tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4256367009985298221.post3043893811828037873..comments2024-03-23T13:16:37.006-07:00Comments on Hawaiian libertarian: Comparing 1.0 to 2.0Keoni Galthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00842553742723239151noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4256367009985298221.post-585198594808737522011-12-12T20:19:51.423-08:002011-12-12T20:19:51.423-08:00Red nailed it. Our global web of intertwined inter...Red nailed it. Our global web of intertwined interests, economic and cultural, has muted demarcated insulated national zones.<br /><br />I'm using these figures as purely an illustrative example, but if we could say that in 1930 global citizens were separated by 15 degrees of separation from each other, I would say that the number is now 2 or 3 today. <br /><br />A world war necessitates Titans with opposing interests and principles. However, now global economic relationships meld us together into a mass of interdependence which greedily overlooks principles.<br /><br />There will be no more Great Wars. Weaponry and technology have slowly made hand-to-hand combat passe. Bloody Antietam-like battlefields are an anachronism. There will be sporadic pockets of fighting, all relatively insignificant and not deserving of the "World War" label and definitely with different motives than the historic precursors to war in the past. There will be battles, invasions, wars, but quite unlike what we know. <br /><br />China, North Korea, Iran...they can all just sit idly by making lots of noise but not biting because it's possible their Western enemies will slowly dwindle into an economic and cultural stupor. At which point, they can just walk in without a fight.An Unmarried Manhttp://www.phoenixism.netnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4256367009985298221.post-66580296300280022052011-12-12T18:51:52.097-08:002011-12-12T18:51:52.097-08:00I'm almost certain a WW2 size war is coming. L...I'm almost certain a WW2 size war is coming. Look at China. For 100 years they've been aborting babies, mostly female babies, at an obscene rate. The end result of that is a couple generations of men who can't find a mate because there aren't enough women to go around. <br /><br />Over the last 20 years, the farmers have moved into the cities to work in the factories. The factories were built on the old farm lands. Now, the global slow down is closing those factories but the men who are losing their jobs have no where to go.<br /><br />Between the factories and planned cities and the land submerged by the Three Gorges Dam, a goodly chunk of their farmland is under water. One good drought or too much rain or locusts and famine comes to China. <br /><br />They want Taiwan back something awful. They have an ever growing military. <br /><br />So, there could be a few hundred million out of work, hungry and horny China men. Their government would have two choices...wait for them to direct all that pent up rage at them or aim it at somebody else.<br /><br />India isn't in a much different position.<br /><br />And, yes, the official end of our Republic is near. Both sides of the aisle want that.<br /><br />DDDaveDnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4256367009985298221.post-65220405496240895972011-12-12T14:12:55.500-08:002011-12-12T14:12:55.500-08:00How can you have a world war when everyone's o...How can you have a world war when everyone's on the same side? The only real war possible is a 2ed american civil war. And remember progressives were the original authors of total war and they will wage it on american soil.Rednoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4256367009985298221.post-30826499849531984472011-12-12T13:47:55.165-08:002011-12-12T13:47:55.165-08:00War? We're already at war...all over the world...War? We're already at war...all over the world.<br /><br />No, I think the coming cataclysm is gonna be martial law and the end of the Constitutional Republic.<br /><br />That's actually been over for quite awhile now...but the coming changes are gonna make it official. Police State USSA Inc. will become officially recognized and the Government will no longer put up pretenses that we are a "democracy."Keoni Galtnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4256367009985298221.post-67665139795165636962011-12-12T12:54:02.749-08:002011-12-12T12:54:02.749-08:00I think war is coming. The unrest in the Mid East,...I think war is coming. The unrest in the Mid East, the impending collapse of the Euro, and Iran and North Korea getting nukes is going to lead to a Third World War. I'm not an expert, just a worried person.<br /><br />So...bullets and bouillon then?<br /><br />I'm frightened mostly by my sympathy for the Survivalists. We refuse to live on credit and are shrinking in on ourselves as much as possible, making do on one under 6-fig income and praying we make it. That may be a saving grace in the end - being able to make the ends meet with little money. But so many people are overleveraged on their homes and credit cards, and an economic collapse will not mean all debt gets wiped clean.<br /><br />I think you're right, Keoni, that the collapse of welfare will be our greatest domestic concern. I live in an agricultural community, but there are cities and towns with lots of Section-8 housing and EBT types who will not doubt raid my garden or the local orchard and cattle farmer. When I envision the end times, I don't see war in far-off lands, tragic as that is. I see the war in my own yard as people literally poach my chickens and break into my root cellar.<br /><br />I have no tolerance for grasshoppers. Hopefully castle doctrine will be on my side when/if I have to rid myself of intrusive pests.MadBikerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00237159479967846702noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4256367009985298221.post-45369406651930292762011-12-12T12:20:49.620-08:002011-12-12T12:20:49.620-08:00War may not necessarily be the end game - large sc...War may not necessarily be the end game - large scale loss of life without war may be enough to shock us out of whatever it is that locks us into economic stagnation. Fortunately, that is coming in the most painless form possible - the dying off of the largest generation ever born.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com