Angelo M. Codevilla explained, quite eloquently I'd add, what winning a war actually means:
the losers weep and cower, while the winners strut and rejoice. The losers have to change their ways, the winners feel more secure than ever in theirs.
Every war since the dawn of the 20th century has changed our American way of life. Regardless of what the state may (or may not) have accomplished, American citizens lost every single war.
War is worse than a racket. It's the purest form of collectivism, and the greatest con of all.
Here We Go Again
War is just a racket. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of people. Only a small inside group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few at the expense of the masses.
Major General Smedley Butler, USMC (The most highly decorated U.S. Marine in history who was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor twice.)
Former CIA analyst Larry Johnson predicts Donald Trump will again order military attacks against Iran as early as this week. He is not alone in this assessment. A host of geopolitical scholars, former military officers, former intelligence officers and academics are predicting the same thing. I sincerely hope they are wrong, but the massive military buildup in the Persian Gulf by U.S. forces strongly suggests they are right.
One thing is a fact: Iran believes an attack is coming, and they are “cocked-and-locked,” and maybe not locked.
Should Trump again “pull the trigger” and launch another bombing campaign—or even a ground invasion—against Iran, the consequences will be staggering worldwide. As I recently wrote, life as we knew it before February 28 (the day Trump launched Operation Epstein — excuse me, Epic Fury) is gone forever. But another attack will do more than change the world; it will cripple the world for decades to come.
ALL OF IT... circles around globalism, aka the New World Order... Technate... whatever you want to call it...
If you're still playing Red Team vs. Blue Team, you're not paying attention.
"Rat Virus," Masks, Isolation, Lockdown, Global Panic: Fraud and Stupidity All
Race to track “rat ‘virus’ passengers, global effort to stop spread, mandatory quarantine, ‘covid’ flashbacks, and mask-up, are just a few of the incredibly ludicrous headlines floating around today. This asinine attempt to scare the world over a fake ‘virus’ outbreak would be completely comical if it were not so devious. After the ‘covid’ fraud, how could any sane human accept this new nonsense? It is obviously a distractive measure, but even with that knowledge, who in their right mind would believe this insanity.
Yes, I am talking about the newest and most ‘unique’ scare about something mislabeled as ‘hantavirus.’ Anyone who accepts this lie as real is so far lost and mindless as to be little more than a willing and obedient drone of the State. To attempt this type of fraud after the ‘covid’ scam, rests only on the fact that this government and its media mouthpieces actually think that the general population en masse have not enough brain cells left to function, and have erased all knowledge of the past six years. They could be correct, but I sense much less trepidation this time around. Maybe given the gullibility of the collective herd, that is just wishful thinking.
As freedom declines, wealth and prosperity declines too.
Where Have The Men Gone?
The Department of Labor keeps careful track of employment and the demographics thereof. Their latest report on men in the labor force is both mysterious and deeply alarming. It turns out that the labor force is missing about 7 million men who would otherwise be working. Close to a third of working-age men have vanished from the labor force.
The labor force participation rate among “prime age men,” age 25 to 54, in the 1950s approached 100 percent. Now it is 89 percent, meaning roughly 11 percent are not in the labor force (neither working nor looking for work).
Among all men over 16 years of age, the rate is a devastatingly low 66 percent, so about one-third are gone. Among U.S.-born men, nearly 22 percent are gone.
This is really quite shocking.
The trend in decline dates far back, accelerated in the 1960s, stabilized in the 1980s, declined again after the turn of the century, and took a deep dive after the pandemic lockdowns and never recovered. It is falling again now, nearly to the lows we saw when the economy was actually locked down.
While you're busy playing games like "MAP WARS", they're busy constructing your panopticon prison.
