Never underestimate government's capacity to murder its own people to obtain its objectives.

All one needs to do is look back through history to find countless examples of how a government's own citizens were sacrificed on purpose to achieve a greater evil.

The sinking of the Lusitania comes to mind. Ammunition was placed on that ship on purpose. It was steamed at half speed on purpose. It was used as a false flag to get America into the war on purpose.

Even if the Germans didn't fire upon it, someone else would have. Then the Germans would have been blamed anyway. Do you see how it works? Hell, sometimes they make up the event entirely like the Gulf of Tonkin!

It doesn't matter what the people want. He was a monster, but what he explained is absolutely true:

"Why, of course, the people don't want war. Why would some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best that he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece? Naturally, the common people don't want war; neither in Russia nor in England nor in America, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy or a fascist dictatorship or a Parliament or a Communist dictatorship." --Hermann Goring

Bringing people to war is a very simple task, and "war is the health of the State" as Randolph Silliman Bourne so wisely stated. Without war people's individual liberty and interests are in focus. With war control of individuals and the interests of the elite are in focus. Therefore, the state has absolutely no interest in peace.

I used to be an Intelligence Analyst, and I'm now a Private Investigator. Having said that to explain my perspective, I will share the most important fact people need to understand other than the beginning of this reply:

Compartmentalized intelligence works.

Do you know what that is? Governments keep millions of secrets, and they do it very well. People will say, "There's no way they could pull that off. Too many people would be involved."

The people saying that don't understand how compartmentalized intelligence works.

Google democide if you really want to get angry. Then you'll understand why people like me, Liberty Professionals as I call us, are so adamant about reversing course and returning to individual liberty. We need to walk away from the systems that maintain the ruler's power and control.

Without those systems, there would be no war. As the vast majority of people want to do, we would live in peace instead.