I’m having a time hashing out some thoughts about American society and I figured I’d toss them out over here.

Namely, I’m starting to think that military adventurism is actually necessary and preferable to how things go in our country during peacetime, at least in the current era.

The problem is that when there isn’t an external enemy to fight, all of the people and resources who’d be off making foreigners miserable are turned towards controlling our domestic population.

We saw this with the winding down of the Global War on Terror, where the technology developed for the fights in places like Iraq were tinkered with and then sold to police departments and federal agencies.

At the same time, defense procurement gets far and bloated because rather than develop platforms designed to defeat a specific enemy, the Pentagon writes blank checks to contractors to build stuff that can defeat ANY enemy.

Similarly, it seems preferable to send the young men who yearn for adventure and to put their lives at risk somewhere else, rather than have them looking for it while wearing a police uniform on the streets of America’s cities.

Obviously, many people in this group will voice their preference for an elimination of the military, police and the state and I share your sympathies, but much like Malice’s polls on X, the choice you want usually isn’t available at the moment, nor does it appear likely to be showing up in the coming years.

Anyway, this is largely a hypothesis at this point rather than some kind of theory I’m married to, but I just thought I’d toss it out to the crowd.