Crazy

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I will now share an over-simplified and emotionless reckoning of my own wartime schizophrenia:

The whole of me believes that this war is intended to act as the first step towards the establishment of a global Pax Americana, a campaign that won't be complete until all nations posing any kind of military threat to the U.S. have been not just defeated but wholly subjugated. I further believe that the current administration really believes that this really is the best course for the future of this country, perhaps even for the future of the world.

The vocal minority in my head accepts this idea, because America has been good to me and mine, and if I must be a member of any civilization with an aptitude for global domination, it may as well be this one. (This is sort of operating under the Civ-like assumption that every civilization in the world is trying to win, and the wrong one winning would be very very bad.)

The grumbling majority thinks this is a terrible idea, because America has been good to me and mine, and not only would a world-spanning empire very likely result in an unpredictably different sort of nation, but the bloody work involved in making this empire happen would mess up everything in the short term, souring alliances and strengthening enmities abroad, exposing new scarcities and possible dangers at home.

So when I refer to my personal majority/minority, that's what I'm talking about.