[BusterDog]

“I remember getting pooh poohed when I was hawking the book On Escalation in early March. Welcome to my March nightmare.”

*****

I remember when I was very young, and first beginning to learn about the horrors of WW2. I was convinced that was an aberration, an outlier in history that has been learned from and certainly would not be repeated again.

Now, I think that is man’s natural state and character, and it’s rather surprising we have made it this far without a repeat performance.

[ought-six]

“I remember when I was very young, and first beginning to learn about the horrors of WW2. I was convinced that was an aberration, an outlier in history that has been learned from and certainly would not be repeated again. Now, I think that is man’s natural state and character, and it’s rather surprising we have made it this far without a repeat performance.”

Actually, throughout history peace has been the aberration, and war and conflict the norm.

[HereInTheHeartland]

“ Now, I think that is man’s natural state and character, and it’s rather surprising we have made it this far without a repeat performance.”

Exactly right

[Lurker]

“Now, I think that is man’s natural state and character, and it’s rather surprising we have made it this far without a repeat performance.”

War is the default condition of mankind. The last 80 years of relative peace have been an aberration. 90% of mankind is so totally blinded by the normalcy bias cause by this period of “peace” that when, not if, another global war begins they won’t know whether to **** or go blind.

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