The Great War (Image credit: Frontier)
by Mary Maxwell, LLB, current candidate for the United States Senate
Dear People, whoever will listen,
It is possible to watch reasonable coverage of the Iran war on YouTube, with such academic speakers as Prof John Mearshimer and Jeffrey Sachs, journalists Max Blumenthal and Chris Hedges, and battle-smart Americans like Col Doug Macgregor and Scott Ritter. They are frequently interviewed by Judge Napolitano and Mario Nawal.
One finds oneself assuming that their focused view has in it some key to success, that is, ways to end the war. But you’d better not count on that. This war has two human-nature features in it, both of which suggest that decisions are being made ‘irrationally.’
Those two human-nature features are masculinity and group-loyalty. Both press the decision-maker to live up to his expectations of his competitive drive as a man among men, and his reputation for being an unwavering protector of his group. This indicates, to me, that a war could go on for a long time. When I say their decisions will be made irrationally, I mean compared to a cold calculation of what is the smartest move.
Pretend for the moment that there were no such thing as male humans. The all-female army for each nation is directed by female generals. And the US commander in chief in the White House is female. Those persons would not have a built-in urge for combat. They would not be excited by the sight of huge weaponry. They would not be thrilled to engage in an ambush of their predator.
Now pretend, instead, that it’s a typical contest of two all-male armies, but where the contenders have no significant difference in their ethnicity or their religion. The whole lot of them look alike. Each group may have pride in its country’s tradition, but not a sense of the other group being unfit for humanity. The only goal is to win a particular prize, such as land, or retribution for a prior insult, not to “save our people to live in all future generations, per God’s wishes.”
That’s my argument against expecting any of the current participants in the Middle East “action” to be rational. They won’t pull out their notebooks and apply such questions as “Have we really got a good chance to win?” “Is our favoritism with one of the armed groups going to mess up our alliances with others, down the line?” “Should we hold back out of appreciation of environmental values, such as a clean ocean?” “Are we spending money on armaments that will kill our economy back home?”
Mr Monster
That’s all I have to say about today’s war in terms of “men having a go” and about humans protecting their religion or ethnic tribe. If those were the main problems, I guess the solution would be to try to inject more rational factors into the decisions made on all sides.
But I think the danger posed by craziness really comes from an entirely different issue. I think we are all ignorant of a major Conspiracy that is very likely involved. I don’t know enough to make a tight case for it here, so I am instead going to sketch a Possible Alternative History of the Modern West.
Please look upon this as a thought exercise, OK? I am going to call the people at the top “the Monsters.” I don’t mean they dress like Frankenstein. They dress like you and me. Also, I don’t mean that they have a genetic trait for monster-class cruelty and deceit. They have the bad stuff all of us possess, which turns into monstrosity when circumstances invite it.
To make it simple, I’ll say that one guy, Mr Monster started the whole thing ages ago, and gradually picked up members. Often, membership was passed down through blood (as they say). It could increase when the Monsters encountered a whole ’nuther group that could be offered a deal to ally with the Monsters. Or maybe they noticed a very wicked individual and added him in as a paid helper.
Over time, especially by abstraction of money, the Monster group gained great wealth. Sometimes they gained wealth by having their daughters marry into royal families. Those royal families claimed large tracts of land as belonging to their ethnic group, yet they didn’t parcel it out to the population, they kept the title and leased out most pieces.
The Monsters team of planners looked for many ways to control whole populations. One of the rules of the game was: Break up any group that showed signs of becoming very strong. They would do this by starting internal fights over any topic. Another, related rule was to control gossip or “news” by planting specialists in every group.
Media and Unreality and Secrecy
Once radio was invented, it allowed every household to receive this fake news, sprinkled of course with some observable facts. (“It snowed today.”) Fashion trends could be encouraged by the media, just as the media (the Monster media) could design the ideologies of two opposing political parties.
Party membership could be assisted by bribes and/or intimidation. “Leaders” would be made into celebrities, and the people usually take any celebrity seriously. As soon as Monster people were “elected” to government position, laws could be passed to create any type of social and economic arrangement (including dire poverty!).
Having climbed into local religions and schools, the Monsters’ appointees made up an unreal world, one that everybody accepted as real. They designed the professions and thus when the people went to their doctor or their lawyer, they were in many cases going to persons who did not even realize they were carrying out a master plan. On top of this, the body of science and the justice rules on courts were made to serve the Monsters.
Rather recently, different countries set out to invent great weapons. It soon was noticed at the top that a full-scale war could be carried out by A against B with neither A nor B recognizing this outside control. Soldiers and sailors would believe they were sacrificing their lives for a “good cause.” The Monsters found this very amusing.
Corruption of “law enforcement” was a key activity and so was secrecy. The Monsters let all their members know that they would not hesitate to kill any who spilled the beans, and subsequently kept that promise.
Also, among their large spy ring, members were shown only part of the whole picture on a “need to know” basis. Even high-up Monsters were willing to run a fiefdom or an industry without needing to grasp the entire picture.
This Must Stop!
There is no need for me to add more details. I now return to the theme of this article. We watch on YouTube as intelligent people analyze the war. In their analysis they mention the male viewpoints of the players (“We must not lose and be humiliated”) and the alleged barriers posed by race and religion (“Muslims must do Such-and-Such but Israel might thwart them,” or vice versa).
Still, the irrationality of this World War Three is also a function of the hiddenness of the great Conspiracy. It is at least a good bet that the Monsters (who are not clearly identifiable -- it could be anyone) are directing the entire scene. If so, we are crazy if we call “conspiracy theorists” crazy.
Citizens need to hurry up and get on top of this. At the very least, they should be told that even if some bits of the foregoing Monster Scenario are dubious, embarrassment about discussing it is unwise. There is surely a crisis involving killing and economic chaos.
Just today, writer John Leake noted at the website “Courageous Discourse’:
“The reckless gamble with the existence of the American people and the peoples of Western Europe appears to be getting more dangerous by the day.”
I volunteer that my country, with its leader Donald Trump, be the one to wave a white flag, proffer an olive branch, sign the MOU of June 2026, or do whatever is reasonable, to stop this meaningless war.
If I am correct that a Monster is in full charge, then it must be that US President Trump is one of the Monster’s high members, or one of the Monster’s obedient servants.
Not in my backyard, Buddy.
Call it a day, would you?
-- Mary Maxwell’s website is www. Constitution And Truth.com. She is on the Republican ballot for the September 8, 2026 primary in New Hampshire, hoping for a January 3, 2027 entry into the United States Senate, where she will make a stink every chance she gets.