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Perpetual Tyranny - Endless Wars Are the Enemy of Freedom

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"Of all the enemies to public liberty war is perhaps the most to be dreaded because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies - from these proceed debts and taxes - known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few. No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare" - James Madison.

War is the enemy of freedom.

As long as America's politicians continue to involve us in wars that bankrupt the nation, jeopardize our servicemen and women, increase the chances of terrorism and blowback domestically, and push the nation that much closer to eventual collapse, "we the people" will find ourselves in a perpetual state of tyranny.

It's time for the U.S. government to stop policing the globe.

This latest crisis - America's part in the showdown between Russia and the Ukraine - has conveniently followed on the heels of a long line of other crises, manufactured or otherwise, which have occurred like clockwork in order to keep Americans distracted, deluded, amused, and insulated from the government's steady encroachments on our freedoms.

And so it continues in its Orwellian fashion.

Two years after COVID-19 shifted the world into a state of global authoritarianism, just as the people's tolerance for heavy-handed mandates seems to have finally worn thin, we are being prepped for the next distraction and the next drain on our economy.

Yet policing the globe and waging endless wars abroad isn't making America or the rest of the world any safer - it's certainly not making America great again and it's undeniably digging the U.S. deeper into debt.

Indeed, even if we were to put an end to all of the government's military meddling and bring all of the troops home today it would take decades to pay down the price of these wars and get the government's creditors off our backs.

War has become a huge money-making venture and the U.S. government with its vast military empire is one of its best buyers and sellers.

What most Americans brainwashed into believing that patriotism means supporting the war machine fail to recognize is that these ongoing wars have little to do with keeping the country safe and everything to do with propping up a military industrial complex that continues to dominate, dictate and shape almost every aspect of our lives.

Consider: We are a military culture engaged in continuous warfare. We have been a nation at war for most of our existence. We are a nation that makes a living from killing through defense contracts, weapons manufacturing, and endless wars.

We are also being fed a steady diet of violence through our entertainment, news, and politics.

All of the military equipment featured in blockbuster movies is provided at taxpayer expense in exchange for carefully placed promotional spots.

Back when I was a boy growing up in the 1950s, almost every classic sci fi movie ended with the heroic American military saving the day, whether it was battle tanks in Invaders from Mars (1953), or military roadblocks in Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956).

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