Another day, another news story about terror. Sounds familiar? That's what news were all about since Iraq until the end of 2016. Many articles were published, some justifying military action by the terror suffered in both America and Europe. Others pointed towards oil. I believe this calls for a quote from Polybius, more precisely from his third book of the Rise of the Roman Empire. "These theories are put forward by those who cannot grasp the distinction - still less its magnitude - between a beginning, a cause, and a pretext, and overlook the fact that the cause comes first in a given chain of events and the beginning last." What he's saying here is that false flag operations have been around pretty much ever since there were wars. It's literally in the book called Rise of the Roman Empire, you can't make this up. Now let's look at what we can find as the cause, pretext and beginning for what is known as the war on terror.
The cause is the debt. The military budget that was supposed to decrease after the cold war ended did not. Increasing defense spending during peace time is hardly sustainable politically and economically. As outlined in the following Ultra-HD video commentary made by a certain Donald Rumsfeld on September 10 2001.
A way of solving this issue would be to enter a state of war that would keep sustaining itself for as long as possible. The way of doing so is oil. When under Saudi or western-backed regimes, proceeds from oil output are exchanged for US treasuries, a process known as the petro-dollar, initially set up by Kissinger. What it essentially means is that the more oil goes through the process, the more sustainable US debt becomes. View it like a line of credit backed by oil reserves. Now Saddam and Gaddafi were not the kind of guys who liked that. So they became the bad guys. OK, we have our cause.
Now the pretext for the war. The Twin Towers went down, so did the Pentagon. That's pretty hard-core. First attack on US soil. You can't let it slide. You have to do something. And that brings us to the beginning of the Iraq war, with a few more pretexts thrown along just to make sure. WMDs, Anthrax, chemical weapons, you name it, Saddam has it. And then it begins. The whole media world begins blasting war pictures over the front page, not once or two, but all week long. Iraq is done? They're just getting started! And it kept going. So much that people began changing. Their views became more conservative, some folks who look like they might be Muslim became ostracized while they had nothing to do with terror attacks. The press mandated the average Joe to become the supreme authority in counter-terrorism. How do you think that went? Young Muslim men living in the West became disenfranchised and had zero opportunities as a result. They became excluded and when you're broke as a result of a publicly broadcast ideology and people hate you for something you have not done, you use the only door left open: radicalization aaaaaaaaaaaaand... terrorism! (rimshot, audience applause).
Congratulations, you now have a completely self-sustained, perpetual war economy. The disenfranchised become the radicalized, then the terrorists. The threat self-perpetuates. The policy justifies itself. Nothing needs to change, defense budgets can increase, the economy can sustain it through added liquidity, everything is great. But then the enemy becomes inter-generational. Nothing the US can't handle, but one hell of a bloody mess for Europeans who as usual end up paying the price of US policy in the Middle-East. That would be a boon to Russia and the Shanghai Cooperative Agreement. They would have no trouble pushing their candidates all over Europe to make it swing towards them. But it ended, and the bloodbath has been avoided. It ended because more oil can be gained in Venezuela than there is left to be gained from the Middle-East.
When the oil majors gain access of Venezuelan oil you can expect ever-increasing military expenditures and associated policies for the rest of your lifetime. For this reason and everything else stated above, please consider gas efficiency when purchasing your vehicle. That alone will do a lot. I'm not saying you should spend 100 grand on a Tesla, but if you want to do more, please consider electric vehicles or public transportation. Maybe a fuel-efficient or a hybrid engine can be a bit more expensive, but consider how much you'll be paying in gas over the years. Maybe you can move closer to work or buy local at the grocery store. Doing so can contribute to a better health as well. Sorry if I'm not the agitated allahu-ackbaring bearded man they like to show. I'm not asking you to cause trouble. All I'm asking is to see how you can save some gas and maybe a few bucks in the process. Great for your wallet and the environment.
