War pays, at least for those in the firepower industry. For everyone else, it is a curse. So far this century, the total cost of the Empire budget is roughly equal to US debt. The Fed must inflate.
Hmmm...Bill says "The US can live by the sword for the foreseeable future..." Not so sure that is true depending upon how one defines the "foreseeable future". The U.S. is rapidly decaying from within and our borders are ridiculously porous. The Barbarians are running amok with the government's blessing. And, a good portion of the rest of the world is fed up with the U.S. hegemony and a gathering storm is a-brewin' I fear. Bill's "foreseeable future" I believe will be an extremely short one.
"a knowable and seeable are different sides perhaps of the same coin."
I'd have to agree with that regarding the party leaderships and the House & Senate congressionally but definitely not with the presidential candidates. No way. Now's no time to get to be too old, Mister. ; )
Everything Mr. Bonner says about the excess and burden of the military goes just as well, if not more so, for the vote-buying welfare system put in place (and in stone, evidently) during the Johnson "Great Society" Administration. At least we get something for the military excess. Best always. PM
Like my dad said, we oughtta go out to Texas, dig Johnson up, and beat him. If they’d have buried Johnson with his ass sticking up, there’d be a trench worn three feet deep from people coming to kick it.
Not only does war pay for some, it has throughout history been the catalyst for resets great and small. So now we are told that we must have a Great Reset, the greatest of all resets and on a scale never imagined. Until now. One senses that the grand plan enacted in 2020 has perhaps lost a good deal of perceived momentum on the part of the perpetrators. What better way to get things moving again, and rapidly, than World War III. Patience has run thin. Enough of this War of Words!
That tells how he went broke. It doesn't tell what happened. We are now at the "suddenly" part; such is obvious. Signs are everywhere. What we don't know (yet) is "what". Best always. PM
When Trump was defeated 4 years ago there was no war. We are now in at least 3 major conflicts so Bill you need to do a little more research this evil group running this country now need to be stopped. Trump and his colleagues some who you were speaking highly about is a good thing.
When Trump was in office he did nothing to stop our war in Syria using Jihadis for regime change there. Plus, he did nothing to stop the coming war in Ukraine. Neither he nor the Europeans insisted on Ukraine complying with the Minsk Agreements which could have prevented the war. In fact, Trump bragged about sending Javelin missiles to Ukraine.
They moved in to protect the people of Eastern Ukraine, plus to prevent US/NATO bases on their borders. Trump could have stopped sending military aid and insisted on the enforcement of the Minsk Agreements.The Minsk Agreements called for a peaceful settlement of the dispute and would have granted some autonomy to the Donbass region. Hollande and Merkel admitted that they signed the agreement only to give Ukraine time to build up their military. Read the Rand Reports on how the US could use Ukraine to weaken Russia. Imagine if China or Russia established bases in Mexico. What would the US do? Remember our generals wanted to go nuclear against the USSR during the Cubin Missile Crisis.
If only. Have you considered that maybe Bill's smallish contribution is to divert and preoccupy the more intelligent among us? That evil group exists and Bill consistently points at anything and everything BUT them.
What happens every time you forcefully eliminate or remove someone from a position of power?
Some other schmuck fills in and resumes duties.
Next leader getting pulled up is crazier than the former.
WWIII Here we come! 😂
In the internal fumes the rise of Mezahu fortifies the elliptical turn crush of machinery drop trench. When the stone turns over, the Beatle dances to the tune of the drum. The ripple effect frontiers the mountain path 16 degrees east of Kappa.
The pendulum swings through the channels of time. The Son of Fred saves us from the midnight train. Lord Trump brings global peace and stability to humanity. President Trump paves the road and glory unfolds. Life on earth once again becomes a prosperous reality and joy encapsulates America.
He will save the spine of America, the middle class, coal miners, mill workers, factory workers, auto industry, medical field, nurses, law enforcement, firefighters, unions, management, private sector, oil industry, import export business, federal employees, farmers, truckers, local, state, and federal level unity, real estate, economy, elderly, social security, Medicare, retirement, disabled, military, education, the tax code, the balance of power, the border, crime rates, homelessness, food industry, transportation, the sick, and that’s just the beginning!!!
