The Birth of the Modern State
"World War I was the first modern global military conflict which took place in Europe between 1914 to 1918. Archaic military tactics met modern industrialised warfare for the first time, resulting casualties on a previously unimaginable scale. Men rotted in the mud, then were sent to face massed machine gun fire, modern artillary, tanks and chemical weapons. Over 20 million soldiers and civilians died and countless others were physically maimed or mentally scarred by the horrors of trench warfare."
Of course our states no longer inflict war on our own soil any more. However, in this case it took them another war to finally seek diplomacy in Europe. We now make war in far flung places like Iraq and Afghanistan, with false claims of liberty. But the futility of state aggression is well marked within this footage and the idea that this war gave us freedom is as much to mock our intelligence as the claims that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction. The state clearly lies for its own ends and the men that start the war never pick up a gun or finish it. No, they leave that mess to the rest of humanity.
Music: Clint Mansell - The Last Man
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