There has rarely, if ever, been a single year America was not officially at war with someone. Whenever we stop fighting in one place, we just start fighting somewhere else -- Biden pulls out of Afghanistan and immediately attacks Russia -- Trump pulls out of Yemen and goes after Iran instead. There's no love of peace in America, only a cynical desire to sequence wars so we're always at the advantage against our lonely and isolated opponents.
The history of other nations proves this is not a necessity. Most of the world has a war once a century or so. Some countries around the world have proven their ability to avoid wars for five hundred years running. It's amazing how those who have a peaceful foreign policy and a benevolent domestic policy that doesn't try to oppress or murder its own people can be left alone entirely. Self-defense is always invoked to justify all these wars, but all these other countries haven't been attacked and they aren't at war, so clearly self-defense is not the actual reason.
The actual reason is America has never faced the consequences of losing a war. Like entitled, spoiled brats, they keep acting out because they can get away with it. Who doesn't like to mercilessly slaughter their enemies or make illogical demands that everything go their way? If one could get away with it, of course they'd do it. It's the same way female virtue has plummeted to zero in modern history. Now that they can get away with infidelity, serial monogamy, illegitimate children, abortion, divorce, a child-free life, etc., it turns out they're more than happy to do so. They never had any innate desire to be virtuous, just as no nation has an innate impulse to be peaceful. The only reason anyone ever behaves is the negative consequences that others impose on them when they misbehave.
America is too big and powerful for its own good. By becoming this massive economic force with this giant population and one of the two largest nuclear arsenals on Earth, we feel entitled to wander the Earth and kill and destroy and pillage whatever we please, whenever we please, for any reason we please. The only way this stops is if the whole world, every little country, becomes a nuclear power which can deter America, or the other nuclear powers agree to use their nuclear weapons to defend small countries from American aggression. One or the other must occur for the world to know peace. Without this America will keep attacking random people forever. It's all game theory.
It was extremely stupid of Iran to antagonize America by enriching uranium while simultaneously not building a nuclear bomb with said uranium. That's the worst of all worlds. They could have not enriched uranium and thus not provided a justification for being attacked, or they could have made bombs and deterred attack, but instead they chose to be buffoons. It's hard to feel any pity for such stupid people. Moving forward, using Iran as an example, I hope every little country on Earth realizes it's time to race for actual nuclear weapons, not piddle around with 'civilian nuclear power.' Once the whole world has nukes then, and only then, the mad dog will be put back on its leash.
I would go so far as to say that every nation on Earth that doesn't have a defense pact with a nuclear nation, or have nukes of its own, should simply be erased from the world map and annexed by someone who does have one of these two things. There should be nobody left on Earth vulnerable to aggression again. That is the recipe for world peace. Until this new policy is enacted there will never be peace. And I'm thoroughly sick of America's warmongering, so I encourage people to enact this plan forthwith.
Meanwhile, I finished Shizuru's route in Noble Works and moved on to Sena's, the cute live-in maid. Sena is nice and pretty, but she doesn't have the strength of character I want in a person. Whether male or female, a dithering, weak heart that doesn't show fortitude is a massive turn-off. As a result my progress in the game has been rather slow. Sadly I doubt the two girls after Sena will be any better, so Noble Works is bordering on the category of 'chore' these days.
As for my music hall of fame, I've promoted 'flowers' from Fate/Grand Order and 'Clear Weather After the Rain' from Little Busters! to 5-star, demoting 'buried in the snow' from FF7 and 'singing mountain' from Chrono Trigger to make room. As usual it's vocals replacing instrumentals. Despite all my efforts instrumentals are still the slight majority of songs in my 5-star list, just showing I still have a ways to go. Ami's personal song was redistributed to 'Vanilla Salt,' a Toradora theme for a Toradora character, which makes a lot more sense. Io's personal theme (the girl from Dal Segno) was redistributed to 'Long Long Spell,' an amazing song by Jun Maeda and Heaven Burns Red if you ignore its weak spots.
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