Casus belli

It has to swim forwards, otherwise it dies.

And that means that the use of the militias will immediately create another Casus Belli.

Now, you know, that may be against Saudi Arabia, but if we see Saudi Arabia going down, It's impossible to imagine that the international community will not come to Saudi Arabia's defense.

And indeed, you know, the British have already sent typhoon aircraft to Saudi Arabia to defend the kingdom.

We'll see how this develops.

Though in the arsenal of do we want to expand this war, Russia has more than enough Casus Bellis to strike just about anything in Central and Eastern Europe.

Western Europe, for that matter, too.

I mean, the Europeans, NATO has been salami slicing itself into Russia for the entirety of this war, right? That whole time, from one thing to the next.

You want to keep other empires on your side as much as possible.

And a good way to do that is to wait until you have a casus belli with someone.

Now, casus belli means a cause of war.

And what that means is they have done something to you that entitles you to a righteous reaction.

And that means that the other players, the other empires will say, well, okay, you went to war with this guy, but he kind of deserved it.

He was a, you know, he was a bit of a meaner guy.

So now there are a number of casus bellis that you can find.

But one of my favorites is when they steal one of your technologies and are identified as the thief there.

I mean, the Nazis, I hate to keep going back to this, but that is my genetic heritage.

You know, when they had their Casus Belli, the Reichstag fire, they went and locked up the communists, right? They locked up their political opponents.

you know, an election that's just laden with fraud is going to be the Reichstag fire.

We have proof and they're going to lock up a whole bunch of the other people.

So the Greek government says, you know, the law of the sea gives us the right to extend our territorial waters to 12 miles.

The Turks who haven't signed that deal, that law of the sea piece of international legislation, they say, well, if you do that, it's Casus Belli.

And, you know, this is convenient.

A cause of war.

Let's not kid ourselves.

Because you wanted the Casus Belli.

You needed to attack something that would force the United States into a Casus Belli per our military doctrine.

That's what that was.

I think it was going to be timed with, I still say that, I think it was going to be timed with the first Monday in October, which just passed.

Mm hmm.

I think they should do a historically realistic version of The Last Samurai, but still with Tom Cruise's character, where the Ken Watanabe character is just ranting about his plan to be sent to Korea as an invasion force so that he will then get himself assassinated as Casus Belli for a full war.

Yeah.

Cause that's like the guy that that character is based on wanted to do.