"... what the world is witnessing today is akin to what theorists in the past have called “total war,” in which combatants draw on vast resources, mobilize their societies, prioritize warfare over all other state activities, attack a broad variety of targets, and reshape their economies and those of other countries..."

-- Isn't this 'nightmarish vision' a straightforward description of the US, with its 2 million serving in the military, its trillion-dollar annual military spending, and its indulgence, two or three times a decade, in manufactured, multi-trillion-dollar wars of choice fought on tick...?

The guy is definitely a nut.

M.