Vengeance served cold is boring and strategically useless

© 2024 Peter Free

 

07 August 2024

 

 

I begin to resign myself . . .

 

. . . to the potentially coming apocalypse of the Northern Hemisphere's own making.

 

It is (arguably) the Darwinian time for the mass of psychotic fools in our midst to eliminate most of us in the name of squelching bad genes.

 

 

Paul Craig Roberts captured the idiotic spirit of our times

 

Abysmally dumbass humans of opposing stripes continue doing their suicidally cooperative dance:

 

 

Israel assassinates a Muslin leader on Iranian territory, and then the media goes into action calling on Iran not to escalate the situation.

 

Iran doesn’t, and from Iran not “escalating the situation” another leader is assassinated. Iran is again called on not to escalate the situation.

 

The reason we are headed to war is that Russia, Iran, and China are provoked time and again, and their response is to wait, and wait, and wait some more while Washington and Israel get prepared, thus reducing the effectiveness of any action taken by Russia, Iran, and China.

 

Iran has now waited so long before responding to Israel’s assassinations that Israel has had time to prepare an underground bunker for Netanyahu and his war party.

 

Iran had a chance to catch them in the open and blew it. Now Iran says it wants to punish Israel but avoid all-out war. No meaningful action will be forthcoming from Iran.

 

Putin waited eight years from 2014 to 2022 before he accepted the obvious fact that he had to act in Donbas. If he had acted in 2014 there would have been no war.

 

Like Russia and Iran China issues endless “warnings.” But as the warnings never are backed by action, no one pays any attention to the warnings.

 

© 2024 Paul Craig Roberts, The Road to War, paulcraigroberts.org (06 August 2024)

 

 

The moral? — At some point . . .

 

. . . belligerent homicidality and cowardice cooperate to produce a form of own-species extinction.

 

I begin to see maniacal Christians' point about encouraging the Second Coming — via blowing up the Middle East and, presumably, most of the Northern else.

 

Stupidity — written as large as this combination has been for decades — becomes terminally nauseating.