Dulce et Decorum Est

They’ve said nuclear war is equally inevitable for 70 years, if a leader is pushed (Israel), if they are mad (NoKo), if they are fanatics (Pakistan), if they are careless (India), expansionary (U.S. and China), or if they collapse (Russia), or if nukes are everywhere (all of the above). Yet here we are, and no one notices. All the arguments are the same, despite generations of proof.

“general bellicosity reinforce the rational of the opposing sides and make it harder to back down without losing face and appearing weak.”

Sure, but we just did back down without the slightest hesitation and either didn’t look weak or didn’t care if we did. And then this opened a dialog as Iran called to negotiate. You could equally argue handing Iran $6B in cash-pallets while they are (by their present admission) over the line in refining Uranium would equally cause a war. We don’t know what will happen, but this is the same model as NoKo. I’d guess that war is more likely to occur where no one is looking than where everyone has war-gamed a thousand plans with supercomputers.

But then, I also think that WWI was not an accident. The British were desperate to stop large young rival Germany from unifying under MacKinder’s “World Island” by joining Germany and Turkey with a heavy railway. This would inevitably add Russia and spin East. They used their influence to create a financial backstop in their allies, the U.S. Federal Reserve, and therefore limitless money and limitless war material, if necessary. They warned in diplo-speak many times. A few months after that railway was completed and their idiot-bully-U.S. backstop was in place, they had their “unforeseen accident,” you know, one that diplomats could have avoided during mobilization at any time if they wanted. They didn’t, and although Britain came off much worse than expected, you can see why they felt it was necessary to risk all or lose to a Pan-German Europe + Asia for a thousand years. They are still running the same plan, first in WWII by “ignoring” or actually helping a Hitler they thought would attack Russia, and now with the Skripals, German-Russian sanctions, and “RussiaRussiaRussia.”

We’re not going to fight Iran, or at least in the way is thought of, because they would kick us back to our hemisphere. Americans always prefer isolationism and it’s hard enough to keep anyone on board even now. While we wouldn’t take much harm in military terms, this isn’t what they want, because the people would crush them from meddling for 50 years, and they don’t want that. D.C. can’t conquer the people, they’ve run the war games always lose thanks to 2A. This is as far as they can get, and probably a bit too far.

“The most likely long-term outcome of a war with Iran would be the economic isolation and political fragmentation of the United States.”

This is the most likely outcome without a war with Iran, so the war makes no difference. Further, by law the U.S. is supposed to be politically fragmented into 50 States, so that both that, and the actual enforcement of law would be a pleasant change of pace. Economic isolation would mean both domestic jobs AND the collapse of the globalist wealth-pump and war intervention, and we’re supposed to have “commercial policy [of] an equal and impartial hand; neither seeking nor granting exclusive favors or preferences…forcing nothing,” in our neutrality, which would be another win for everyone.

In fact, there’s so much good to be had for the American people and the world at large perhaps we should have this war as quickly as possible. I doubt we will, although the end of empire, the monetary reset, and the fracturing multi-polar world will happen. We are going to negotiate an out for Iran despite Israel + Saudi Arabia + possibly their servant MI6/Britain doing everything they can to cause a war as we see daily, and only the most erratic president in the country’s history backing down, consistently calling for peace, and setting matters at the negotiating table. Odd, that.

Pompeo said Washington was building a coalition to patrol the Strait of Hormuz to keep shipping lanes open.

How to avoid a nuclear war …. too big to start fighting
The first countries that should volunteer to be part of the coalition are China, Russia, and Iran.

Hahahahah