One of the most enigmatic events in modern world history is the Battle of Waterloo. It remains enigmatic right down to the characterization of the forces involved. Some regard Napoleon Bonaparte as just another Hitler, while others view him as a failed George Washington. Figuring out who the “good guys” and the “bad guys” in this contest were is by no means an easy exercise. Both sides were heavily populated with Christians, many of whom certainly prayed for protection and divine intervention in order to achieve victory for their side. In the grand scheme of things, was Napoleon’s defeat at Waterloo a divine setback, or a divine victory? If it was a setback, what was lost? And if a victory, what was achieved in the way of divine support for humanity in the bigger contest with the interlopers?

Here you are finally getting to the core of the problem. The most instructive lesson from this historical event is the fact that it is so murky and uncertain as to who won and who lost in a larger sense. We would say, all are losers who participated in this particular drama and this is true in most wars, because they have no benefit to those who are killed or harmed grievously in the loss of loved ones, and the disruption to the economy and stability of the warring nations that is all a part of the sorry mess that results from the misguided notion that differences of opinion can be settled on a battlefield. In this instance, the difference in the degree of divine alignment was not only uncertain but largely beside the point. This was a wholly ginned up military campaign that cost many dearly and to no practical benefit. This is true in most cases, excepting in those instances when the scale of the warfare is such that it puts the entirety of humanity in peril, in which case the preservation of the Divine Human Experiment takes precedence in terms of importance, and is a measure of the outcome with respect to forward progress if the continued agenda behind the creation of humanity is advancing in some way or losing ground. So we would see that entire period as a perfect illustration of the folly of war as a means of settling disputes and absorbing the tensions of competition and a desire for supremacy in having power and control in one's hands and not the hands of another. It is often the case there is little difference between competing regimes that may come and go over the years and end up having a similar legacy—it is often one with as many negatives as benefits, and one can see in hindsight that going to war is an irrational choice except in the most extreme and compelling of circumstances. We can tell you that war for the sake of honor and glory is a kind of folly because those agendas are a kind of posturing, and any victory justified on that basis will be largely devoid of meaning and, in actuality, more likely to be a karmic liability through lack of justification in turning to violence. So here we would say, the folly is in thinking there must be winners and losers to begin with when all who engage in war are losers, because they will all be individually and collectively losing ground in their spiritual progress and will have a large penalty brought by the Law of Karma to reckon with, and this will be a detriment to their forward progress. At a minimum, this discussion should help those in today's world better look with a jaundiced eye at their leaders proposing a military campaign of any kind, anywhere, for any reason. Humanity is woefully behind in learning the lessons of history and still being all too willing and ready to turn to a military solution for the flimsiest of reasons, and in fact, sometimes for no discernible reason other than the opportunity presents itself and it will be justified on wholly theoretical grounds to simply gain a tactical advantage for an envisioned greater threat that is only theoretical, but allows establishing a footprint, a forward base of some kind, that has military advantage tactically, even as it creates a political and karmic entanglement that will lead to greater involvement and a deeper and worsening conflict. If you look at war as always being engineered, orchestrated, and managed by interlopers using you as cannon fodder to carry out their dark aims, you will be better equipped to sort out the true agendas at work in any decision involving military engagements, and that is worth working towards and would be the best lesson to take away from these historical events.