If Trump or some other doesn't succeed in making this country
solid fiscally The next or second next generation will be looking at Mcdonald's referring to it as "Jingongmen" Cause they do in china today. "Golden Arches" ....Many Yums.
Don't forget that the actions of our Constitutional Families are the movement required to clear the objectives. The message was clear all along. This is what happens when fantasy meets the truth. If only Stan Lee could grace us with a final cameo from the Marvel Magazines' Superhero narrative. ; )
The new BRICS currency likely based at least nominally on gold will hasten the dollars demise. A lot of this is self-inflicted with endless debt and weaponizing the dollar through sanctions.
Bob, where can I get an appropriate Abacus to calculate the Brics exchange rates for comparison given all proposed participants , including China and Russia who have as much kah kah about their economies , not to mention that pinnacle of democracy - South Africa ..
My left field view is the Brics currency will automatically be compare valued to USD.
Even for a relative novice like me the required Brics Gold backing or suggestion should further affect Gold price even more than deficit spending and the national debts of major countries.
If this is a bit off mark or rambling it’s because ‘ ….. I have been ridden hard and put away wet…’
Interesting thing geo-politics. You get it right Bill that the American firepower industry fight their wars everywhere else but at home. This certainly has a great deal of value for the us in the west. How much value is hard to say but it could even be worth the cost of the debt we have now. Interestingly the Chinese are not aware of this strategy it would seem. They have recently been sailing an armada around Taiwan - rehearsing a blockade and defying the west to come to war with them. The firepower industry leaders would be delighted at this - another very big, very expensive war away from Americas shores is brewing - the profits will be obscene.
Were the Chinese more strategically aware they would have sailed their armada around Haiti. Threatened to invade to bring good governance, and the result would have been a quick quid pro quo, Haiti for Taiwan. Fighting a war that close to Washington would be very risky in terms of positive outcomes for the firepower industry leaders. The profits would not be enough for the risks involved.
The result of the quid pro quo, no bloodshed - no obscene profit. But a better outcome for all without a doubt.
Eisenhower warned us and we didn't take heed. So now, we get to bleed. However, if this leads to WWIII, the least of our worries may be bleeding, as was the case with Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
"— war pays. At least it pays for those in the firepower industry. For everyone else, it is a curse. So far this century, the total cost of the Empire budget is roughly equal to US debt. The Fed must inflate to keep up with it".
But, but Mr. Bonner.
According to the Democratic Party’s presidential pundit - they're not going to change anything AND somehow spend, spend, spend, some more to make everything appear joyouse & even more wonderful...
Now, the question is - doesn't their base of intellectual mid-wits know about facts? As adults with responsibilities and or children, they should, so I wonder what demographic keeps the so-called voter-polls so tightly close. Logically nothing that we hear from the bowels of the Democratic Party including their unlimited budget to saturate multimedia advertisement manipulation capitalization to feed the mindless.
Mostly a levelheaded column by Bonner today - well, for Bill, anyway. Except that he continues to argue that the "defense industry (or contractors, as he puts it)" along with certain politicians continually push for war because they make money off of it. And he rests his case on the simple fact that since there is war, then this must be true. No attempt to differentiate between legitimate reasons to enter into certain conflicts versus others. He lumps them all in the same basket. (And, yes, we've gotten into conflicts we definitely shouldn't have.) While Bill's assertions may seem to be valid simply because there is money to be made by the defense industry, he must do more than just make the point - he needs to explain the details that support his argument. Presenting a list of conflicts is not an argument. And while Americans are getting a little tired (sick, actually) of all the conflicts, there are some that are in our interest and some that are not.
The firms make the weapons but also control think tanks that promulgate military solutions to every problem. Plus they use their economic power to influence our mass media. Ex-generals regularly appear on TV telling us Ukraine or Israel need more military aid or that we must prepare for war with China.
