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"Britain/America needs to retaliate against Russia/Iraq/Afghanistan/insert some other bogeyman here".

Translation: "We're going to mass murder thousands, if not millions, of innocent men, women and children on the other side of the world who pose no threat to you whatsoever."

The 'Russians', the 'Vietnamese', the 'Iraqis', or some other bogeyman the ruling class is hell bent on demonising, are not your enemy. The enemy is, and always has been, *the ruling class*. The enemy is not located in some faraway land, or in some hidden, spooky cave in the middle east. They are entrenched in the houses of parliament and the white house. The enemy is already firmly inside the gate.

Who are the ruling class? The politicians, their political advisers, and the bankers. Maybe there are some otherworldly forces involved, too. Who the f-ck knows? The point is, the average Russian, or Iraqi, has no quarrel with you. The average Russian/Iraqi/Afghani wants to be left alone and put food on their table and live a dignified, peaceful life. *Just like you*.

*“Can anything be more ridiculous than that a man should have the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of the water, and because his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have none with him?”* - Blaise Pascal

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If Theresa May, Donald Trump, or any of these warmongering bloodthirsty psychopaths in power want war and mass bloodshed, they can be the first on the frontlines. Them, and their families. If these bastards want war, they can send their children to be sacrificed first. How about that?

Of course, such a proposition is absurd, because the control freaks in power are *cowards*. 

It is up to us, the human beings with an actual conscience, to put an end to this horror once and for all. We can not, in this nuclear age, flirt with a third world war. The psychopaths in power, who regularly instigate wars that they would never have the courage to participate in themselves, quite literally have their fingers on the buttons of nuclear warheads all around the world. This isn't just a dangerous game we're playing; it's suicidal. Are we willing to commit collective suicide because we don't have the courage to say NO to the psychopathic 'elite'?

I hope not. Our fate as a species rests upon our ability to develop the courage and wisdom to say **NO** to those in power, for we are the masters of our own destiny.