orlov's police state

ORLOV’S POLICE STATE

I hope in the past I have stated my love and admiration for our friend Dmitri Orlov ( I hope I spelled the first name correctly-SpellCheck does not do Slav well ) emphatically enough.  Granted, he took awhile to grow on me.  I was aware but not impressed at first.  Yet, as I became aware of the forest with all these damn trees in the way, his writing started making far more sense and I began an unrequited BroMance.  His books are on my Buy Immediately Regardless list, which is pretty small and exclusive.  Now, having blown sunshine up his, what I can only imagine as bear-like and hairy, ass, I must make enough comments on his 03-03-2015 blog ( Club Orlov dot com ) to create an entire blog article of my own.  First off, see above.  Second, yes, I understand this was one of those “I’m just taking a shot at understanding so please don’t hate me” type of articles I practically invented, so numerous are they.  So, no hate here.  I just think the whole thing is so far from hitting the bullseye, I must comment.  The article states, hey, why are losing all our wars?  The point is perhaps, we don’t have to win?  So that our citizens stay afraid and docile?

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If we fight, say, Libya, and nothing good comes out of it as far as recognizing our strategic goals, the feeling is that we still win because of both the bankers profits and the boogeyman kept alive to pacify the masses.   Am I the only one who sees DC’s incompetence as par for the course rather than an accident?  Who wants to lose wars?  Even central bankers who choose which side to bet heavily on ( the enemy is of course funded and is profitable, but in orders of magnitude less ) need their winner to prevail.  Just because Hitler was funded didn’t mean there was anything left at the end to cash in on.  And, let’s just pretend yet another intelligent writer didn’t pick up the trendy topic of the day and try to prop up that dusty bitch from twenty years ago.  The American police state was started up in the 80’s as the War On Drugs was fed accelerant, although at the time few of us noticed as we were busy trying on pastel colored sleeveless shirts and cool Miami Vice shades.  In the early 90’s, with the Arkansas drug kingpin Clinton putting on a jovial face, mothers were snipered, children were burned alive and false flag terror attacks were tried out for size, along with a prototype voter fraud nationwide.  The velvet glove came off the iron fist as soon as the Soviets freed up enough “intelligence” operatives to start terrorizing the populace ( I’m not blind to decades prior of official state terror tactics, especially in the 60’s, but those were conducted at a populace which retained a sense of rebelliousness against it.  The 90’s on saw blind acceptance in the mainstream as the masses were bought off with the first break economically speaking in generations ). 

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No one wants to say “held indefinitely without charges”, most likely because all the poser fake chest beating macho semi-auto clutching “pry from my cold dead fingers” morons feel kind of stupid for not saying a damn thing about it years ago, even though it does hold the Constitution up for combustion quite nicely.  Who needs a new and improved police state with all the compliance going on?  Unless they are starved, no one is going to rebel.  Why would there be any need to fight scrimmages with savages to keep the population afraid?  And the military industrial complex never needed a war.  They just needed spending for a future war.  So, what is my take on Orlov’s question as to why we are suddenly losing all our wars?  Perhaps because a system on the downward trajectory of empire does that.  And perhaps because we broke the cardinal rule of the lesson from Vietnam- don’t fight in economic system depleting major wars, only in small un-losable ones.  Iraq might not have had a major adversary ( not after ten years of embargos and bombings ), but we got sucked into a guerilla conflict that we threw very expensive ordinance against, for far too long, and that, right along with the worst timing ever of Peak Oil, kicked our ass ( of course, having another couple of wars going didn’t help ).  We are finished as a viable entity, militarily ( because of the fragmentation of nation states in a lot of places, there are no conventional armies for ours to fight, and nation state wars are expensive and need to end quickly ), economically ( don’t forget the $16 trillion that went JUST to foreign bank bailouts to keep the system from collapsing, nor the $1+ QUADRILLION in derivatives waiting impatiently ), morally and in every other facet.  As Rome couldn’t defeat the last of its foes, neither can we.  Iraq was about PetroDollar dominance ( among other things ) and by the middle of that conflict we were so screwed we had to bribe all the factions with claims on the potential oil wealth just to make it look less like a defeat.   And now, we can’t even do something as simple as keep China from its chosen oil patches in Africa.  Why do we keep waiting for a clear warning collapse has begun when it is in our rearview mirror?  Even the most casual study of empires past provides enough parallels to be instructive.  Weather change has already been here and done that.  Militarily we are impotent ( this detracts nothing from the individual valor, but says everything about our incompetent leadership ).  Economically it was game over years ago.  The soil was long ago depleted and energy supplies declining.  Damn, you need a map tattooed on your forehead?

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