The beggars (Firepower lobbyists); the Congress (the purse string holder and only entity authorized to declare war) and the President (also the CinC, or Commander in Chief)
The CinC has been waging wars without Congressional authorization since 1946.
This compels the Firepower industry to beg the purse string holder (Congress) for money to produce the weapons the CinC's Army-Navy-Air Force need
Congress always puts its re-election interests ahead of the national interests. Every member wears shoes whose heels are round making them all easier to push over
Consequently, the beggars (The Firepower industry) get what they need. The members of Congress get what they want (more money to ensure they will get re-elected) and the current CinC gets to wage another losing war
Hmmm...Bill says "The US can live by the sword for the foreseeable future..." Not so sure that is true depending upon how one defines the "foreseeable future". The U.S. is rapidly decaying from within and our borders are ridiculously porous. The Barbarians are running amok with the government's blessing. And, a good portion of the rest of the world is fed up with the U.S. hegemony and a gathering storm is a-brewin' I fear. Bill's "foreseeable future" I believe will be an extremely short one.
Chill out! I'm getting old too. A knowable and seeable are different are different sides perhaps of the same coin. Probably a roman clipped coin.
Hi Bill,
"a knowable and seeable are different sides perhaps of the same coin."
I'd have to agree with that regarding the party leaderships and the House & Senate congressionally but definitely not with the presidential candidates. No way. Now's no time to get to be too old, Mister. ; )
Everything Mr. Bonner says about the excess and burden of the military goes just as well, if not more so, for the vote-buying welfare system put in place (and in stone, evidently) during the Johnson "Great Society" Administration. At least we get something for the military excess. Best always. PM
Like my dad said, we oughtta go out to Texas, dig Johnson up, and beat him. If they’d have buried Johnson with his ass sticking up, there’d be a trench worn three feet deep from people coming to kick it.
Wilson's too! 💯
……… So funny Sluggo, well put and true. Funny turn of phrase Mate…..
Not only does war pay for some, it has throughout history been the catalyst for resets great and small. So now we are told that we must have a Great Reset, the greatest of all resets and on a scale never imagined. Until now. One senses that the grand plan enacted in 2020 has perhaps lost a good deal of perceived momentum on the part of the perpetrators. What better way to get things moving again, and rapidly, than World War III. Patience has run thin. Enough of this War of Words!
"Gradually, then suddenly."
That tells how he went broke. It doesn't tell what happened. We are now at the "suddenly" part; such is obvious. Signs are everywhere. What we don't know (yet) is "what". Best always. PM
Yes, Paul I'm sure Kamilla the war guerilla will be more than joyful and all cackling to push that big red nuclear button.
Always a pleasure. OD
"suddenly and unexpectedly" !!
FIFY.
Hi C -
Maybe not so unexpectedly this go'round.
Let him who has eyes see, and those with ears hear. What is unavoidably coming now has been telegraphed for at least the last 4 years...
When Trump was defeated 4 years ago there was no war. We are now in at least 3 major conflicts so Bill you need to do a little more research this evil group running this country now need to be stopped. Trump and his colleagues some who you were speaking highly about is a good thing.
When Trump was in office he did nothing to stop our war in Syria using Jihadis for regime change there. Plus, he did nothing to stop the coming war in Ukraine. Neither he nor the Europeans insisted on Ukraine complying with the Minsk Agreements which could have prevented the war. In fact, Trump bragged about sending Javelin missiles to Ukraine.
To deter russian tanks That only moved in after he was out of office.
They moved in to protect the people of Eastern Ukraine, plus to prevent US/NATO bases on their borders. Trump could have stopped sending military aid and insisted on the enforcement of the Minsk Agreements.The Minsk Agreements called for a peaceful settlement of the dispute and would have granted some autonomy to the Donbass region. Hollande and Merkel admitted that they signed the agreement only to give Ukraine time to build up their military. Read the Rand Reports on how the US could use Ukraine to weaken Russia. Imagine if China or Russia established bases in Mexico. What would the US do? Remember our generals wanted to go nuclear against the USSR during the Cubin Missile Crisis.
