by Simon Black
In his History of the Peloponnesian War, ancient Greek historian Thucydides told us the tale of a dominant regional power (Sparta) that felt threatened by the rise of a competing power (Athens).
Sparta felt so threatened, in fact, that all the moves they made to keep the Athenian rise in check eventually escalated the power struggle into an all out war.
Modern political scientists call this the Thucydides Trap.
The idea is that when, out of fear, a dominant power takes certain steps to keep its competitor at bay, these actions ultimately lead to war between the two.
There’s a lot of concern that the US and China will fall into the Thucydides Trap.
This is certainly a valid concern. Both are nuclear superpowers with some of the largest militaries in the world.
But in 2016, modern warfare is not about tanks and aircraft carriers anymore. Modern warfare is insurgent, cyber, and financial.
“Starts”? My friend, it’s already started. It just hasn’t been “declared”; and won’t be.
I suppose China could decide not to honor the pact and move towards global governance but have my doubts about it since such actions offer a higher likelihood of loosing power.
This five-way economic war began in earnest back in 2007. The combatants are the US, the EU, Russia, China, and the Arabic Block sometimes misidentified as OPEC. And within each combatant “house” named above, there are numerous clans. And at every level there is a struggle for control between the various clans.
What binds them all together is their unified belief in a global fascist tyranny which -- by its various houses and clans -- owns all people and all assets, all production, and all resources.
They all agree in principle to establish a singular One World Plantation, upon which we shall all live as slaves -- what they war over is only the details of which clan shall own how much of the estate, and who shall be the princes in each house. But they are ALL our enemies.
This is nothing more, and certainly nothing less than the ageless vanity of the powerful, who imagine ruling over the entire world, as Cesars, Kings, and Tzars have done for ages. The difference is that in just this last century, it has actually become possible for a single small group to rule the entire world -- it has been made possible by technology, and the huge ‘global integration’ of banking, manufacturing, and propaganda (communications) which they have brought about since WWII.
And they accept that there must be another great war -- a true “War to End All Wars”, because it is a war which will never cease. It is a war which will polarize the population of the entire globe into a loyalty frozen forever to their design; and which will forever deplete the productivity and the prosperity of all the worlds citizens -- holding them perpetually hostage, forever hung over the lip of the pit of despair.
All except for the elite, of course -- those members of the “Inner Party” as Orwell calls them. For the Inner Party, life will be as it was for the Great Houses of Edwardian England -- for the aristocracy of that age produced nothing but an air of elegance, while they consumed the lions share of everything which was produced upon their estates -- either directly, or by commercialization and trade -- holding the majority of their population in a desperate condition -- so thoroughly bled were the peasantry by the aristocratic class, that they were incapable of providing for themselves even so far as to stave off starvation without their landlord’s consent and blessing.
This is why, from the 1820s until the 1950s, so many Europeans emmigrated to America -- for in our once-great nation was embodied the promise that a man could keep the fruits of his labor, and go about his business without seeking leave of his ‘lord’ to travel further abroad than the privvy house out back, or to undertake any new venture at commerce without first obtaining letters of marquis from a king or duke, for which a high tax would be levied, if even it were granted.
Thus would our new elite divvy up and run the entire world. Thus is their “Order” not new, but as with everything they speak it is in fact the opposite -- being that same old system under which man has already slaved and suffered for millenia.
WE HAVE BEEN WARNED
Lon, as I have stated many times -- islam is Satan’s favored death-cult. He uses it to destroy the Body of Christ -- first by force, to prohibit Christian under threat of death the faith and observance of Christ, and second as a trap to hold succeeding generations in the bondage of worshipping him, the author of all evil.
We shall not physically return to Egypt -- the Spirit of Egypt (the spirit of bondage) shall be visited upon us. For just as Christ proclaimed a New Jerusalem -- which is a spiritual reality abiding in our hearts -so also the physical place of Egypt is no longer requisite for our captivity to the spirit of bondage, which is the same as forgetfulness of God, and of all the deadly sins which attend that forfetfulness- Lust, Wrath, Sloth, Gluttony, and the like…
Look around, and witness how much like Egypt our culture and society have become. The spirit of bondage is all around us, for those who have eyes to see and ears to hear.
WE HAVE BEEN WARNED