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A DISH BEST SERVED COLD 2

When I say “Food First”, I don't just mean you buy bags of wheat before more AR mags ( yes, yes, blow me dough boys. I love wheat, you might not. Whatever your grain of choice is. Just because the Chinese eat rice and against the taste of that even bat soup is num-nums, that doesn't mean wheat is superior, tastes better, is cheaper or more nutritious. Nothing to see here. Move on down to your local rice emporium ). It also means food explains ALL human behavior. All of it. There, now you don't need a college degree, anthropology students.

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Food determines if your area is a centralized agricultural empire or full of tribal nomads. Because food determines the kind of government you have. Even the Industrial Revolution and the Oil Age is still fundamentally about food. You could have used industry to have trade goods for food ( Britain, China ), or used industry to feed extra population ( US, Russia, China ), but in the end factories don't matter except for protecting or producing more food. Our imperial stormtroopers occupying the planet is a legacy system.

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We had so much industrial output agriculture we used food as a weapon. Now we use foreign oil to keep feeding ourselves. It is no longer about wealth but survival ( well, wealth for our overlords ). It was always about food. Those areas with the fiercest tribal fighting are generally in areas where the tribal structure fits the food production system. Where does the more militant tribes reside in the US? Usually in those areas where food is local and doesn't need a centralized system. In Iraq, food production needs centralization because of water, but the rest of the country is an Industrial Age/Colonial holdover and not needed.

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It is surplus land, most likely only important for a barrier and for the access of the headwaters to the agricultural areas. The areas are better left to tribal control, as long as the understanding remains who the water ultimately belongs to ( and the local tribe agrees to act as a speed bump to invasion ). The only reason the borders still stand is oil and inertia. In the future, it will break up. Everywhere will revert back to local food production. I bring this up to reinforce the forces arrayed against the nation state. Which is a artificial construct only viable during times of surplus.

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That is why you don't see America, Iraq or Afghanistan united. They are already reverting back to a natural system determined by food production. The Appalachian and Ozark mountains have little reason to belong to another country, as they survive best by homesteading with some villages for limited trade. The Rockies can provide a similar organization but with those distances and the limited agriculture, I think the Mormon model is better. A centralized area for cereal production and settlement areas to act as security on the borders ( plus a needed expansion capacity ).

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Afghanistan survived many of the world's biggest empires by staying tribal. That works for them. Valley cereal production, mountain herders acting as security. Why don't they unite as one? Because that defies the whole definition of tribal, doesn't it? Now, tribal doesn't always work. It sure didn't help against the French and British if you were in Africa. Sometimes the military tech will make a difference in MOST-not all-areas. But you will note that Africa was only subjugated for a very short time. Then it went back to the survival trait of being Africa.

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No matter what happens, Africa for the most part ( obvious, not places like Egypt ) stays tribal. It is a survival mechanism. No matter the population, the famine level, the diseases, Africa stays in equilibrium, long term, big picture. White folks act as if a ( mostly ) lack of empires in Africa is somehow bad, as if they are bare assed savages. And? So? They survived well as tribes. Being a part of the empire in Europe resulted ultimately in a 500 year Dark Age. Africa doesn't see that kind of disruption. Sure, it didn't see that previous level of wealth, either. It is a balance.

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And what does this have to do with vendettas, revenge, vengeance and seemingly irrational feuds? Why is it more important to smite your neighbor than an invader? My theory is that an invader always goes home. Always. A nation can marshal impressive military's. It has a much harder time fielding them indefinitely. The US stayed in Vietnam at a time we had never produced so much oil, until that supply started running out. Russia stayed in Afghanistan so long it bankrupted an empire.

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How can we do the same? We aren't trying to win. That was the lesson we learned in Vietnam. Don't put most of your industrial output into a war you can never win. But one way or another, an invader always goes home. Always. But the tribe next door? There will always be there. The main fight is never with an invader. It is always about the neighbors. And if you don't fight the neighbors, but rather the invader, the neighbor waits until you are weak and attacks you. Or, better, helps the invader attack you.

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How many times throughout history did a trusting tribe try to play nice, only to be betrayed? So many times, it was finally learned that you NEVER trust a neighbor. Ever. So back to the question of why we cannot band together to fight Washington DC and its buttboy brigades the communists. Because once the federales and the commies go home, you cannot be living next to someone who can win fighting you. Why did the coastal Africans capture inland Blacks to sell to the Whites? Not their tribe, and every captured warrior weakened the neighbor.

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Why would you attack the Feds from your mountaintop? If you were weakened, then the boys from the swamp came in and attacked you once that happened. You have better farmland and the women aren't a danger of inbreeding. Would you both win the war sooner, if you joined forces? Perhaps. But eventually, the feds lose anyway. And you took no chance of weakening yourself, or of being betrayed. Look at WWII. Everyone from every US state joined together to win the war. What happened then? The states turned on each other, and the feds occupied all state capitals.

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When you join, you are eventually betrayed by those you helped. That isn't a possibility, that is a guarantee. That is why you fight each other more than the invader. A little pain now, or a lot later. What about feuds and vendettas? I think that is just a focusing mechanism. It is a way of continuing a long term conflict until the worst threats are eliminated. Since good guerrillas never attack head on, they only ambush, this might take some time. Better to trade time for safety. After all, the guerrillas didn't always have semi-auto poodle shooters with FLIR scopes. The weapons on hand demanded surprise and overwhelming force.

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We are already invaded. From the national capital, the state capital, and from immigrants. They will all go home, once there is no longer any wealth to extract. But your neighbors, the Quisling collaborators, the communists helping the invaders, those are the douchebags that will be staying. THOSE are your primary enemies. The communists have been our enemies for a long time. They are ones who support kings. If you want to stay armed, and hence a sovereign individual, that is your enemy. Whose who will disarm you. A nice old grandma who collaborates to disarm you? More dangerous than a thug from the BATF.

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Know your enemies. The short answer is, all not my tribe. The long answer is, the WORST enemies are my neighbor tribes. In today's environment, that means communists. Some neighbors are more dangerous than others. One you simply are wary of. The other deserves a lifelong vendetta against.

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