Communication At Gunpoint

The Exchange of Culture through War

What follows is some meditations and thoughts on a concept not my own, but presented through Tom Kratman in his wonderful Military Sci-fi series Carrera, starting with A Desert Called Peace. Within it he propounds the idea that enemies teach each other their ways and means; that such is a necessary thing of war. For, to defeat a foe by anything except chance, as Sun Tzu says, one must know him. Come to understand him. This must happen, at minimum, within the leadership levels even if the hatred of the enemy turns them into inhuman beasts in the eyes of the ones pulling triggers and pushing buttons.

And, as Kratman shows in the book series, an army must compete with the enemy on the fronts in which they are active within. Obviously Land, Air, and Sea - you must meet them appropriately with the correct forces. You must meet Journo’s and Cosmo’s (their urban elite in the cities of the series) with the correct propaganda. You must have low tech solutions that can’t be hacked against those that out tech you. You must have guerrilla and terror warfare to compete against guerrilla and terror warfare.

If the enemy speaks in violence - it makes no sense to speak to them in tea and crumpets.

Lastly, and I don’t think he spells this out explicitly in his books, or even if he believes it; yet I think he does from following his writings and I certainly do. A society must match its armed forces, and thus as the military changes to wage war upon the enemy any society serious about actually winning the war will, by necessity, also become more like it’s enemy while the enemy becomes more like it.

Historical Example - Cold War USSR

So, for a brief example, let us meditate upon the United States’ long war against commies around the world.

While certainly, there are arguments to be made that we were on a slow path towards communism with the grand old managerial system FDR put in place, overseen by Hoover’s FBI - that was some slow moving gears in the machinery of history. Relatively speaking.

What sped things up was the Cold War. The spies back and forth. The McCarthy trials, as correct as he was, meant we needed more oversight of our people. Just like the Communists. Which meant you couldn’t say certain things, or hold certain opinions. Then, as we infiltrated their ranks with spies, so they did ours and the Catholic Church, US schools, universities, Hollywood, etc - just check out Bella Dodd’s confessional book as an example.

And then take the Frankfurt Marxist schools taking up residence within the US, spreading dissention and moral filth such as was seen within Russia.

So.

I ask you, dear readers.

Are we more like the USSR, with more communist tendencies, oligarchs, state control and oversight - than before the war?

Is Russia more like the US, with our tendencies towards liberalism, equality, fraternity, consumerism, capitalism? Did it meet half way? Was it at any point, and did it turn away from those deliberately at some point?

China

In the same lens, how has China advanced as we have been at odds with each other over the years? And, before some midwit says the war with China just began, or hasn’t started yet, sit down in the back of the class; because my assets, my wages, my jobs, the drugs invading my country for a decade+, and countless other indicators say that China has been waging their Total War on the US for at least twenty years.

We have merely woken up to it after our drunken party in the last two.

Retards that we are.

So, in this war we are just waking up to we have already become more like China. We have a living standard that has fallen to meet theirs. We have social credit systems coming into being - we simply police it differently on our end through Twitter, Facebook, etc. We have people that are starting to be ok living in pods and cramped situations in LA and NYC. Facial recognition software. They data mine our information and sell it.

And, again, look at China. They’re more capitalistic than they have been, and financialized than ever in their history. Certainly not the way we are (Everyone complains they lie about their stats, but LOL look at ours! Learn from the best China bros!), but, again, meeting in the middle. They have values more towards those of Liberalism, but are not anywhere near what we hold.

War on Terror

All I want to meditate on, here, is how much of the War on Terror was taught to us, vs what we taught? The CIA color revolutions, assassinations, bombings, drone wars…

What haven’t we taught people, that we haven’t felt in return?

The answer to that should be chilling to all.

The Future - War with China

If we continue down a war with China, there’s no way to compete besides a complete state controlled industrialization of our economy. Why?

Because they have a state controlled industrialization of their economy, and we must compete on the levels they do.

In addition, if we pursue this war we must excise all Chinese money out of the financial system, and put deadstops on any financial shenanigans that look like they’re from a rogue actor financed by China. Remember Bill Hwang? While Korean, what happened should be a wake up call to what could happen, anytime, all at once, from multiple people, over a few days. You do that, from a country that has invested T-bills it’s going to lose anyways into the project… and, well, there goes the market.

We will be poorer, materially, much like they were before the trade deals - because we offshored all our manufacturing to them, and all our hard first-in-process materials to them. Thus, we’ll be making due with what we have, and be the “repairer nation” for a while because we won’t be able to trust the safety of any goods coming from China nor their allies. Poisoned plastics, medicines, failing car parts, etc.

What will happen with social credit scores, to hold this disunified country together, if it can do so? Because, if we can fight, we must hold together, and have a unified country of some kind.

What will happen with a national religion, such as China’s? Will that be taken up as Wokism more blatently? Transgender eunuchs in robes? Or a throwback to our Christian roots?

Ponder it and other possibilities…

Future War - Russia

A future war with Russia is harder to predict how it will influence us.

I think it would make us more of an Empire, much as they are, in a way a war with China would not. Yes, China has many nations within it’s empire that everyone forgets about; yet with less diversity and breadth of territory than Russia. Less pain of history than Russia has. I think that each of those two greatly mirror our own, and would readily be taken up by the US if it survived and entered into a long term, industrialized war with Russia.

Ironically, I think war with Russia would Christianize us, or maybe paganize us further, as we fight on a spiritual level as well against the state Orthodoxy of Russia. I obviously hope for the former, and think it more likely, as we seek the moral high ground and the majority populace would reject overt paganism.

Like China, war with Russia would leave us poor, for different reasons. The lack of oil reaching our markets, especially that which is necessary for diesel, would be devastating. Natty gas prices for Europe would sky rocket, and either force them to break with us (causing us further poverty immediately) or drive them into depression as we sell it to them (causing us poverty down the road). The inability to access other hard commodities would also hit us hard.

But, unlike China, these types of poverties would likely make us more communally focused. They specifically limit our ability to travel and transport goods across the country, and make it more expensive to import/export. Thus, the localized Empire much like (what I can see) of Russia.

All of this, assuming, of course, that we’re not dumb enough to take on both of them at once. As looks increasingly likely every passing day.

In which case, who knows what kinds of exchanges could occur.

A truly frightful meditation, indeed.