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When wars turn out to be endlessly insane. Between God, truth & righteousness ..

Boast not thyself of tomorrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth. Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; a stranger, and not thine own lips. ~ Proverbs 27: 1-2

Daniel Greenfield, FrontPageMag: All Wars are Endless Wars: Over 70 days into the Ukraine war, no one knows how it’s going to end. But the one thing that we can be sure of is that it’s going to pick up again where it ends this time around. The war is the latest episode of a nationalist territorial conflict going back centuries. And those don’t go away until the people fighting them do. Progressive theories of history spent the last century predicting that wars were on the way out in a more enlightened age.

Very few of our conflicts are even new. Most are “endless wars” of tribe, race, religion or national identity that have been around for hundreds or even thousands of years. The War on Terror is not a recent phenomenon in response to, as leftists and libertarians allege, the oil industry, Mohammed cartoons, colonialism or miniskirts. It’s just the latest episode in the Islamic conquests that date back over a thousand years.  By the 7th century, the Arab Muslim invaders were fighting what was left of the Eastern Roman Empire.

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DGH: Tragic & true. The Great Experiment that was our republic is being dismantled while the majority of “Americans” are cheering. As mentioned below by Daniel, very few of our conflicts are even new. When wars turn out to be endlessly insane most are “endless wars” of tribe, race, religion or national identity that have been around for hundreds or even thousands of years!

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Daniel Greenfield: By the 8th century, they defeated Chinese forces during the Battle of Talas when the Turkic mercs joined the Muslim side. The wars have started and stopped since then, but they’ve never actually gone away. And it’s unlikely that they ever will. At least not for centuries more. The ‘Führerprinzip’ fallacy assumes that wars are begun by leaders. In Ukraine, it’s tempting to attribute the conflict to Vladimir Putin. And while Putin’s desire for a quick legacy led to the massive overreach and a bloody war, any strong Russian leader would have done the same.

The Russians, like the Chinese and Arab Muslims, want the restoration of an old empire. And they’re not alone. While westerners decided that they wanted to move on to an exciting borderless future defined not by territory, but technology, the rest of the world does not. Western weakness spurred the resumption of tribal conflicts all over the world. The United Nations, international law, the spread of democracy and other western solutions have not only failed to stem the violence, they have actually encouraged it.

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DGH: Yup, the invasive international demoMarxocrat Left is a forever-war machine composed of all the America-haters who got us involved in WW1-WW2; the Korean War; Viet Nam; Kuwait; Iraq; Bosnia; Afghanistan with now Biden prattling in his demented state for yet another “nice little war” to whet his greed for the billions stashed away by all those other guys like Bushes 1 & 2; the Clintons, Obamas, etal.

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Daniel Greenfield: The international house of cards is built on the implausible notion that most countries and peoples don’t really want wars. History, even the most recent history, makes it painfully clear that they do. What does it mean to have a United Nations in a world where most nations have causes and grudges that they want to fight over? Spreading democracy couldn’t fix Iraq because the one thing most Sunnis and Shiites could agree on is that they wanted to kill each other. We live in a world of endless wars. And it’s time that we faced that simple truth.

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The Ukraine war is neither an ending nor a beginning, it’s a continuation. So is Afghanistan where history is repeating itself again. Look closely at the various global conflicts and you’ll see signs of the same cycle reasserting itself despite international law and our nation building. That doesn’t mean that we should get involved or that we shouldn’t. What we should do is discard the old “war for democracy” or “war to end all wars” notions from the world wars. War, like forest fires, tornadoes, human evil, and Barbara Streisand, is not going away.

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DGH: Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is one thing, as great a strategic blunder that it is, but what about the village idiot’s withdrawal from Afghanistan? Things may not be going smoothly exactly, but they’re working out for Russia. They have control of the majority of the NG and oil fields, a portion of Ukraine the size of N. Carolina, and have put the brakes on any exports from Ukraine. 

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Daniel Greenfield: We are not striving to reach the end of history. Nor should we get involved in wars to assert an imaginary international community or equally imaginary law, or right side of history. Nation building is a waste of time, resources, and energy. We can’t build countries. Only they can build themselves and every time we tried, we discovered we had no control over the outcome. Japan and Germany, Iraq and Afghanistan, are what they are because of the choices that their people made, and all our money and efforts would not have changed the outcome one iota.

When we do get involved in the affairs of other nations, we should do so intelligently. Our goals, in that order, should be to protect ourselves, to lend aid to those allies worth supporting, and to help manage global conflicts so that they don’t spill over to us. We should not waste our strength or get involved in every regional quarrel, but when we do get involved, we should do so effectively and decisively. That’s the opposite of Biden’s actions in Ukraine which are heavy on the posturing and light on effectiveness.

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DGH: Obama and Soros had a hand in the overthrow of pro-Russia Ukrainian president, Yanukovych in 2014. Not unlike ours, Ukraine has been in a cold civil war ever since. And then it was Biden after all who publicly spilled the beans to the Council of Foreign Relations (on video) of how tough he had to get with the Ukrainians. The time he bragged that they wouldn’t be getting billions in U.S. loan guarantees unless they dropped their ongoing investigation into Hunter Biden. Sic.

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Daniel Greenfield: In a world forever at war, we must remember that we can never escape it and that we should encounter it carefully. Americans often feel as if we exist outside history. And to a greater degree, more than most nations, we do. But the rest of the world is very much a part of a history that predates us. That history is not going away just because we aren’t aware of it or aren’t paying attention to it.

When wars turn out to be endlessly insane. God denied from school Valedictorian…

9/11 was only a surprise because we were not paying attention to history. Likewise the invasion of Ukraine and China’s expansionism are not recent developments, but historical trends. If America is to survive the pressure cooker of history, we must understand history, and we must decide on what terms to meet the rest of the world and how to manage the fallout of its conflicts. [end]

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DGH: The Russians aren’t fools. They see the aggressive encroachment of the EU and NATO on their borders. Their biggest mistake was waiting too long to invade Ukraine and clear the place out. Ukraine is basically fighting a proxy war for the EU and Obama’s America. The blood of Ukrainians lies squarely on Zelensky, who is a fool, Obama, Soros and the EU globalists. Can you imagine if China was running arms into Mexico and Canada? Perfect examples of when wars turn out to be endlessly insane. OUCH!

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My son, be wise, and make my heart glad, that I may answer him that reproacheth me. A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself; but the simple pass on, and are punished. ~ Proverbs 27: 11-12

•  Daniel Greenfield, FrontPageMag: All Wars are Endless Wars

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Soli Deo Gloria!

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