War is not funded overtly, but rather discretely and stealthily through an array of macroeconomic looting. A war is first waged against its own people in the form of economic initiatives and later against a foreign threat through military action. Offensive militarization requires dipping into the homeland honeypot, almost always alongside a healthy combination of media propaganda which simultaneously moves the population towards a mindset of fear and/or seduces them into believing that this action is heroic and patriotic. Because of this, it then becomes a social taboo to not be fearful of the consequences of external threat (you are aloof) and it also becomes taboo not to want to fight (you are a coward). The state does not serve to save the people from catastrophe, nor does it exist to revitalize the patriotic spirit of a nation, it cares nothing of the subjects it governs. It exists to advance the agenda of the conspiring exclusive who issue the orders from the very beginning.
There is no glory in fighting violent battles and there exists no fear but our own self-imposed limitation. The entire facade is an illusion; an act of smoke and mirrors.
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