“War is the continuation of politics by other means”
—Prussian General, Carl von Clausewitz (“On War,” 1832)
Gen. Clausewitz, still considered a relevant master of war, wrote the timeless strategist’s classic, “On War” which remains the subject of study at military staff colleges globally.
Mao Ze Dong made the General’s tome the focus of his study in 1938 as preparation for revolution.
When political discourse devolves between states, Clausewitz accurately describes the next phase as a state of war.
There have been numerous state versus state outbreaks of war in the last six months.
President Trump’s leadership has fortunately snuffed out these conflicts as they began. Pakistan vs. India, Azerbaijan vs. Armenia and Cambodia vs. Thailand, are just a few examples of such wars.
What Trump did was to administer a tourniquet to those battles while addressing the more intractable wars in Europe and the Mideast.
The other type of war Clausewitz pointed to was civil war; when a nation’s internal politics transitions to parties or the people taking up arms against the government.
As U.S. statecraft is in overdrive to end the spate of wars, it has limited options to address this new, rising trend of political discourse boiling over into political violence and in some cases, government toppling, civil war.
The forces behind the violence we see globally share a common denominator. Control vs. freedom, or more simply stated Marxism vs. Liberty.
These are still Orwellian-style newspeak terms, and they are Marxist.
Renown Economist Martin Armstrong stands behind his AI-fueled model, “Socrates” when he says WWIII will be well underway by early 2026.
On his numerous podcast appearances, he tells us that global war won’t start the way it has in the past, it will be a “contagion” effect of wars erupting in all regions, eventually spilling into each other and connecting.
Are we seeing this contagion effect starting now?
From Kathmandu, Nepal to Orem, Utah political violence from all sides is on the rise.
Nepal’s Gen Z Stands Up
In 2008, Chinese Communist Party sponsored Maoists took over Nepal, outlawed the royal family and set about total control of the people.
This week, totalitarian authorities bypassed potential effects issuing edicts instead.
In this case, President Ram Poudel, banned all social media, citing misinformation.
Of course, the government failed to understand that doing so vaporized the monetized social media channels funding their Gen Z youth.
After a protest at the university, 19 students were shot dead by state police. The people reached the snap point.
With no rule of law or rights to bring grievances and with no ability to earn any money, they revolted.
The masses burned the famed 122-year-old Parliament building to the ground, along with the homes of the leadership and several key structures.
As the leaders grabbed helicopter ropes to escape, the reviled Prime Minister’s wife was burned alive until dead.
The military flipped, swearing allegiance to the people, who are now celebrating the retaking of their nation.
Farewell Mao and the Chinese Communist Party?
Across Europe, the citizens are conducting mass protests.
They want their rights back and are pushing back on authoritarian edicts out of the European Union.
Many of Europe’s heads of state, loyal to the World Economic Forum (WEF) over their peoples, cast aside Vice President JD Vance’s warning that departing from western values, favoring illegal Islamist migrants over the citizens would end in disaster.
Tomorrow the UK will add on to protests in Ireland, France, Germany, Belgium, Italy, Spain, and Holland to push back on what the collectivists are demanding. Will they be inspired by the youth of Nepal?
Battlefield America!
We mourned the loss of our young Ukrainian woman, Iryna Zarytska starting another horrific week of cashless bail monsters preying on the innocent — Iryna was not the first by far.
This is just as it was designed to be with years of our tax dollars going to NGOs (non-governmental organizations), led by left wing elites who know that one world government is not possible without a vanquished America.
What better way than to open the borders and empanel corrupt politicians and judges to create a zombie army to attack us.
Charlie Kirk Assassinated!
He was (and is) loved by most in our nation, especially our country’s conservative youth.
Kirk was a Christian (young) man whose only curse to the left was in debating their positions on college campuses with humility and precision.
The horrors mounted as we watched Congress, the media and the urchin left apparatchiks say the most repugnant things . . . some espousing more violence to come.
There is only one way to head off the good citizens of this nation in reaching their own “breaking point” like the Nepalese. There isn’t much time left.
The season of accountability for the crimes of the swamp and higher up the billionaire food chain must start in earnest.
The evidence is paraded across the airwaves daily.
Without arrests, it’s just theater, plants the seeds of hopelessness and sets the course that Clausewitz and Armstrong warned of.
Brig Gen (ret) Blaine Holt is a former Deputy Representative to NATO, lifetime member on the Council on Foreign Relations, tech entrepreneur and Newsmax Contributor. The views presented are those of the author and do not represent the views of the U.S. Government, Department of Defense, or its components. Read Gen. Holt’s reports — More Here.
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