Who stands the gain the most from large scale war? It's a simple question and one that is always asked when someone is suspected to have been murdered - yet we rarely hear this question asked outside of questions about specific individual leaders or oligarchs. What if there is a larger pattern and the problems apply to entire categories of people internationally? Maybe we should think about and consider it!
While there are bilions of unique individuals on Earth, there are also many repeating patterns that play out over and over again throughout the story. In terms of massive war, only a very few people come out unscathed or even more empowered than before the war took place. From my perspective, benefiting from war is the preserve of the richest people, they don't all plan for it or intend it but it is usually they who stand to gain the most. Specifically, the subset of psychopaths who are hell bent on accumulating power, regardless of the cost to others.
Not only do those with disproportionate power find that they can be in the best position to benefit financially from the destruction and rebuilding that war entails, they also sometimes (often) seek to benefit from far more insidious details of war.
Punching... Up?
The most dangerous aspects of wars are typically carried out by people who fall further towards the bottom of the economic spectrum than the top. Armies are well aware that they have more success finding people willing to die on an order from others among those who lack personal power and freedom enough to enjoy life.
However, what might be less obvious is that the wealthiest in society (including ‘leaders’ of all political persuasions) often benefit hugely from the people in their own hierarchies fighting and dying in war. Of course, the narrative coming from 'the press' and news media will generally portray the wealthiest as either patriotic heroes or neutral characters who wisely stay away from conflict - yet what actually transpires behind the facade is typically quite different.
As long as there are battles to be fought with ‘external enemies’, people who may well be angry and disaffected with the state of their lives and country are easily redirected. Their energy and focus are pulled away from anything that might be posing threats towards internal political change that might affect the prosperity of the leaders. Instead, their energy is now forced towards fighting for whatever cause the leaders dream up and hang alongside a carrot and stick held in front of their face.
Worried about your popularity as leader or running out of ideas to cover up that empty feeling in your soul? No problem, just do backroom deals with other ‘leaders’ around the world to stage a war with their country. Hey presto, limitless fuel for both patriotism and your ego and much greater power to rally people to support you at home.
Venting Rage Through Artificial Paths of Least Resistance
Much like the way that massive funding of team sports events are a deliberate ploy to direct large numbers of people to vent their frustration in a ‘socially acceptable’ way – so too have wars been used in difficult times as an energetic escape valve to redirect intense emotions in a population towards a desired recipient and away from the leaders of the suffering community.
We only need to look at today’s news that over 100 people were killed in violence at a football match in Indonesia to see just how intense some of the unprocessed emotions in populations can become.
So many people sadly killed and injured, just because a sports team lost!? Imagine being a super wealthy ‘leader’ and knowing that your population could explode and turn on you in the blink of an eye. Whether we like to admit it or not, they WILL be considering the risk of this and may well take action to reduce the threat to them personally that they perceive to be coming from their own people.
Those who remain within integrity would never stoop to triggering war in order to redirect aggression away from self and to weaken their own country's population as a way to try to retain power, but the reality is that there are relatively few such ‘leaders’ of integrity at the head of nations today.
While many may stop short of deliberately starting wars for personal gain, the reality is that there will always be a percentage who will do so, brazenly and without remorse. Full of false pride and imaginary justifications that fool the week minded in the population and intimidate many more into guilt and shame at the thought of thinking differently - such people have a well documented history of bringing extreme pain to millions of mostly innocent people.
So who do you think I am talking about in this article, in the context of the war in Ukraine? Am I highlighting Putin as a potential Hitler 2.0? Am I pointing at Biden or Zelensky as something similar or naybe they are just chancers who seek personal aggrandisement?
In truth, I am highlighting that when we dig beneath the surface and once the dust settles, it is common in history to learn that the vast majority of such leaders on all ‘sides’ were essentially treasonous to their own people and precipitated great treachery against those who trusted them.
The real ‘war’ is never between nations, but it is primarily between people who lack balance and who are not yet aware of how to come to peace internally. The national borders are a convenient cover story most of the time for the release of tension that would be released somehow, whether the nations existed or not.
Among such people there are artificial hierarchies and clearly defined dynamics that lead to internal power struggles that promote massive amounts of fear, which then gets suppressed and denied by those involved so as to help them look ‘tough’. All of which leads to a seemingly endless tension that has lasted for so long that people have been born into it for countless multiple generations, know nothing different and call it ‘normal’.
The Internal Battle
Ultimately, the war is between aspects of us internally.
Between the parts of us that seek to keep us alive and the parts that seek to rest.
Between the parts that want revenge and the parts that want to be creative.
Most fundamentally, without us having deliberately healed our inner reality, the war is between our own thoughts and feelings - you notice them sometimes, flickering away in the shadows of our sub and unconscious self. Occasionally, in some people, they surface as violent outbursts in shop car parks at strangers or a punch at a family member that came out of nowhere.
Multiply this pattern across millions of people in a population who are programmed to admire/worship a leader and you have a perpetual flashpoint that can result in total death in any given moment.
As grim as this sounds, the more we understand reality the more we are empowered to create change. The more we learn about our own inner battles, the more we can heal and genuinely meet our own needs. This path is the only one that can result in us genuinely being able to help others and ourselves live long, prosperous and enjoyable lives.
We do not need underground bunkers and billions of ‘dollars’. In reality, we need to be open, free and empowered to feel safe among warm people who care and who have respect for life. The bunker approach will not lead to a long life.
Difficult, perhaps, to advise of such deep truth to those who are fighting for their lives – yet how else will anyone ever transform if the information is never highlighted?
For now, many countless people will have no choice but to fight for their own survival. May we all do what is needed to put an and to the unconscious madness and vandalism of war.
From truth comes strength and liberation.
Wishing you well,
Ura Soul
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