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| By Every Historical Precedent, the Next Act Will be War |
| 2023-09-09 |
| [Townhall] The following quote is a bit lengthy, but please read it through. It is a brilliant and tragic analysis: "The History of Japan is an unfinished drama in which three acts have been played. The first, barring the primitive and legendary centuries, is classical Buddhist Japan (522-1603 A.D.), suddenly civilized by China and Korea, refined and softened by religion, and creating the historical masterpieces of Japanese literature and art. The second is the feudal and peaceful Japan of the Tokugawa shogunate (1603-1868), isolated and self-contained, seeking no alien territory and no external trade, content with agriculture, and wedded to art and philosophy. The third act is modern Japan, opened up in 1853 by an American fleet, forced by conditions within and without to trade and industry, seeking foreign materials and markets, fighting wars of irrepressible expansion, imitating the imperialistic ardor and methods of the West, and threatening both the ascendancy of the white race and the peace of the world. By every historical precedent, the next act will be war. The Japanese have studied our civilization carefully in order to absorb its values and surpass it. Perhaps we should be wise to study their civilization as patiently as they have studied ours, so that when a crisis comes that must issue either in war or understanding, we may be capable of understanding." (Will Durant, "Our Oriental Heritage," Chapter 28) "By every historical precedent, the next act will be war..." The words above were written in 1935, six years before the Japanese invasion of Pearl Harbor and the beginning of World War II in the Pacific. ...As I have reiterated so many times in my columns on Townhall and elsewhere, an ignorance of history is an inexcusable tragedy for a nation. It is also what totalitarian, Leftist regimes, like the Democratic Party, want. Karl Marx: "Keep people from their history, and they are easily controlled." "Historical precedent" can often give us meaningful clues to the future; not absolute predictions, but pretty good hints. Wars are often clashes between two great world (or regional) powers or involve upstarts who want to be up there with the big guys. Babylon and Egypt, Babylon and Assyria, Greece and Persia, Rome and Carthage, England and France, England and Germany (twice), Japan and America. The world is simply not big enough for both King Kong and Godzilla. Somebody has to win; somebody has to lose. When there are two great powers, they will almost inevitably, eventually, go to war for dominance. America and the Soviet Union never directly confronted each other—except in a frightful, world-menacing "Cold War." But the peripheries existed—Korea, Vietnam, and a hundred places where the USSR fought to the last Cuban and America couldn’t stay neutral. I’ve often said there are no absolutes in history, but war is about as close as one gets to it, especially when two muscle-men stand eye-to-eye and toe-to-toe. Somebody inevitably throws the first punch. Neither side backs down. China. Is war between America and China inevitable? "By every historical precedent..." America, the great world power. China, the upstart, is seeking grander glory and self-aggrandizement. Who stands in the way of China? Only one nation. The United States. Are we going to give up our place in the world to somebody else? No nation in history has ever voluntarily done so. That IS a historical absolute. Unfortunately, IMO, USA became great power through undustrial production - and then, it bent over and spread 'em for enviromentals and MBAs (it's short term cheaper to produce offshore) ...China is our threat. No, let me restate that. Joe Biden and the Uniparty is America’s greatest threat. They are wasting America’s resources and energy on Ukraine's absolutely unimportant (to America’s interests) conflict. "Yea, but the hoi polloi were unhappy with the retreat from Afghanistan, so we gave them another war - who could've guessed that sanctions won't collapse Russia?!?" (well anyone who studied Russian history, but ... |
| Posted by:Grom the Reflective |
| #3 China is only great because they have the US as a market for their goods. If they were to start a war that ends and they'd drop back to they third world pretty quick. In fact some news reports suggest they are already on the way. |
| Posted by: ruprecht 2023-09-09 11:25 |
| #2 The 5 times humans almost went EXTINCT - as scientists reveal the date our species could finally be wiped out |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2023-09-09 11:13 |
| #1 Just go back 110 years and look at the World Picture and the USA. 1910's ----> 2000+ --------------------------- WWI ends ----> Afghan Pandemic ----> Pandemic Roaring 20's ----> Roaring 20's Gov bans various items ----> Gov. Bans various Items Economic Issues ----> Economic Issues Large Bank Failures ----> Large Bank Failures Stock market issues ----> Stock market issues Recession ----> Recession Depression ----> Depression Massive Homeless ----> Massive Homeless Socialism stared ----> Socialism increased President with health issues ----> President health issues Major Crime syndicates ----> Major Crime syndicates. Nation Police Force ----> Use of _ _ _ agencies Racial Group attacked ----> Racial Group attacked Asia nation expands ----> Asia nation (CCP) expands USA Attacked ----> USA Attacked WAR Declared ----> WAR Declared Population culled ----> Population culled |
| Posted by: NN2N1 2023-09-09 06:29 |