What causes wars?

Innately aggressive cultures and governments, megalomania, the desire for power, resources, and empire prompt nations to bully or attack others. Less rational Thucydidean motives such as fear and honor and perceptions of self-interest are not to be discounted either.

But what allows these preemptive or aggressive agendas to reify, to take shape, and to leave tens of thousands, or even millions, dead?  Ignoring this lesson, taught by Trump which Xiden refuses to learn:

Nothing is more dangerous than stronger powers, even inadvertently, sending signals that are interpreted as weakness by weaker powers.

Short answer – I doubt it.

But it is a legitimate question to raise because there are still some patriots serving within the ranks of the FBI who are beyond distraught over the gross politicization of their once proud, respected organization. There is genuine, deep seated hatred for Christopher Wray and his coterie of lackeys.

The final straw for many in the bureau is FBI leadership doing everything in their power to paint honest, law-abiding Trump supporters as nascent “white supremacist” terrorists, the frontline agents are finding no evidence for this whatever.

[Prefatory note by Jack Wheeler. Four questions on lakes: What is the world’s oldest lake? The world’s deepest? The world’s clearest? The world’s largest by freshwater volume?  The answer to all four is: Lake Bailkal in Russian Siberia.  My friend of almost four decades, Paul Goble, here focuses on the last question.  Baikal has more water than all of the Great Lakes combined – over 5,600 cubic miles of clear drinkable freshwater.  Putin thinks he can sell it to the Chicoms. Paul discusses the pitfalls.]

Will Putin’s selection of water as “liquid gold,” “the new oil” that it can sell to water-short China recapitulate some of the steps the Communist leaders fatefully took in the years preceding the disintegration of the Soviet Union?

[Note by JW: The 100+ million people of Northeast China are chronically and seriously short of water.  They would be Putin’s prime customers for Russian Siberia water. Or would they prefer to secede and join Russia instead?]

As people in northeastern China grow increasingly dissatisfied with the central government’s neglect of the region’s economic development, authorities are worried that mass protests could soon break out, according to an insider I know personally.  We’ll call him Mr. Lee

The Chinese government is worried that northeastern China will follow Tibet and Xinjiang and seek independence,” Mr. Lee said. “This is one of the biggest concerns that the regime has right now.”

[Note by JW: “Hating Donald Trump in the hater’s eyes makes one moral. But in the real world, such pathological fixations usually result in abject immorality and moral decline, as the hater becomes far worse than what he hates.” This is VDH at the top of his game. Enjoy.]

Over the last five years, the pathology of Trump Derangement Syndrome has been widely described. It was more than a chronic disease – it was an array of rapidly advancing symptoms of deterioration in reasoning, emotional stability, and personal ethics.

Often, the deranged Trump hater found in his odium a cover for all sorts of prior personal intemperance and careerist dissipation. Loudly hating Trump became a passport for excess, private and public, and a sort of preemptive insurance that excused or rather greenlighted smears, slander, and personal misdeeds.

The Coronavirus of 2019, popularly though erroneously called Covid, first impacted us as an acute societal stress then became chronic in nature.  Though not alluded to as such in government-speak, the public was drafted into a “War on Covid”.

This description of the “War on Covid” causing societal stress though is incomplete.  What has actually been inflicted on Americans and much of the world has been psychological warfare, using distorted statistics, diagnostic manipulations and medical historical amnesia as cover in pursuit of government’s agenda namely, further societal control.

The use of Coronavirus in this way is essentially mental abuse and should be considered a crime against humanity.