Land of Liars: Europe STILL Spends More on Russian Petro Than on Ukraine Aid

<![CDATA[The phrase “War is politics by other means” has been repeated ad nauseum over the years, but its origins have been lost to time. Some attribute the quote to Prussian military theorist Carl von Clausewitz in the 1800s, but the sentiment almost certainly preceded him. In the late 1600s, King Louis XIV of France ordered his cannons engraved with the words Ultima Ratio Regum — “The Last Argument of Kings.” More than a hundred years earlier, Niccolo Machiavelli famously noted that war was simply a tool to achieve a desired political outcome. ]]>