The Goal Is An Endless War

Random thoughts about the current state of the world while a cat sits on top of my head as I lie awake in bed during the dark hours before dawn. Happy "Independence" Day, USA.

Not all the power and money, not all the weapons and propaganda on earth can any longer hide the wound that is Palestine. The wound through which the whole world, including Israel, bleeds. --Arundhati Roy

The Goal Is An Endless War (Not A Successful War)

By C.A. Matthews

Wikileaks publisher Julian Assange once said “The goal is an endless war, not a successful war.”

Whatever did Assange mean by that? Surely, the goal of warfare is to beat your opponent(s) and achieve the results you wanted when you began the fighting, right? Otherwise, what is the point of war? It can’t simply be about endless death and destruction and if-I-can’t-have-it-neither-can-you, can it?

The endlessness is what really gets to me. Who comes up with the concept of endless war? Only persons who see a need for endless growth and endless chaos would even consider endless war as beneficial—or possibly even necessary—to their side of the conflict.

Endless growth of the economy, endless chaos of competitors, endless hoarding of wealth, endless destruction of the environment and the Earth’s ecology… Hmm, all that sounds oddly familiar.

Could it be it’s capitalists who have behind all this endless warfare in the last hundred+ years? And which “flavor” of capitalists do you think works the hardest to create the perfect circumstances for endless war? If you guessed the “military-industrial complex” you’re not wrong, but there is another one we dare not leave out, one that must keep us at each other’s throats or they’d be out of business forever.

This short video explains why the US is always at war and who is behind it all:

The death of human empathy is one of the earliest and most telling signs of a culture on the verge of barbarism. —Hannah Arendt

Why do some human beings seem to possess a complete absence of empathy? How and why did they become sociopaths? Why do they act out in such despicable and evil ways? How can the state of Israel do what it is currently doing to the Palestinian people—and get away with it? How on earth do they have any supporters, let alone government leaders and big name celebrities? Why is the act of genocide even possible?

Perhaps this post from GenXGirl explains it in a way that makes sense: https://x.com/GenXGirl1994/status/1938311248409395709

WHAT IS GENOCIDE?

Have you heard about the report showing Israel murdered 377,000 Palestinians? Let me break it down for you.

ISRAEL HAS MURDERED:

- 1 person every 2.4 minutes
- 25 people every hour
- 600 people every day
- 17,952 people every month
- 377,000 people in 21 months

Of course, the United Nations’ definition of genocide isn’t a definition of war. No matter how much Zionist apologists and Israeli spokespersons might call what they’re doing to the Palestinian people a “war,” it doesn’t qualify. There are no Palestinian armed forces, such as an army or navy or air force, to fight back against the well-armed and well-supplied IDF. The Palestinians have tried to fight off the brutal occupation of their homeland for the past 77 years essentially with only a handful of commandos and young children throwing rocks at tanks.

One person’s “terrorist” is another person’s “freedom fighter” after all. It all depends on your perspective, doesn’t it?

George Washington was considered the leader of a band of “terrorists” according to my British husband. They wouldn’t pay their taxes to the king—and they still don’t like to pay them to this very day! If you’re George Armstrong Custer, the Northern Plains tribes were all “terrorists” at the Battle of the Little Big Horn. I’m certain the Cheyenne and Lakota didn’t see themselves that way. They were simply doing whatever it took to protect their land, villages, and people in any way they could.

But those whose goal is genocide won’t let up until they’ve made it to their end game, which is the complete annihilation of another people. It’s amazing that there are any Native Americans left in the Americas when you consider the lopsidedness of the endless war that was waged upon them—and still is being waged upon them.

An Indian reservation is just another word for a concentration camp where native peoples are kept under control, poor and hungry and desperate. Segregating indigenous people away from the white settler colonizers who have stolen the natives’ best land and resources is a phenomenon known as “apartheid.” Both the US and Israel have that in common with the country of South Africa of the 20^th century.

How does any of this make sense—the endless killing, the ceaseless bombing and sniping (even during so-called “ceasefires”), and the starvation tactics?

The goal of endless war or violence isn’t to “win” anything, although the last side standing will readily take whatever it is that they want at the end of the day. The goal is to simply keep killing, bombing, and disposing of one person at at time until another people’s culture has been totally eliminated or so marginalized that it quietly fades away in time. There’s less competition for natural resources that way.

