WHAT GOOD ARE WARS AS A SOLUTION WHEN WARS CAN NO LONGER BE WON?
When was the last time a war was cleanly won by western forces? Each war since WWII has created more instability requiring more war. Who profits from these wars being continually waged to no purpose?
When we think of wars well won we have very few candidates to consider. In essence we have only one single primary option: World War Two. World War Two was conclusively won. That war has served those who find war as a solution attractive very well. Each new representative candidate for initiating a war against tends to become, to a greater or lesser degree, a new Hitler. There have been many. Slobodan Milošević, Muammar Gaddafi, Saddam Hussein and now, most recently Vladimir Putin. Those in the wings who may well be subjected to this categorisation before long are Ali Khamenei of Iran and Abdul Malik al-Houthi.
The characterisation of someone as a new Hitler is only used to the maximum when it has been decided to initiate the full regime change procedure of mounting either a sanctions war or a full-on military attack on the targeted leader and his nation. Such personages as Kim Jong Un will receive the full treatment at such a point, as will Ali Khamenei of Iran and Abdul Malik al-Houthi. While only verbal sniping, a partial but not complete sanctions regime and warning attacks as seen in the last week against the Houthis in Yemen don’t merit it just yet.
But apart from World War Two which is meant to be in the back of all western minds when the western powers start to get serious about destroying someone or someone’s nation. This is a handy psychological tool that has an almost mesmeric effect on the subconscious minds of the vast majority. The next war is going to be just as wonderfully winnable as was WWII. But, whatever you do, don’t look back. Don’t check our implication of a great victory to come based on our track record.
Korea, Vietnam and more recently Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya, not to mention Ukraine. “Mission Accomplished” in Iraq, right? Have you heard the admonishments of the Iraqi leadership to the U.S. over recent times to “Get out!”? Afghanistan needs no comment really. You know who runs that country once more, the same people the USA spent twenty years fighting. Libya. How are things going there. It’s not in the news. What does that tell you? Syria? Likewise. The USA spent trillions and shed a lot of blood in some of these countries. For what? For them to be much as they were before, given time.
Yet the USA and its partners in crime, the UK and EU plus one or two others are clearly intent on keeping on keeping on. The solution to war? More war. The solution to failing influence? More war. More wars that won’t be won but will be seen in the West as more reasons to go to war again… and again… and again. ‘Sounds like a solution to you at all? A solution to engender ever more war, yes. Ever more money for military industrial complexes and in turn more money for U.S. politicians to spend on their re-election campaigns. So, from their point of view, what’s the problem?
The problem, obviously, lies with the rest of us not only paying for these profitable wars for our elites but having to watch our hard-earned money be used to kill people, destroy their homes and businesses, fracture their nations and all with no end in sight. If there was ever a vicious circle to end them all this is it.
The western powers, as we see from the historical record, were unable to win wars when the nations were relatively weak and not particularly united one with another. What chance do they have now that a significant number of their targets are extremely well tooled-up with modern techniques of warfare well known and all that hindsight to draw upon on exactly how to defeat those western powers? And they are rapidly connecting with each other to make sure they have strength in unity if the need arises to hit those western powers hard.
The hits mentioned above need not be via a missile, glide bomb or IED. They can be economic and still land a hard blow. As we can see in the Red Sea now. Hamas in Gaza, Hezbollah in Lebanon, the Iranian armed forces, those of Syria and the Houthis have formed ‘The Axis of Resistance’ against the western powers and their proxy in the Middle East, Israel. Will the USA and its pals take them on? They wouldn’t dare. The various treasuries the collective West relied upon in the past and not just those for financial expenditures, but treasuries holding reserves of respect, of weaponry, of manpower… have all been drained away in recent years. Too many wars are being fought for the benefit of too few elites and that incestuous money-go-round is now beginning to slow to a stop.
The world is now too complex and interwoven in its multitudinous relationships for clean and clear victories. The USA, UK and others in the ‘Coalition of the Willing’ have degraded themselves by all the lies told and grandiose results promised and never delivered. The utopia of distributed ‘freedom’ and ‘democracy’ everywhere has turned into the terrifying prospect of a dystopia constantly fuelled by a ‘Forever War’ on automatic pilot with only a tiny coterie of mega-rich elites benefiting.
George Orwell defined the effect of this tiny elite long ago:
“Victory is not possible. The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous.”
And all this within what we are told are the very best systems possible where those two civilisation-saving factors, ‘freedom’ and ‘democracy‘ create ideal conditions without rival.
But rivals there are and they seek agreement, not aggression, thriving relationships, not threats, tolerance for diverse modes of governance, not regime change challenges, and most important of all, win-win solutions rather than war. These are of course the BRICS nations, a rapidly expanding organisation desirous above all of the peace necessary to provide stable trading conditions.
Wars can no longer be won. The solution that will take over from the long, brutal and always tragic history of war down the millennia lies now in the east and across the global south. The brainless and brutal way of the western powers and their endless unwinnable wars, due to the unity, dedication and coordination of the new rising powers, will end it.
