So true. As long as we have scarcity there will always be this lie for profit they call war.

I don't think the people from those regions have the same narrative that we do? I realize it doesn't matter in the long run, as long as those few at the top continue to make war and send young men to die for the sake of those few "fat cats" at the top.

We have been lied to for so long about so many conflicts/pre-emptive strikes/invasions to find out later it was all in the name of the almighty dollar as the root.

It sickens me also but is now the world that "we" the west have created.

When Putin said yesterday "we live in a bubble" and we are all "sick of Americans" I felt him sincere. Don't get me wrong...if America pulled away from every Country it supports there would be mass atrocities globally from the lack of presence. Hell, nations would change hands in very short order.

We certainly do live in "The capitol" and have no knowledge of how it feels to be surrounded by war or your enemies. To have guns pointed at you all day long with nothing but hatred on the other end. Most of us feel relatively safe because of the distance but now all of that will change.

We have to ask ourselves are we ready for a country like NKorea to have the ability to launch nukes at the mainland North Americas? Are we ok with a fully nuclear Iran who has vowed to wipe Israel off the map? Are we also OK with the state of Palestine and its state of suffrage?

What next? I have been told from many Syrian friends that the so called "rebel's" trying to over throw Assad are not even Syrian's? They are "hired" guns... Who hired them? How does anyone know who really used the gas weapons?

Is this more weapons of mass destruction?

Nothing was done in Syria until 800 thousand people were displaced and thousands of lives lost.

The list of documented scandalized war designs throughout history is also repeating itself. We just keep letting them do it over and over again and now they can win our favor with simple use of the media.

I feel like the only way to end war is to end scarcity with movement to a resource base economy like in the words of the late great Jasque Fresco, "This shit has got to go".

I think that will be a long time to come and with the clock now "another minute closer to midnight", a catalyst for such a change may require something drastic that the whole world needs to stop and really look at what they are doing. Like most medicine I am sure it will taste very bad...