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"The modern nation-state, in whatever guise, is a dangerous and unmanageable institution, presenting itself on the one hand as a bureaucratic supplier of goods and services, which is always about to, but never actually does, give its clients value for money -- and on the other as a repository of sacred values, which from time to time invites one to lay down one’s life on its behalf. . . . it is like being asked to die for the telephone company."
--Alasdair MacIntyre
American bombs hitting Iran are destroying Chinese oil supplies. When America runs out of munitions, we will realize the US cannot restock weapons without Chinese components.
"Amateurs talk tactics; professionals study logistics.”
-USMC Gen. Robert Barrow
"mRNA injections have killed 470,000–840,000 Americans and functioned as sterilization agents among survivors.
"They destroy over 60% of women’s non-renewable egg supply.
"They reduce pregnancy success by 33%.
"This is NOT accidental — it is a serious national security threat."
Nicolas Hulscher
Until a new one erupts, but so imperfectly.
War seems to demand some response--opinion, analysis, insight--lest it seem that we’re uncaring or detached from events so consequential. But if there is anything we can say with any certainty about war, it’s that nobody outside the inner circle knows anything, and the inner circle’s knowledge is partial, contingent, and prone to the interpretive distortions of group-think.
The other thing we can say with certainty is the primary task of those in charge of the war is perception management, to shape-shift the fog of war into narratives supported by images and statistics that lend an air of factual certainty to something that was as carefully curated as an advert campaign designed to persuade us to buy into whatever story of the war suits those in charge.
Since nobody has a truly comprehensive grasp of what’s going on--and what passes for comprehension has been filtered, either purposefully for perception management, or by the biases ...
