— EM Burlingame - 蒲 奕 言 (@EMBurlingame) January 22, 2026\
Lord Rothbury's Thoughts: The Currency.
Billionaire Warlords: Why the Future Is Medieval.
2:16. The vast majority of states in the world are are either regimes hiding inside the states or just outright dumpster fires. What we're going to see in the future is those who have wealth and political power who can also hire their own private armies, now become superpowers. The world used to wage a lot of private war in military history. In fact, most of military history is privatized. Mercenaries have always been a major component of war. What happens when you privatize war is that now military strategies blend with business ones and this puts us at risk because our 4- Star Generals who are in charge of our military and our policymakers are not prepared for that type of warfare. So Mercenaries were around for millennia mercenaries have been around forever and it's an anomalous in history that 150 years ago they sort of went away and why that is still a mystery people say well after the 30 years war or after the piece of West Folly of 1648 where mercenaries around among both rulers and rules were tired of them and rulers and kings started to invest in their own standing armies which is very expensive. Mercenaries are cheaper than standing armies just like it's it's cheaper to rent than to own and Country start to invest in large National militaries there are reasons for that some of it was technological some of it was political but they monopolize the market for force. Over the next several hundred years they pushed out Mercenaries they went underground by 1850 and we saw them pop up around them the 1950s and 1960s in Africa during Wars of decolonization but they were always in the shadows now they're returning and they're up front whether it's black water for the United States of America or the Wagner group for Russia which is a powerful mercenary Corporation or executive outcomes in South Africa in the 1990s. We're saying mercenaries come out of the Shadows and what can put them back in the shadows only one thing can do that if all the nations of the world got together and banned it together as they did the 1600s 1700 and said no more mercenaries, which I think world peace is easier
No comments:
Post a Comment