Observations about the world, part four

Photograph of the Atlas globe

Are there fewer wars in modern times?
Sunday – October 12, 2025

The short answer is yes, but the long answer is as usual more complicated. There are indeed fewer wars between states (interstate wars), but there are likely more wars within states (intrastate wars, i.e. civil wars), and civil wars are often more brutal and deadly than interstate wars, perhaps with the exception of the world wars, but it should be noted that those wars didn't directly kill every casualty; a lot of people perished indirectly in WWII in particular due to the political mass mobilization of hatred in that war. But generally it does seem to be the case that the political mobilization of hatred is somewhat more acute, though on a far smaller scale, during civil wars, and often a civil war can be fought down to the street level. Really, a civil war is when the societal stratification has become so acute and inflamed that violence inevitably has to erupt, and this has surely been the case with most intrastate wars during the last previous decades. Indeed, during the post war period it seems to me that interstate wars are rather uncommon, and this comes down to the fact that the two superpowers (the United States and the Soviet Union) would often meddle in the affairs of smaller states and both of those powers also had nuclear capability, which seems to have prevented a large scale and global conflagration. The fact that nuclear weapons have prevented another major conflagration is often an overlooked fact. This also goes to the stupid assumptions made by the proponents of the humanist axiom: that having a world without nuclear weapons would somehow ensure peace, prosperity, and stability. I can almost guarantee that a world without nuclear weapons would do the very opposite: it would release all that tension that exists between the western world and the rest of the world and invariably what would amount to a WWIII would soon follow. The history of man has taught us that all of these fantastical notions of a loving brotherhood of man is nonsense for no such thing has ever existed in the history of man and no such thing will likely exist in the history of man. If there is anything men have been good at since the dawn of this species, it has been to murder, on a massive scale, their so-called fellow men with great diligence and fortitude, and what might seem even more scarier is that most men that have partaken in this seemingly rude history of murder and destruction seem to actually have enjoyed themselves quite a bit; this is another fact about man that greatly challenges the universal assertions of the humanist axiom that all men are fundamentally equal and fundamentally good in their equal status. Nothing can be shown by history to be further from the truth.

    Why then has it become so fancy and common for men to pretend that the reality of the world shows that they and other men are fundamentally good? Well, for the proponents of the liberal paradigm nothing else can be the case, or rather nothing else can be allowed to be the case. See, when modern men fall for their own self idolatry, they essentially choose to replace reality, the constraints and the laws of nature, with their own ideas, with their own ideology, and this is perhaps the paramount achievement by modern civilization: the ability to become so far removed from the boundaries of the world and the universe that one can fall for all the fancy yet empty platitudes in the world. See, it's also the case that men, particularly bourgeois men, fancy themselves better than those men that are closer to the Earth, especially when they are able to cast out without effort all of these falsehoods, always in the name of humanism.

    So while there are less wars between states, I don't know that the claim that there are less wars overall can stand. Even if there are less wars in the modern world, consider how wars have evolved and changed throughout time: in the modern world there is not warrior class to fight the war, there are no honorable ways in which wars are being fought, and finally entire civilizations are expected to deplete themselves for the perpetuation of the materialist order, for there is really no such thing as an honorable peace anymore; indeed wars aren't even declared anymore. Also, there are wars all around you in the modern world, but those wars are not fought by men in the material domain, those wars are fought by the serpent through spiritual warfare, never forget that.

Reginald Drax – October 12, 2025.