Power Is Everything: Playing to Win
I had written previously about Resavager, a somewhat white supremacist writer. But boy, that dude can write. He really is good. I stumbled upon another one of his write ups and it’s a banger. (Source: https://resavager.com/p/power-gives-the-first-right). “Power Gives the First Right.”
It revolves around the important topic of power and its importance. We’ve been psy-oped into thinking it’s a bad thing or we need to hide from it. Well, this is wrong. Many of us shy away from it but if you care about your family, your country and even yourself and making an impact, you need to understand it. In fact, you need to master it. I used to think Money and wealth is all you need and it’s a subset of power for sure. But as we see from China, power trumps riches. Just ask Jack Ma. Or Elon versus Trump, power always beats wealth.
Resavager writes:
“You will never take power if you abandon power. You’re putting you and your kin at the mercy of your enemies. The steps described above are half measures easily overcome by the people that hate you.
The US military in Afghanistan and Iraq had one arm strapped behind its back. Our kin in the military did not have free rein to conquer their opponents. They were made to believe that the peoples they fought were a small minority of terrorists holding hostage peoples who just wanted liberal democracy.
Historically, you had to be able to kill off at least 30% of the enemy’s fighting age males to get victory. Our military was told not to fire unless fired upon, that most Afghanis or Iraqis were oppressed by small number of terrorists. That if you simply cut off the heads of the snakes, victory would be ours. You know what happened and you know that isn’t the truth. Why would you apply it to our situation?”
Basically, he says, if you want to win a war, you fight it, no holds barred. We’ve lost all the last few wars because we never truly fought it. Truth is, most of these wars America fought were never existential. And we never treated it as such.
“War, like nature, continues to progress. It knows no rest. It continues to grow more complex. This is not the barbaric age of swords and shields. War is immensely complex and a people that abandon it, will be conquered by the ones who don’t. You can argue all day and night about how we are better, how we are superior, but nature demands that you compete. You stop competing, you give your enemies an opening. Sure, maybe they aren’t as smart as we are, but that’s ok, they will have the numbers and funding to overcome anything you and yours could put forward.”
“There is a powerful book on the first US Civil War written by John Keegan called The American Civil War, that I encourage you to read. The South was united in their cause. They have none of the racial hang ups our kin have today. They knew they belonged to a race. They had the superior warriors. Hell, they had the superior leadership. The Confederate fighting force was revered by generations of Americans to come for their valiant struggle against the Union. But they still lost.
How the South lost the Civil War was best explained by Keegan. All the infrastructure in the United States was in the north. The North controlled the seas around the states. The vast majority of the population was also in the north. On top of this, the north enlisted vast numbers of immigrants and blacks to fight on the frontlines. The North made many mistakes that drew the war out for as long as it did, but the reality was the North was fighting with one arm behind its back. If the South put up a better fight, the North would have simply used its other arm. Victory was never in the cards and many of the Confederate generals understood this.”
So the key lesson he highlights: “As Nietzsche said in his early essay on the Greeks, “Power gives the first right.” You cannot abandon power and expect to win.
This is why for many young men, the military or building true ties to the military make sense. I wished I had done military service, but I do the next best things. I fund military innovation and production and I work with the Department of Defense and US & our allied militaries. I also make friends with present and ex-Military people. They are good & capable people.
As I mentioned earlier, modern warfare is immensely complex, so you can go into the military and not be in a combat arms role, if that’s what you are worried about. Our people need to be on the cutting edge of warfare, on the frontier itself, if we want to survive. The military does TAKE, but you can also TAKE from the military. You will learn skills you won’t learn anywhere else. The military will pay you to learn these skills and you will get benefits for your service. Three years gets your college paid for and the ability to buy a house. You will get connections that might lead you in directions none of our kin are talking about: the deep state and the military industrial complex, for example.
The reality is that you need to do more. He who does more, is worth more. Anyone can enlist or commission, but how much more can you do? Can you get yourself into positions of power? Can you get yourself into elite units like the 75th Ranger Regiment or the Navy SEALs? Are able to make connections and get into the deep state or military industrial complex? Life ain’t about paying bills and dying. Make your mark on the world. The way we act now would be the equivalent of the colonists never rebelling because the British Empire was too strong or never venturing out into the frontier because of the danger of Indian raids. He who dares, conquers.
The world belongs to those who TAKE power. If you want to see your sons do better than you, you must set the example. If you run and hide, how could you expect your children to be any different? The WILL to win is something sorely missing in our race and it falls upon us to embody it again. We who know have the duty to pick up the sword. Never forget Nietzsche’s words: POWER gives the first right. MIGHT makes right.”
This is absolutely correct: Might makes right. It’s a hard brutal truth but the world is getting harder. Pax Americana is over, or at least the one we know. A colder and more brutal ruthless world.
A world that no longer purely revolves around money and GDP growth. A world with mass job destruction, growing income inequality, rudderless & venal politicians, and a decaying law and order. To be truly sovereign, it doesn’t matter how much money you have, although it certainly helps. But if you don't have health, fighting & shooting skills in times of chaos you will be eaten (maybe literally). Even if you have a well trained security team, who knows how reliable they will be if you are just paying them. Or if they don’t respect you. They will if you have skills, similar to medieval noblemen who have both money and training and are seen as leaders and comrades.
So go make plenty of money, go get some fighting and weapon skills, and go make some really tough and well trained friends. You and your kin may make it out of this mess intact. Desperate times require desperate measures.