[Worldtraveler once upon a time]

Thanks for the response. Your quote is from "Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries" by A. E. Housman.

I think the title, from a time of one of the "great" wars, should not be ignored.

Source: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/57275/epitaph-on-an-army-of-mercenaries

You observe, "there are a host of stories running at once, and you may not be hearing all of them in the US."

Indeed there are a host of competing stories, and one of these is the attempt to silence other stories. You note the failure of the US elite, and in this we wholly agree. In all the money games -- I link climate change, war materiel marketing, the pandemic "event," and more -- I tend to be skeptical of money as it floods about without scrutiny and 'oddly' ending up in the hands of the same elite.

My wife and I try to read broadly, being multilingual, and read competing posts across a range of views, as a way of minimizing confirmation bias. Best wishes.

[buwaya]

Heh, switched poets!
Anyway, good luck.