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posted ago by Hillarys_Ballsack ago by Hillarys_Ballsack +39 / -0

I'm not trying to be alarmist here. Edmund Burke said those who never studied history were doomed to repeat it. Vilfredo Pareto said history is a graveyard of aristocracies.

I'm looking back at the 1920s - the roaring years after the wars around the turn of the century and advent of new technology - and asking myself whether they could have predicted the chaos that resulted after the October Revolution. A pandemic had swept the continent, communism was infecting multiple countries, and a financial depression was emerging. They had machine guns; we have AI and cyber warfare.

Are we living that same situation now, again?

This conflict seems to be in multiple countries against a technocratic globalist elite, who want to sell their countries out to supra-national organisations; a rebellion against the Country Club's plan for an aristocracy that supersedes their national status. Individuals vs collectivism; farms vs cities; nations vs world organisations.

They are not backing down. In fact, they're getting more aggressive and using weapons like disease to claw back control. Our leaders aren't listening, they're appeasing. Not just ignoring ordinary people, but resorting to crime and corruption to seek out ends which are completely against their people.

Bizarrely, it's Marx's prediction, inverted, the ordinary people want nations and the free market, NOT socialism.

It's like a 1776 moment, but across different countries, together. This is happening in the US, Canada, the UK, Australia, Canada, and so on. We're being dragged by an emergent China into an 8th Comintern our leaders get a paycheck for, against their citizenry's consent.

The horrifying question i'm left asking here is: if our leaders stubbornly walk down this route, and democratic methods fail, is there any alternative to revolution?

If we are unable to avoid it, a) how do we minimize the death toll, b) how do we enable cross-cooperation between the pedes in these countries, and c) what will replace the problem we're aggrieved by? More importantly, how do we win, completely?

In the next few years, we are going to see:

  • Another fake president installed (Kamala), prompting a (potential) secession of at least one State
  • China's GDP overtaking the US, the latter of which is now over 150% of GDP in debt
  • The annexing of Taiwan, and (probably) parts of Africa
  • The death of Elizabeth II (who rules 15 countries, including CA, AU, NZ), and (possibly) Scotland seceding from the world's oldest political union
  • A Nationalist leader of France and a (potential) hemorrhaging of a pro-china EU
  • Russia annexing Ukraine, on top of Crimea
  • Iran developing its first nuclear warhead (prompting action by Israel)
  • The world's first trillionaire
  • The collapse of the university system

Imagine it was 1639, 1773, 1785, 1910, or 1936. 1-3 years before any of those wars. You knew it was coming, but by the time it had arrived you'd never imagined it would. What would you need to think about, on what timescale, and what would be your place in it?

What lessons could we learn from those conflicts, and their participants' mistakes?

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a_Fox 9 points ago +9 / -0

Its inevitable. So, What does winning look like? How long might it take to achieve? What do we want.

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DJ_NeckFace 7 points ago +7 / -0

Freedom from government and psychopathic society

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Friendly_B 8 points ago +9 / -1

What would a "win" look like?

All I want is world peace. Let's just toss that out the window as a likelihood.

How do we continue to Make America Great Again, and then help other nations to emulate us?

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BlessingsofLiberty 8 points ago +9 / -1

World peace by means of slavery, tyranny and genocide is not a noble goal. That's the communist endgame. To value peace over freedom is to desire to enslave others to ensure they obey, and that, not "the jews", not the chinese, that simple fact is what has brought us here. I want world freedom. America should not have to be the last bastion of freedom.

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muslimporn 2 points ago +2 / -0

All the journalists and other members of the elite that make our lives a misery being pilled into mass graves would make my day.

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The_red_hat 8 points ago +8 / -0

Your predictions are accurate and well researched . I can’t answer any of the questions unfortunately . Let’s revisit this post in 5 years

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MeloniaisMelons 6 points ago +6 / -0

Always has been

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BluesVFX 6 points ago +6 / -0

We are where we were mentally before WWI for the most part. Military wise we are in unknown territory, we have the weapons and tech but also the softest personnel ever.

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TrumpChampBelt 6 points ago +6 / -0

All of the ingredients are there.

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Skeeter_N_CO 4 points ago +4 / -0

The most we can do at this point is prepare ourselves for the worst. Stock up on supplies, educate yourself, and organize with some like minded friends. The rest is in God's hands.

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ThisIsReality 3 points ago +3 / -0

Semi-automatic crushes bolt-action.

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SnowflakeJuice 1 point ago +2 / -1

This comment is all over the place. Taking a bunch of random facts and mixing them together. Conflating global conflicts with civil wars. . Some wars are a predictable result of consequence others seemingly come out of left field. WW1 seemingly came out of left field. Very few people can give you a concise reason why the war ever happened. WW2 was more predictable.

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Hillarys_Ballsack [S] 1 point ago +1 / -0

Notsomuch. History's clear on why WWI happened - a chain reaction of alliances being invoked as a result of one seemingly innocuous political event, inflaming tensions left over from the previous decades. My point isn't to confuse here, it's a broader one - it's difficult to see the forest when you're looking at the trees.