The war in Ukraine is an example of this: It is to the advantage of the major players on both “sides” to keep the war going on for as long as possible, while keeping the heads of the mafias (Obama, Putin) in their places of power. Biden, and now Harris (both obvious puppets, whose puppeteer is Obama) have always talked about keeping Ukraine “in the fight” – but not winning the war. Doing the latter means the game ends and the opportunities for both mafias to suck money out of the populations on which they are parasites ends as well – in Russia, by outright theft (Shoigu just won top honors in this competition), and in America/the “West” by fraud (those $1000 toilet seats and trillion dollar “defense” budgets – with “national security” to cover up the crime ). War is the ultimate consumer economy – materiel and troops are consumed and destroyed, producing a need to supply more, which is a way to increase profits, and decrease the number of people in the lower classes who can suck up government money – or keep their own. As General Smedley Butler (USMC – Uncle Sam’s Misguided Children) once said, “War is a racket” – https://ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.pdf – nearly a century ago, and it’s still true. Putin does still have competent generals to head things up that he hasn’t outright killed like Prigozhin and Utkin – Popov and Strelkov are in jail, someplace, and Surovikin is wandering around in the wilds of Africa – but they’d finish the war and the carnival of greed, theft, and fraud, and that just can’t be allowed to happen… He did shitcan Gerasimov, the incompetence just became too blatant and out in the open – and so Putin is anxiously casting about for “generals” whose incompetence isn’t at the star level of Gerasimov… the idea is to keep the game going, because that’s where the money is, as Willie Sutton, the famous bank robber, put it so long ago.
The wars in Afghanistan and Iraq were kept going for twenty years, but never won, even though that was fully possible in both places – and quickly. If you look at Sun Tzu, it’s obvious that sending over 150,000 troops would never win the war – it would have taken ten times that number – and that’s obvious to me and Niall Ferguson, as I said in a conversation with a friend 15 years ago. “Mission creep” just means that the usual games are being played, the goal is to keep the game going for as long as the host populations ( the populations that feed the parasitical governments) can be convinced to stand for it.
Hellbound and Down 