Simply put, it’s the Israelis’ goal to kill one person every 2.4 minutes, 25 people every hour, 600 people every day, 17,952 people every month, 377,000 people every 21 months… Until there are no Palestinians left to kill.

This short film produced by the Irish rap group Kneecap gives some of the details: https://stopthegenocide.info/

White European settlers/colonizers didn’t totally succeed in their endless war against Native Americans and African descendants of slaves, but that doesn’t mean they haven’t given up trying. Just look at your TikTok, Instagram, or X feed on any given day for videos of white cops beating up on people of color, shooting and killing twelve-year-olds with toy guns playing in the park or innocent Black women asleep in their apartments.

Once everyone you don’t like has been wiped out, it’s game over, right? No more need to keep controlling and killing and starving and bombing? Don’t be so sure. There’s always a new playground to play on, new kids on the block to be rid of. The killers move on to bomb their next target. But who will that next victim be?

From an X post by Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

Iran just became the 8th Muslim-majority country that the US has bombed in the last 15 years, from Obama to Trump to Biden to Trump:

1) Afghanistan
2) Iraq
3) Syria
4) Libya
5) Somalia
6) Pakistan
7) Yemen
8) Iran

Can you guess who the next two victims will be? If you watched the video above on why the US is always at war, I bet you can figure it out. Remember—we gotta keep that petrodollar strong!

Without the heart and the gut we’re genius-level reptiles, and genius-level reptiles are running the world right now. —Holocaust survivor Dr. Gabor Maté.

We’re living in a world that is being run by reptiles, individuals without a heart for others. The end result is that we have leaders who think endless war is the goal, not something to avoid at all costs. They don’t care about the health, safety, and welfare of the poor and struggling. They see them as so much cannon fodder or cogs in the factory machines or mules pulling the plows. We’re never equals with the reptile rulers—we’re always “less than” our reptilian overlords.

And yet, we’re more than they’ll ever be. We still have hearts and souls and empathy and a conscience. Those are things that money can’t buy and endless war and genocide can never completely kill off. Well, not unless we let them buy our souls or consciences off us, bury them under the dirt of their endless greed and hate.

We can’t let them do it. We just can’t. The goal posts must be torn down. The endless war must be stopped. The reptiles locked up in their cages.

But how? It seems the endless warriors are never going to let up, and we’re just the 99% of the world’s population… Can it be that our sheer numbers and tenacity are our weapons?

Ask Kneecap and the activists of Palestine Action in the UK. They’re speaking up and acting out in loud and unforgettable ways in spite of the UK government writing new laws that could lock them up for 14 years or more. They are our examples to follow. We don’t shut down and we never shut up until the endless wars are stopped. Forever.

Our goal should be endless empathy and solidarity with our fellow workers. Nothing less will be considered successful.

Non-Endless War Links To Consider

What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July? https://teachingamericanhistory.org/document/what-to-the-slave-is-the-fourth-of-july-2/

Just six years that the US hasn't been involved in a foreign war since independence in 1776- George Galloway youtu.be/RmBw9kmY-g0?si=DyKxHFU9MFn2XO-m

Long, but fascinating and info-packed videos featuring Jeffrey Sachs worth watching (even if the topics are much broader than the titles suggest):

Sachs 'UNCOVERS' Jaw-Dropping Israeli-American Plot Against Iran | Israel War youtube.com/live/Thbfi8j43lI

Sachs Shocking Reveal: U.S.-Israel ‘War Plot’ Against Iran In His Speech youtube.com/live/Q17pvelTWrw

Starvation and Profiteering in Gaza (w/ Francesca Albanese) | The Chris Hedges Report https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/starvation-and-profiteering-in-gaza

Opioids Found in Food Aid: A Weapon Against Gaza’s Population Exposed https://www.telesurenglish.net/opioids-found-in-food-aid-a-weapon-against-gazas-population-exposed/

Harvard-linked study finds Israel ‘disappeared’ nearly 400,000 Palestinians in Gaza, half of them children: https://thecradle.co/articles-id/31546

Children Bear Brunt of Gaza Genocide – 23% of Amputations, 70% of Burns https://www.palestinechronicle.com/children-bear-brunt-of-gaza-genocide-23-of-amputations-70-of-burns/

