Oddbean

So you can't be a bitcoiner, wanting sound money and to rid the government of their fiat, and be OK with war and countries fighting? I am completely ok with it, but they should do it via war bonds or taxation, not the money printer.

Approving of mass murder driven by the greed of the investors in the Military Industrial Complex would not be possible without massive money printing to fuel the war machine. The world on a real money standard that can't be inflated like gold or bitcoin makes war almost impossible and financial cooperation between countries that used to be "enemies" likely.

I literally didn't say any of that. In fact the opposite. But guess what, if a person, state, country gets attacked and threatened to be extinguished, they are free to absolutely destroy their opponent. It's called life.

Yah, you are doing it again. What spin or narrative do you have in mind when thinking about this? Say for example I am Israel and have used Gaza as a concentration camp to contain Palestinians for 40 years to the point where they finally have had enough repression and rebel against it. Do I as Israel have the right to commit cultural genocide against thousands of innocent civilians including women and children because I can't properly engage Hamas? Is that what you mean? Or did you intend to reference Israel bombing an Iranian embassy in Syria and the subsequent retaliation by Iran?

Of course they have the right to try. It is literally how the world is formed. Wars have been fought and lost for millenia. Today's wars are actually far less deadly than previous centuries. You could argue that Oct 7 was the fault of Israel. OK, cool. I would disagree, but either way it, Gaza pays the price. Elections and allowing Hamas to build up have consequences for both sides. But gaza has nothing to do with Iran attempting to bomb a country and Israel's retaliation.

I'm not much for beating dead horses but will say that you have a light grasp of current events. Israhell has carried out multiple assassinations against Iranian citizens both in Iran and Syria for years and then finally bombed close to the Iranian embassy in Syria, so you will give them a pass for that? And there certainly is a connection between the Gaza invasion and Iranian retribution. Israhell thinks it is the big dog in the middle ease because it has had the backing of the collective West which has now been all but tapped out due to the massive influx of fake money and weapons to Ukraine. Iran's well constructed missile and drone attack was only a feinting action designed to discover and deplete Israeli defenses, in which Iran was successful. Israhell loses a war of attrition. Anyway you have wandered off point, which was that hard money will decrease wars and bring peace. End of story.