Investing in the past

September 25, 2025

Like Britain and the US, we continue to exhibit multiple signs of looking wistfully to an imagined past and seeking to repeat it, rather than looking to a future which will we know will be different from that past. Nowhere is this more evident than in the one area in which we claim expertise – making war!!

As we hollow out our economies and turn them into heaven for our speculative class, we also continue to plan for a repetition of our past colonial successes. China and Russia are the objects of that desire for more glorious colonialism. The problem is that the world has changed irretrievably and we are repeating the mistakes of past empires in believing our own propaganda that all we need to do is arm ourselves, repeat the past and all will be good, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary.

Every military war game the US has conducted regarding China, shows China winning, but we ignore that! Whether we waste trillions more in the belief that our actions will lead to inevitable victory will make no difference to the inevitable outcome. Lacking brains, we will do it anyway!