Showing posts with label Heraclitus. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Heraclitus. Show all posts
Tuesday, November 11, 2025

40 million dead and wounded, the equivalent of 177 million in 2023

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 Ukraine war casualties to date are estimated at 1.5 million, 1.1 million of which are Russian.
Monday, March 10, 2025

War is the father of everything awful

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     War is the father of debt, and of the Navy Seal barbarians in Congress who know how to destroy but not how to build: ...  a lethal band...
Monday, September 20, 2021

Just to be clear, I'm pro-war

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War is the father of all and the king of all; and some he has made gods and some men, some bond and some free. Πόλεμος πάντων μὲν πατήρ ἐστι...
Sunday, November 11, 2018

Armistice Day 1918-2018

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Πόλεμος πάντων μὲν πατήρ ἐστι πάντων δὲ βασιλεύς
Friday, March 23, 2018

Like all the other Baby Boom presidents Trump has squandered his power and opportunities

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And his closest enemies sat quietly by and let him do so, convincing him that war is the father of everything. Winning means you have ...
Monday, May 8, 2017

War is the father of everything

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Saturday, May 21, 2016

Goodbye libertarian moment, we hardly knew thee: "Man has a proclivity for safety, not liberty"

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James E. Miller at Takimag, here : Man has a proclivity for safety, not liberty. Human history is littered with war after war, conflic...
Thursday, December 25, 2014

If Obama had wanted to "rescue" the economy in 2009, he should have ramped-up the wars as he's doing now

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If Obama had really wanted to rescue the economy in 2009, he would have ramped up dramatically the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan instead of...
Tuesday, March 4, 2014

S&P500 Vaults 14 Points Above The Last High One Day After Crimean Invasion By Russia

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War is the father of everything.
Thursday, January 14, 2010

How Did The Greatest Generation Pare Down Debt? It Didn't

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John Waggoner at USA TODAY reminds us that war is the father of everything : The last time the nation's debt was this big compared with ...
Sunday, December 20, 2009

Aristotle, On Tyranny

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Now a tyranny is a monarchy where the good of one man only is the object of government, an oligarchy considers only the rich, and a democrac...
Tuesday, November 3, 2009

War is the Father of Everything

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                      From the very long term perspective, the spending on World War II which supposedly got us out of the Great Depression ...