When I was doing some work in Germany in 2016, I took the local train from the quaint little German village where I was living to the neighboring town where I was working. The train stop was outdoors right across from a large grass covered field with a couple rolling mounds peppered with yellow flowers. On a sunny day it seemed to go on forever and you couldn’t see what was on the far side at all.
I remember imagining what it must have been like during WWII when such a pristine landscape was turned into a battlefield virtually overnight. How the tanks must have come rolling over the mounds and plowed through the field and yellow flowers in an intimidating show of military might turning innocent people’s lives into fear and suffering. Bombing entire cities to rubble that just days before were hustling, bustling centers of daily life. Killing the mailman, the school teacher, parents and children alike in the name of war.
There is a very distinct recipe to turning people’s lives into fear and suffering, a procedure for destroying physical and psychological normalcy, a process for creating war. The most important ingredient is a lot of young men and women who will do anything they are ordered to do by those they perceive as authority. These are the soldiers, the tools of war, the blunt instruments who have been marinated their entire lives in patriotism, the flag and duty to god and country to the point they shit the colors of the flag. They’ve been indoctrinated since childhood that they have a duty to their motherland upon whose bosom they suckled and who, without which, they’d have nothing. They are carbon-based androids programed to follow orders and kill with extreme prejudice. They aren’t capable of critical thought or compassion because those are treasonous characteristics in a soldier.
After that you add some authority, generals who give the soldiers their orders. The generals are old men mostly, adorned from head to toe with shiny medals and ribbons, sashes and pins bestowed upon them by the powers that be, publicly announcing their heroism and patriotism which commands the greatest respect on sight. The soldiers revere the generals as almost demigods whose stature is to be admired and orders to be obeyed without question. The generals are the catalyst in the recipe that congeal the soldiers into an adhesive whole.
But the generals don’t act independently, they are following orders as well from the powers that be (TPTB). TPTB are the people and organizations that run the world, the superrich, the global governmental organizations like the UN, WHO, World Bank, IMF, NATO and the WEF and the bureaucrats that run them. They all have their agenda of increasing their global power and personal wealth and they use the generals to carry out their diabolical plans who in turn order the soldiers to do whatever their role is in the scheme and voila` war is created.
But the recipe has a fatal flaw, without the soldiers there is no war. The generals aren’t young enough or numerous enough to fight and TPTB and bureaucrats can’t be bothered with such proletarian endeavors, that’s what the disposable soldiers are for. It’s only the soldiers you see on the battlefield or occupying towns and terrorizing the residents.
As the mainstream media insists on beating the war drums louder and louder, I look out over the center of Bucharest, Romania where I live and the main thoroughfare full of cars with people living their lives, going to work, shopping, taking their kids to school and imagine the street, overnight, being filled with armored trucks, foot soldiers and tanks like in WWII Germany because some general ordered them to do so the day before. The sounds of explosions off in the distance demolishing old world buildings that have stood for hundreds of years. Terrorizing anyone who disobeys their commands, in the name of national security. How quickly life as we know it can change – as 2020 showed – due to TPTB, the generals, the soldiers and politics.
If only the soldiers had the character to realize what they were being ordered to do was wrong, the courage to refuse to obey the orders, and the honor to not disgrace themselves by doing something they know is wrong. Peace and humanity in the world begins at the bottom with the soldiers, not at the top with TPTB or their puppet bureaucrats and generals. Those people are irrelevant as is voting for them.
The Christmas Truce in WWI demonstrated how quickly and decisively soldiers can end war. The soldiers on both sides began singing Christmas carols and came out of their opposing trenches and drank wine, sang and laughed. They had nothing against one another, they didn’t even know one another so why fight? The war was suspended by them regardless what the generals said. If they could have just continued that, the war would have been over because – as the truce demonstrated — soldiers aren’t sent to war, they are the war.