A New Dawn. A New Day. A New Way of Life.
This is a year that will not be forgotten. Just like the Trump presidency. Whether you love him or hate him, he will go down in history as one of our most controversial Presidents. I see a dismal problem in our near future — war. If you follow history, there are only really two reasons war is ever endeavored. Reason One: financial gain. Reason Two: pandemics/famine. I say two reasons because it’s simply harder to get people to agree to the declaration of war. But — if you give people a struggle to overcome, war is seen as reasonable. We must admit, if it were not for financial gain, no war would ever be fought. Looking through history, there are always reasons given for war. Such as to bring peace, to stop genocide, to take back stolen land, etc. Here is the problem. EVEN if a nation of people desperately desires to have a war for any of the above reasons, they will not declare unless they can convince banks and investors to lend money for the cause.
Why do I fear war in the height of a pandemic? Wall Street is running out of funds. They need capital to continue to make profits and money for future endeavors. They eat, sleep and breathe money. Right now, they are bleeding money, and they want it back. As a people, we are in no position to do this. We have no buying power; we have no spending power; we literally cannot do much of anything because we are: unemployed, unessential, or under quarantine. This means that when the dust has settled, they will need a growth plan. What’s the fastest way to increase capital? Start a war. It stands within reason that during the next 6–8 months, we are going to start hearing rhetoric that seems tense and frustrating about another country. Catch phrases will be thrown out to ensure that we all understand that this is a bi-partisan concern. This ‘other country’ will be the brunt of jokes. They will be publicly ridiculed for whatever reason we have deemed necessary to ensure that shortly after this pandemic has ended, we will be at war.
This will ensure that enlisted soldiers are not thinking about leaving the armed services as they are able to be held during war times. The pay is better if they re-enlist at this point as they receive a promotion. By doing this, we will ensure that more of the unemployed in America will regain employment and require less capital drain on the government. We will then also require more weapons and ammunition, so we will borrow money from banks to do this. More cash flow. As the money begins to cycle through the system again, Wall Street will settle and regain some of their losses, and then the war will end. This leaves those soldiers in the military for another 2–6 years (or they are medically discharged after being disabled in war). The risk ratio says — this is worth the risk in order to ‘stimulate the economy’. Our lives are decimal dust.
If you need examples of epidemics/famines:
Athens epidemic of 430 BCE followed by changes in government by 410 BCE (preceded by Athens-Spartan War)
Irish Potato Famine — 1845–1847 followed by the Young Ireland Rebellion of 1848 (preceded by Tithe War of 1836)
Great Depression followed by WW2 (preceded by Spanish flu and WW1)
Persian Famine of 1942–1943 (Iran remained neutral in WW2, but the UK and Russia invaded and occupied Iran) (followed by a coup d’etat- 1953- that overturned the democratically elected government of Iran, reinstating Pahlavi as monarch)
Interestingly, all of these famines and pandemics fell on the heels of another war. They fought, got sick, and then fought again. During the process, however, thousands of lives were taken. Thus the ‘strain on society’ was alleviated by both war and pandemic.
What is our takeaway from this? Banks will do what they can to balance human population so as to ensure that they make the most money with the least amount of energy required. This means that you will work to die in war or in a pandemic to make room for the children brought into this world that push past the market’s black line. WW2 vets had Baby Boomers, who fought and died in the thousands in Vietnam and elsewhere. Our lives are calculated.