How Governments, Corporations, and Technocratic Systems Are Quietly Redefining Ownership in the Twenty-First Century
The modern citizen has been conditioned to believe that private property represents one of the sacred foundations of liberal democracy. Constitutions defend it, political campaigns celebrate it, and economists routinely describe it as the engine of prosperity and social stability. Yet beneath the ceremonial rhetoric lies a more fragile reality — one in which ownership increasingly resembles a conditional administrative privilege rather than an untouchable natural right. This contradiction becomes impossible to ignore when examining the doctrine of eminent domain, the extraordinary legal authority through which governments may confiscate private property without the owner’s consent.
...A growing number of political theorists and economic critics have begun describing this transformation as a form of neo-feudalism — not a literal return to medieval structures, but rather the gradual replacement of independent ownership with conditional access controlled by interconnected institutional authorities. Under such systems, citizens may still possess legal titles, mortgages, or deeds, yet ultimate control over property becomes layered beneath zoning commissions, environmental agencies, taxation systems, redevelopment authorities, financial institutions, insurance corporations, and emergency regulatory powers capable of overriding individual autonomy whenever larger policy objectives demand intervention.
The implications of this shift become even more unsettling when viewed alongside the accelerating digitization of governance. Across the Western world, governments and international organizations have proposed integrating land registries with digital identity systems, smart contracts, environmental compliance monitoring, and AI-assisted administrative oversight...
You will own nothing... But...
Red Team, Blue Team, Go, Go, Go!
2026 - Of Potatoes and Pitchforks
We are stepping into a period where multiple systemic failures are colliding rather than unfolding one at a time and the usual vocabulary of crisis feels inadequate. Overlapping conflicts, tightening energy markets, fraying social contracts, sovereign debt burdens that leave little room for maneuver, and an agricultural sector standing on the edge of a perfect storm. This is not a single emergency to be managed by a single agency. It is a polycrisis, and it is arriving at a moment when the Western world is arguably the least equipped to respond. The institutions that should coordinate the response are hollowed out. The public trust required to ask for shared sacrifice is gone. What remains is a landscape of fractured authority, depleted reserves, and a population that believes the people in charge do not understand the physical world they are supposed to govern.
Even more than the energy crunch reveiving most of the headlines, agriculture and food may end up being the spark that sets the world on fire. Rising fertilizer and energy costs, together with a predicted “Super El Nino” later this year will disrupt harvest cycles across multiple continents. Hunger probably awaits many who have never experienced it before.
This in a situation where the political class has largely burned through whatever credibility it may have (inexplicably) retained. Approval ratings sit near historic lows, and that decay extends across party lines. There is no credible opposition waiting in the wings either. The old political machines have lost their tether to everyday life, operating more as closed ecosystems than as representative bodies. Political parties operate outside or above the communities they are meant to serve, and governance has become an exercise in internal maneuvering rather than problem solving...
It was never about problem solving. The state is about power and power alone.
It looks like it’s coming. Problem is, the statist revolution already happened. Totalitarianism is just the next step.
Globalism Is Totalitarianism
What do all of these stories have in common? They represent a pervasive trend across the West in which governments treat citizens as meaningless pawns in a globalist “New World Order” game.
Citizens across the West overwhelmingly oppose the mass migration of foreigners into their countries. However, Western governments not only ignore the wishes of their citizens but also censor and criminalize their public opposition! Globalist governments cover up illegal alien crimes (including rapes and murders) by hiding crime statistics and shaming citizens for noticing... Western governments are actually aiding and abetting illegal alien criminals! This fact alone should astonish any rational citizen.
Unfortunately, citizens have ever-fewer ways to resist the actions of their governments. Online censorship laws restrict what people can see and say. Governments intimidate citizens into silence by threatening arrest, the confiscation of their assets, or regulatory punishments that make it much more difficult to lead a normal life. Viewpoint discrimination has been rebranded as “fighting hate,” and unsurprisingly, globalist governments increasingly designate opposition to their policies as a form of “hate.” Dissent, in other words, is now a crime.
We are headed down a dangerously totalitarian path this century.
Always remember, you pay taxes to, and take orders from, the Epstein Class.