Yikes, that is a very unsettling thought at the end there, Cartero.
Precisely, Tom. Excellent rebuttal!
Let this be done.
If only. Have you considered that maybe Bill's smallish contribution is to divert and preoccupy the more intelligent among us? That evil group exists and Bill consistently points at anything and everything BUT them.
Hmmmmm...
What happens every time you forcefully eliminate or remove someone from a position of power?
Some other schmuck fills in and resumes duties.
Next leader getting pulled up is crazier than the former.
WWIII Here we come! 😂
In the internal fumes the rise of Mezahu fortifies the elliptical turn crush of machinery drop trench. When the stone turns over, the Beatle dances to the tune of the drum. The ripple effect frontiers the mountain path 16 degrees east of Kappa.
The pendulum swings through the channels of time. The Son of Fred saves us from the midnight train. Lord Trump brings global peace and stability to humanity. President Trump paves the road and glory unfolds. Life on earth once again becomes a prosperous reality and joy encapsulates America.
Trump is not a savoir. Only in ones dreams!
He will save the spine of America, the middle class, coal miners, mill workers, factory workers, auto industry, medical field, nurses, law enforcement, firefighters, unions, management, private sector, oil industry, import export business, federal employees, farmers, truckers, local, state, and federal level unity, real estate, economy, elderly, social security, Medicare, retirement, disabled, military, education, the tax code, the balance of power, the border, crime rates, homelessness, food industry, transportation, the sick, and that’s just the beginning!!!
If Trump or some other doesn't succeed in making this country
solid fiscally The next or second next generation will be looking at Mcdonald's referring to it as "Jingongmen" Cause they do in china today. "Golden Arches" ....Many Yums.
That is a big list. I just hope that You are partially correct . Not for My sake but the USA as a country.
Don't forget that the actions of our Constitutional Families are the movement required to clear the objectives. The message was clear all along. This is what happens when fantasy meets the truth. If only Stan Lee could grace us with a final cameo from the Marvel Magazines' Superhero narrative. ; )
Bill wrote: "Rome itself reveled in a long period of marshal victories" . He means "martial". Best always. PM
Damn. I thought "marital." Certainly no victories there.... If a guy is smart.
LOLOL…220, 221, whatever it takes ;)
... That which precedes "law", I'd imagine.
The new BRICS currency likely based at least nominally on gold will hasten the dollars demise. A lot of this is self-inflicted with endless debt and weaponizing the dollar through sanctions.
Bob, where can I get an appropriate Abacus to calculate the Brics exchange rates for comparison given all proposed participants , including China and Russia who have as much kah kah about their economies , not to mention that pinnacle of democracy - South Africa ..
My left field view is the Brics currency will automatically be compare valued to USD.
Even for a relative novice like me the required Brics Gold backing or suggestion should further affect Gold price even more than deficit spending and the national debts of major countries.
If this is a bit off mark or rambling it’s because ‘ ….. I have been ridden hard and put away wet…’
Brics is just, at the moment more crap.
Enjoyed todays article.
martial. Regards, your iron grammarian....
Remember the song, "Promises, Promises"? I want to write another set of lyrics beginning with "Homonyms, Homonyms"... Best always. PM
Interesting thing geo-politics. You get it right Bill that the American firepower industry fight their wars everywhere else but at home. This certainly has a great deal of value for the us in the west. How much value is hard to say but it could even be worth the cost of the debt we have now. Interestingly the Chinese are not aware of this strategy it would seem. They have recently been sailing an armada around Taiwan - rehearsing a blockade and defying the west to come to war with them. The firepower industry leaders would be delighted at this - another very big, very expensive war away from Americas shores is brewing - the profits will be obscene.
Were the Chinese more strategically aware they would have sailed their armada around Haiti. Threatened to invade to bring good governance, and the result would have been a quick quid pro quo, Haiti for Taiwan. Fighting a war that close to Washington would be very risky in terms of positive outcomes for the firepower industry leaders. The profits would not be enough for the risks involved.
