Re: the US borders Ukraine and Afganistan?

Just a guess.

Lessons were learned in WW2 and WW1. If you don't support countries against an aggressor, eventually you will have to deal with them directly from a position where they have much more power and resources. We saw this with Japan in the Pacific, taking islands, claiming land, and eventually attacking Pearl Harbor. We saw it in Europe with Hitler taking country after country, only to have to go and fight him as well.

Had we backed China (more) against japan, and other Pacific nations, things could have been very different. Had we backed some of the European states like Poland, etc. Hitler could have been stopped.
We joined South Korea fighting North Korea as Russia backed NK and we backed SK. BUT, we didn't have to fight Russia.

Proxy wars have prevented a third world war for decades now, and they are the preferred solution. We helped Afghanistan and the Taliban against the Russians. We helped Saddam Hussein as well, against Iran. HOWEVER, eventually, fighting enough proxy wars, you learn the enemy of your enemy is not necessarily your friend, as they can then attack you, or your friends. Saddam attacked Kuwait, and the Taliban orchestrated 911.

ANYWAY, this is the detente world set up by Henry Kissinger and Richard Nixon, and many others have played along, and it has been a relatively good plan overall, at least with avoiding WW3. Proxy wars are the cornerstone of the most peaceful era of human history, relatively speaking.

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My biggest fear for the future is anti-semitism taking hold.

Apr 19, 2024, 11:37 AM

Because the economic system the west currently runs on, is based on centuries old Jewish economic principles. It's a very successful system, and very profitable for everyone, if run morally and with constraint and moderation. BUT, if things go sour with the economy, expect to see anti-semitism increase.

The religious persecution of jews, and the animosity arabs have with the jews, is religious in nature. BUT, worldwide, most antisemitism is not rooted in religion, but in the economy. If you go way back in economic history, it was the jews who laid the foundation upon which America's modern economy is built. Heck, the entire western world now. And it's a hugely successful system. It all stems from debt. And more specifically, usury. Christians today do not think of debt as evil. Quite the opposite. It's an "asset". It builds wealth, and it helps the poor become wealthy, over time, IF controlled and used wisely. For over 1,000 years, charging interest on debt was considered a sin by the Christian church. It was deemed evil as it placed the borrower into servitude of the lender, and allowed the lender to extract labor from the borrower beyond that which was lent. Long ago, during the same period of time Christians vilified usury, it was embraced by the jews. Under the jewish religion, jews who lent money to other jews could not charge interest on that debt (usury). BUT, jews were allowed to charge interest to other non-jews. And this is why, no matter where jews traveled and settled in the world (and they traveled to make wealth in Christian nations), they were always prosperous. They became bankers, and lenders of money over time. With modern regulations on usury though, a system was devised where usury could be limited enough to still help the lender, while not placing the borrower into servitude. And the modern banking system was formed.

What America has added to this equation is something new, and dangerous, and ultimately unworkable over time. We have devised a system where debt can be considered an asset, upon which more debt can be lent, creating more debt, and a larger asset, upon which MORE debt can be lent. This all assumes the lower tier, originating debtor, can pay their debts, and on up the line. Think of it as a pyramid scheme, but instead of cash being the currency, debt is the currency. This is the system that collapsed in 2008 when banks lent more then they should, to people who never could pay it, but the banks saw that higher debt load on the borrower as an asset upon which they could then create even more debt, BIGGER assets, and so on. And when the original scheme unraveled at the lowest level, it unraveled all the way to the top of the financial system, mainly through the derivatives markets.

Countries who prosper on debt have problems when that debt is misplaced, and becomes too large. They become subject to the danger of inflation, which is where the difference in debt lent, versus labor expended to repay the debt, get out of whack and the equilibrium is lost. When this happens, and debt becomes toxic as the currency underpinning it changes in value, and everyone suffers as a result, anti-semitism historically has thrived. The hyperinflation in Weimar Germany led to the antisemitism that defined Hitler and the Nazis. Mismanaged debt, coupled with reparations that were owed by germany for WW1, planted great social distrust in the jewish community, which has always thrived on debt, and who historically introduced it into modern economics.

Human nature says the system of banking and finance we have today is prone to fail. The strength and morality of the jewish religion keeps the evil in lending in check, where less religious or pragmatic people see more money, the jews have always managed to use constraint. Overall, though, today, while using a financial system based on the financial system the jews created over centuries, we have lost the restraint, and used debt for nefarious purposes. We've used it in government to buy votes and reelection for decades now. We've used it to buy huge houses we couldn't afford in the early 2000's. Without a strong moral character, one could fall victim to this type of lending. My very best friend offered me one of the EXACT loans that sank the financial industry in the US. 5 years, interest only, affordable, for only 5 years, for more than I could afford later. I declined the offer, on moral grounds. I did not see my salary tripling in 5 years enough to service my mortgage, which would also triple. That was not just a financial decision, but a moral one to decline that loan. I advised my friend he shouldn't even be selling those loans. My friend lost his job, in large part because he sold those mortgages. His employer went out of business. He and his brothers lost their jobs.

I never understood anti-semitism until college, and taking history courses. But it's not a religious animosity for most, it's blaming a religion for an economic problem that creates anti-semitism. It's subtle. Most people who hate jews don't even know why they do, but there is a reason. There are stereotypes. Who were the bankers in Harry Potter? That wasn't by mistake. There is a deep-rooted history of anti-semitism and its roots are more economic than religious in the west. Except for the hatred of arabs, the antisemitism seen in the west is rooted mostly in the economy the west actually thrives on. And it will rise again if the economy goes south. It always does. When you have back pain bad, you LOVE your doctor when he gives you some pain pills. Get hooked, end up an addict, and die from an overdose, and your family HATES your doctor. Money is the same type of addiction. You LOVE your lender for providing financial relief, only to hate them later if you go broke paying them back. And when your lender becomes greedy and lends you more money than you can repay, or your doctor becomes greedy and keeps writing scriptz for pain pills, you end up hating them both.

There is a lot of fuel for anti-semitism in the United States. A lot of debt. Europe as well. We have taken the morally grounded economic system created by the jewish people, and misused it to our own detriment, over time.

https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/banking-and-bankers

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Why does the US have to fight other countries wars?

Re: Why does the US have to fight other countries wars?

That begs the question, why sould we pay?***

Re: That begs the question, why sould we pay?***

Re: That begs the question, why sould we pay?***

Re: That begs the question, why sould we pay?***

the US borders Ukraine and Afganistan?

Same reason I have to pay off student loans for other people. Insanity.***

So we don't have to fight the countries they're fighting?

Re: So we don't have to fight the countries they're fighting?

Lol. And the children of those boomers rely heavily on those same

Balm hates boomers but lives EXACTLY like them.***

My biggest fear for the future is anti-semitism taking hold.

"Morally grounded"... Not even close. Look at 2007/8 as a prime example.

Oh, the bankers were not morally grounded at all.

Remonds me of the Big Short

I agree that antisemitism spikes when the economy goes bad....

Re: Lol. And the children of those boomers rely heavily on those same

We don't have to.

$$$$$$$ and that Global economy thingie????***

Well, that, and also not being the biggest swinging military d!ck on the

Re: Why does the US have to fight other countries wars?

Because we are ruled by foreigners.***

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