Wars Come and Go, But Warfare Endures

The Strategypage global overview is now down to an annual assessment rather than twice a year.

So you'll want to check it out. Note the problems caused by the Chinese, Russian, Iranian, Turkish, and Islamic State imperial ambitions. China is a fascist state more like Hitler's Germany than anything else. Note my thoughts on that analogy.

Thank God the European Union is just a proto-empire so far.

Part of the impression of violence is the new technology that brings violence to our TVs and phones from anywhere in real time. Of course, the key is the difference over the old technology. We are not experiencing anything new in that regard, I think.

On the bright side in the spirit of the new year and new decade, since the destruction of the Soviet Union we have fewer wars and less mayhem in general.