But I still want to know: What is behind all this, or is simply the age-old struggle to dominate others? After all, killing, destroying, and ruling is the life work of these bemedaled bureaucrats.

UPDATE from Scott Evans:

Dare we imagine that something roughly analogous to Stalin’s purges of the late 1930s is unfolding here, albeit without the blood  (at least for now)?

The Best of Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.