The result of the quid pro quo, no bloodshed - no obscene profit. But a better outcome for all without a doubt.
………. ‘ You are using the back of the spoon ‘ there Charles…..
Eisenhower warned us and we didn't take heed. So now, we get to bleed. However, if this leads to WWIII, the least of our worries may be bleeding, as was the case with Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
"— war pays. At least it pays for those in the firepower industry. For everyone else, it is a curse. So far this century, the total cost of the Empire budget is roughly equal to US debt. The Fed must inflate to keep up with it".
But, but Mr. Bonner.
According to the Democratic Party’s presidential pundit - they're not going to change anything AND somehow spend, spend, spend, some more to make everything appear joyouse & even more wonderful...
Now, the question is - doesn't their base of intellectual mid-wits know about facts? As adults with responsibilities and or children, they should, so I wonder what demographic keeps the so-called voter-polls so tightly close. Logically nothing that we hear from the bowels of the Democratic Party including their unlimited budget to saturate multimedia advertisement manipulation capitalization to feed the mindless.
Mostly a levelheaded column by Bonner today - well, for Bill, anyway. Except that he continues to argue that the "defense industry (or contractors, as he puts it)" along with certain politicians continually push for war because they make money off of it. And he rests his case on the simple fact that since there is war, then this must be true. No attempt to differentiate between legitimate reasons to enter into certain conflicts versus others. He lumps them all in the same basket. (And, yes, we've gotten into conflicts we definitely shouldn't have.) While Bill's assertions may seem to be valid simply because there is money to be made by the defense industry, he must do more than just make the point - he needs to explain the details that support his argument. Presenting a list of conflicts is not an argument. And while Americans are getting a little tired (sick, actually) of all the conflicts, there are some that are in our interest and some that are not.
https://aynrand.org/the-roots-of-war/
War is a constant.
Today, we’re indirectly but heavily involved in two — Ukraine’s and Israel’s. A third is gestating — one with China.
None were started, instigated or promoted by the Firepower industry
Despite its pricing, slow pace and legal missteps, I’m grateful for the Firepower industry we have
We need it now and for so long as war is constant
Needed to defend Your own boarders, not some one Elsa's.
Ha! I see what you did there...
"None were started, instigated or promoted by the Firepower industry".
Really ??? U've actually convinced yourself that to be the facts?!?
Can you cite any instances throughout history whereby sword makers started a war for armies to finish?
Perhaps I can not think of one offhand, but behind every leader is the complex of the military. Unless I am dreaming!
Big difference between the military and the firms that respond to their demands for weapons
The former use them. The latter simply make them
The firms make the weapons but also control think tanks that promulgate military solutions to every problem. Plus they use their economic power to influence our mass media. Ex-generals regularly appear on TV telling us Ukraine or Israel need more military aid or that we must prepare for war with China.
War is constant with or without think tanks and opinionated generals.
Now to your equation add the fact the sword makers OWN the war declarers...
We have three players.
The beggars (Firepower lobbyists); the Congress (the purse string holder and only entity authorized to declare war) and the President (also the CinC, or Commander in Chief)
The CinC has been waging wars without Congressional authorization since 1946.
This compels the Firepower industry to beg the purse string holder (Congress) for money to produce the weapons the CinC's Army-Navy-Air Force need
Congress always puts its re-election interests ahead of the national interests. Every member wears shoes whose heels are round making them all easier to push over
Consequently, the beggars (The Firepower industry) get what they need. The members of Congress get what they want (more money to ensure they will get re-elected) and the current CinC gets to wage another losing war
The ultimate loser: the US taxpayer
But are still involved. No?
Now that I think about things, North Korea leadership has the backing of the "army" . With which ole Kim would be left to his own wits!
…..No Jimm. Swords are a lot different to missiles and big ships + aircraft.
I was educated to not argue by the use of analogy. You know - use apples with apples. Appreciate your offerings though.