The world was, two hundred and fifty years ago, gifted a great country, the United States, US. The date was July 4, 1776; the main event was its Declaration of Independence from Mother Britain. The latter is a small country that went to war with most of humanity, so much that it has been at war with 171 of the current 193 countries in the United Nations. The twenty-two countries that escaped bloody British conflicts were mainly French colonies and the Vatican.
The US inherited a war DNA from Britain. This is apparent in the fact that of its 250 years since independence, it has been at war or in armed conflicts for 230 years. In this past quarter of a millennium, it has been engaged in over 500 military interventions; that is an average of two active conflicts annually. The US baby-marriage with armed conflicts indicates a hereditary war economy. It seems to have an establishment that rejoices at the approach of war. I am not sure the rhetoric of its current President to annihilate other peoples has ever been heard before in human history. For instance, in April 2026 he told Iran that unless it reopened the Strait of Hormuz immediately: “A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.” A few days before, he had threatened he would be “blasting Iran into oblivion … back to the Stone Ages!!!” On Easter morning, 2026, he told Iranians: “Open the F——-in’ Strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell.”
