Writing in the midst of the Great War (World War I), Bertrand Russell observes...
It is impossible that the peace of the
world should be preserved while nations are
liable to the mood in which Germany entered
upon the war unless, indeed, one nation were
so obviously stronger than all others combined
as to make war unnecessary for that one and
hopeless for all the others.
Principles of Social Reconstruction. 1916, Chapter III, "War as an Institution," Pg. 98.
What he describes here is what the American military would become, dwarfing all others in the post-Cold War era. This state of affairs however has proven hardly conducive towards achieving a lasting peace. Russell suspected as much, and so he suggests another solution...
Assuming that war is not ended by one State
conquering all the others, the only way in
which it can be permanently ended is by a
world-federation. So long as there are many
sovereign States, each with its own Army, there
can be no security that there will not be war.
There will have to be in the world only one
Army and one Navy before there will be any
reason to think that wars have ceased. This
means that, so far as the military functions
of the State are concerned, there will be only
one State, which will be world -wide.
Ibid, Pg. 101.
How might this be brought about? Not by a global Army or Navy, but by a global Air Force, or more specifically, a global drone program. Today a message was published on the blog "Ulsterman" by one "Wall Street Insider" whose identity (and whose authenticity) is unknown. This message regardless strikes as quite perceptive of the direction towards which globalist policy appears to be perilously heading...
There is apparently a program either being prepared, or already ready for full implementation, that will have the use of drones as part of some form of globalized agreement between nations. It is my understanding the use of these drones for border patrol purposes is actually a test lab for the program. An American company has just completed a long range drone product that will allow these devices to run for weeks at a time covering vast distances. This product is being shopped now. It is no accident this situation has evolved under this particular president. Place the events surrounding the use of drones by this administration with the president’s repeated overtures to the Russian government. While -name deleted- provided you a shocking assessment of Obama’s personal obsession with drones, it is this technology’s critical use as part of a far wider globalization plan that is the true and overriding threat here. The military continues to grapple with the moral implications of what this administration is pushing them to do, and so as the administration grows impatient with the military component of the plan, it now proceeds in haste to utilize these drones as part of a nationwide law enforcement program. That program though will, if they succeed, extend far beyond the borders of the United States, and in that process, their globalization plan will be greatly enhanced. While this description I give you now sounds perhaps far fetched, I assure you it is not. This plan, this “enhancement”, has been moving forward for decades. It is now being accelerated...
Can we expect a lasting peace should this scheme come to full fruition? Hardly. It will only bring into implementation a state of affairs that Russell's chapter title describes: War as an Institution. Not as the exception, as the last resort of "politics by other means," but as the rule - a permanent return to Hobbes' bellum omnium contra omnes, or perhaps to say it more accurately, bellum imperium contra omnes.