'It's a Killing Field': IDF Soldiers Ordered to Shoot Deliberately at Unarmed Gazans Waiting for Humanitarian Aid https://archive.is/37RtH#selection-211.0-211.113

Gaza’s Hunger Games https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/gazas-hunger-games

Shocking Israeli report: Killing deemed acceptable as contractors paid $1,500 for each home demolished in Gaza https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20250630-shocking-israeli-report-killing-deemed-acceptable-as-contractors-paid-1500-for-each-home-demolished-in-gaza/

Why Limit Iranian Enrichment Peacefully When You Can Bomb Them Instead? https://consortiumnews.com/2025/06/24/why-limit-iranian-enrichment-peacefully-when-you-can-bomb-them-instead/

Report: Initial US Intelligence Assessment Says US Didn’t Destroy Iran’s Nuclear Sites https://news.antiwar.com/2025/06/24/report-initial-us-intelligence-assessment-says-us-didnt-destroy-irans-nuclear-sites/

Could Iran’s Extremely Rare Mineral Discovery Be Another Incentive for US-Israel War? https://insidetelecom.com/iran-discovers-most-rare-minerals-in-the-world/

Iran’s deputy FM demands reparations from US over attacks on nuclear sites https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2025/06/25/750128/iran-deputy-fm-demands-reparations-us-attacks-nuclear-sites

How one Powerful Company controlled Iran | History of Western Intervention in Iran youtu.be/3MBzCTbvrT4?si=_gSQj6BK8BRnkm4y

Companies of the Military-Industrial Complex https://www.militaryindustrialcomplex.com/companies.php

Take your money out of the prison-industrial complex--Prison Free Funds https://prisonfreefunds.org/companies

Where Do We Go From Here? (A manifesto for the left) https://www.acaciamag.com/issue-03/where-do-we-go-from-here

What Do You Say? (a poem) https://dianeengelhardt.substack.com/p/what-do-you-say

The Failson and the Flag https://jacobin.com/2025/06/reza-pahlavi-iran-israel-intervention

Watch Crowd CHANT and HUMILIATE KEIR STARMER At KNEECAP | Glastonbury youtu.be/ddSrJ8ggVV8?si=ufrkkIcbNgy1uTkl

Will “terrorist” ban stop Palestine Action? https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/asa-winstanley/will-terrorist-ban-stop-palestine-action

Leaked Chats Show Pro-Israel Extremist Group Betar Organizing Street Confrontations https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/betar-protests-zionism-fascism-palestine

Practice Small, Daily Acts Of Sabotage Against The Imperial Machine https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/practice-small-daily-acts-of-sabotage

ICE Set to Arrest a Record 35,000 Immigrants in June, Daily Quotas are Political - Not Practical https://austinkocher.substack.com/p/ice-set-to-arrest-a-record-35000

ICE Is Using a New Facial Recognition App to Identify People, Leaked Emails Show https://www.404media.co/ice-is-using-a-new-facial-recognition-app-to-identify-people-leaked-emails-show/

Medicaid Defenders in Wheelchairs Arrested Ahead of Senate Vote on 'Betrayal of a Bill' https://www.commondreams.org/news/wheelchair-protesters-arrested

DHS Ends TPS for Haitians, State Department Maintains Level 4 Travel Warning https://austinkocher.substack.com/p/dhs-ends-tps-for-haitians-state-department

Kristi Noem Secretly Took a Cut of Political Donations https://www.propublica.org/article/kristi-noem-political-donations-income-dark-money-dhs-ethics

Global elite gain $33.9 trillion as poverty fight collapses, Oxfam warns ahead of global summit https://www.nationofchange.org/2025/06/26/global-elite-gain-33-9-trillion-as-poverty-fight-collapses-oxfam-warns-ahead-of-global-summit/

The Problem with Zohran Mamdani https://elevendemands.substack.com/p/the-problem-with-zohran-mamdani

The worst Nobel Peace Prizes ever awarded https://bigthink.com/the-past/worst-nobel-peace-prizes/

Toxic Algal Blooms Should Not Be the New Normal https://greatlakes.org/2025/06/toxic-algal-blooms-should-not-be-the-new-normal/

Antibiotic Resistance, Cultivated Meat, and Our Health https://nutritionfacts.org/blog/antibiotic-resistance-cultivated-meat-and-our-health/