the death of every great civilization and left in its wake terrible misery and fermented civilizations ultimately rebuilt on a foundation of revenge and an ever-present base of multiple inequalities and even a taste for murder.
Perhaps war is the inevitable result of the inherent territoriality of our species, with millions of years of proven survivability, that has probably been genetically transcribed down to the present. And with all our concerns for global environment, our peace initiatives, our efforts to extol and spread and maintain democratic politics, we still make wars.
The fear of nuclear annihilation and the apparent approaching death of the planet is the current heritage of all our humanity. War may serve as a massive distraction on the way to ensuring a global demise. War seizes all attention, all human efforts (to win control or to fall victim) but after its fulmination into massive violence, terrible destruction, and mass murder, will humanity survive again, only to renew the wheels of our great war machines and to repair and restore and wait for the next cycle, and the next war.
Or will this one end them all?
