Some years ago, my military son recommended I read the book “Unrestricted Warfare.”
“It will help you understand a lot of what is going on,” he advised seriously. “Most people wouldn’t even recognize it, if we were at war already.”
“Unrestricted Warfare” was written by Chinese military strategists Qiao Liang and Wang Xiangsui and published in 1999. It proposes that warfare can be conducted not just on the conventional battlefield, but also in domains such as economics, finance, cyberspace, information, politics, culture, and law, without boundaries. These non-military tactics blur the lines between war and peace.
When I joined my church’s Life Committee, it was mainly focused on helping new moms raise healthy babies and preventing abortion. However, at the very first meeting I attended, opposing Canada’s medical assistance in dying (MAiD) program had become an urgent priority. We refer to it as “government-induced death” and celebrated when euthanasia where mental illness is the sole underlying condition was at least delayed.
A meeting later, the skyrocketing rates of transgenderism among teenagers came up.
As moms and grammas, we are dismayed that young people are being offered the chance to have their endocrine systems disrupted with hormones or their bodies surgically altered to such a degree that many of them will never be able to become natural parents. “Gender fluidity” can actually mean sterilizing young adults, but no one is talking about that.
Post-Covid, Gynecologist-Obstetrician Dr. James Thorpe has found a 1200-fold increase in severe menstrual abnormalities, a 57-fold increase in miscarriage, a 38-fold increase in fetal death or stillbirth rates. His research found 15 other major pregnancy complications.
“Pushing these experimental COVID-19 vaccines globally is the greatest violation of medical ethics in the history of medicine, maybe humanity,” Thorpe says.
Another topic that deserves discussion but is still hidden in the fog is the alarming increase in mortality in the 18-64 age group recently disclosed by life insurance companies: all-cause mortality 40% higher during the third and fourth quarters of 2021 than it was pre-Covid. Apparently, no one knows why.
And the opioid overdose deaths!
In 2021, more Americans died of opioid overdose than in the Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan wars combined: 100,306 opioid deaths versus fewer than 70,000 war deaths. For two decades, a generation was awash in doctor-prescribed Oxycontin. Now, fentanyl, carfentanyl and other illegal opioids are wiping out thousands of citizens in the prime of their lives.
These drugs, and the untreated mental illness which is so consistently a comorbidity of addiction, are the root cause of horrifying homelessness in Vancouver, Portland Seattle and Los Angeles. How can a loving, caring, compassionate society view such suffering and neglect without rushing to help?
Last night, I skimmed videos on YouTube. The first one that popped up featured a tremendously fat woman laughing skeptically into the camera at the idea that “obesity” existed as a condition.
“There is no such thing as ‘obesity!’” she insisted confidently. “It’s a made-up condition. It’s a social contagion. ‘Obesity’ does not exist.”
This culture of embracing avoidable death now threatens human beings from before birth to the early grave.
Our Life Committee, well-intentioned as it is, has been focused on traditional threats against life: abortion is one, yes. Now, euthanasia is another. Promoting gender fluidity is another; flooding communities with legal drugs and untested vaccines, and normalizing obesity are others.
Under “Unrestricted Warfare,” government propaganda may seem gentler than enemy bullets and bombs.
By the same token, body positivity and harm reduction sound a lot nicer than abortion.
In any case, we are dealing with a new kind of unrestricted warfare: not against a political enemy, but against Life itself.
