by Yagyah Adams
The agenda of war is multifaceted and is usually dictated by the desires of a wealthy elite.
War has little to do with improving the overall human condition for the masses and more to do with the transfer of wealth/ power/authority/influence etc from one group of elites to another.
For example, Russia, the former Soviet Union, was not a threat to the US/Europe, but it was necessary to “make Russia a threat” so those who governed the US/Europe could maintain power/wealth and have someone else to blame for whatever goes wrong, while they misrule/ abuse people globally.
Let’s explain.
The Soviet Union was ruined after it invaded Afghanistan, which drained the Soviet economy. It was a perfect war of attrition.
Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin, who preceded Vladimir Putin, handed the Soviet Union to the West as the Soviets were bankrupt and people were starving.
Instead of helping and upgrading civil society in Russia, the US/ Europe helped a billionaire class to plunder Soviet resources and transfer the wealth to London and New York.
Vladimir Putin inherited a humiliated/hungry and broken Russian peasantry as the wealthy elite lived in opulence elsewhere.
Also, centuries ago, the Knights Templars, a Crusader Order, shattered Islamic/Muslim resistance in the Holy Land and Middle East. When they were recalled by the Catholic Pope, the Templars realised they would lose their historic privilege (no tax and free land holdings).
The Templars re-armed and trained a secret Nizari Ismaili Shia sect to assassinate Christian leaders with drama and flair which created great chaos. The word assassination comes from the sect the Assassin’s. The Pope yielded and the Knight Templars were restored to manage the chaos they created for wealth.
Similarly, the State of Israel is a historical fabrication and was “created out of thin air” when the British colonial authority sold Israel to Lord Rothschild, who paid for British losses against the Nazi Adolf Hitler. The British had no authority whatsoever to sell land they did not own as the land was fully inhabited by an indigenous Palestinian people for at least 5 000 years.
The wealthy have and will continue to wage war for material gain. The wealthy use the poor to fight each other. This has several effects. For example, millions of poor are killed so they pose less of a threat to the ruling elite. The rape/plunder/ ruin of the poor classes also gives the wealthy great pleasure.
While the lesser classes are inspired by fake words like freedom/ liberty and kill each other, the wealthy increase the costs of food/ petrol/taxes/electricity etc. The lesser classes are trained to hate the religion/culture/ethnicity of others so they remain divided, unable to identify their collective enemy.
Those who hate others for their religion/race/ethnicity etc need to examine themselves because they are fulfilling the agenda of a wealthy elite that is deeply evil and ungodly.
* Cllr Yagyah Adams, Cape Muslim Congress.
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