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The Book of Reckoning's avatar

It is an interesting time. Sadly, the US chest thumping to increase allied spending to 5% GDP is in contrast to a new and affordable military. Drones. It bcs clear what this is a moment of great upheaval in the world order.

The new world order needs a solid step backward. Pause. Look at the DSRB or the “global defence bank” being structured by NATO and domiciled in Ottawa. It has the capacity to turn the war amongst ideological strongmen, into a defence of the planet from humanity. The real war that threatens to end mankind’s short “reign” on earth.

Spend the Defence, Security and Resilience Banks collected 5% annual of NATO nations GDP (preposterous) on defending the planet from industry, and the it all makes sense. Do it the way it reads, and all the politicians attached should face the same fate as Mussolini. For they are dooming our children’s generation too.

The Vertical Dispatch's avatar

Brother — you've put your finger on the exact severance. A 5% target poured into legacy hardware while the actual revolution in war is happening at the price of a drone — that's the symbol (the spending number) cut loose from the referent (real security). You're reading it right.

And the DSRB turn is the sharp part. The instrument exists — the charter's negotiated, Canada's the host, the capital is being mobilized as we speak. The only question is what it's pointed at. Capital at that scale aimed at defending the planet from the threats that actually end us — that's a Stratum-VII thought, the long-horizon move, and you're right that it would suddenly "all make sense." The bank is real. The aim is the whole argument.

On the last line — I'll meet the grief in it, because dooming our children's generation is the right thing to be in a rage about. But I can't follow it to the gallows. The fate-of-Mussolini answer is the ego's answer, and it only ever rebuilds the thing it overthrew — the next strongman, the next severance, the same wheel. The remedy for a severed symbol isn't a scaffold; it's to reconnect it — to name the aim so plainly that the capital can't be spent any other way without everyone seeing it. Reveal it. Don't avenge it. That's the slower road, and it's the only one that doesn't doom the next generation in a different costume.

Pause, look, redirect — yes. Hold the line on how, and the vision holds. 🕯️

The Vertical Dispatch's avatar

Thank you for sharing

The Book of Reckoning's avatar

I’m only human after all. And politicians have a long legacy of bad governance leading civilization to the edge. The Mussolini reference is a literary device meant to menace not direct.

If this fund is used to purchase expensive equipment that ages in place, then it threatens the global economy that is fast running out of low hanging fruit when it comes to mineral deposits.

5% of 20 wealth industrialized nations competing unnecessarily with open markets for dwindling assets is yet another warning sign of political failure. Assuming they have thought this through, they must be banking on the resilience arm of the bank.

They get this wrong they won’t have to swing like Mussolini, the earth will remove the species, as we will have tripped Natures abort codes, and intellect in the Milky Way will be stillborn. C’est La vie …