The Business of Continuous Warfare

Roughly half of the world is engaged in some form of military action right now. The U.S. is NOT highlighted below because the U.S. conducts all of its 134 wars in other countries. The colour of that global operation is money green.

Roles and Responsibilities
1984, George Orwell

"A Party member is expected to have no private emotions and no respites from enthusiasm"

"In our society, those who have the best knowledge of what is happening are also those who are furthest from seeing the world as it is. In general, the greater the understanding, the greater the delusion: the more intelligent, the less sane."

"As for the problem of overproduction, which has been latent in our society since the development of the machine technique, it is solved by the device of continuous warfare, which is also useful in keying up public morale to the necessary pitch. From the point of view of our present rulers, therefore, the only genuine dangers are the splitting-off of a new group of able, under-employed, power-hungry people, and the growth of liberalism and scepticism in their own ranks. The problem, that is to say , is educational."

War is the last resort of leaders anywhere and everywhere who don't want to admit that they have no clue what the fuck they are doing.