The ruling caste has sought to control population since ancient times, through both physical extermination and cultural/ psychological warfare (forcing intellectuals to submit to celibacy for 'religious reasons', etc.), traditionally the ruling families in Europe have arranged for a large conflict every 50-100 years or so, to thin-out the peasantry and in-so-doing sustain their economic (land) and thus cultural monopolies. These blood-lettings are essential, they are the very life-blood of centralisation and the only means of sustaining the socially intolerable and economically inefficient concentrations of wealth and power that certain dynastic families have become accustomed to.
Orchestrated wars and famines are the life-blood that fertilises the fields of their imperial Elysium.
For example the Hapsburg dynasty, instrumental in fomenting the 30 years war (1618 – 1648), which killed one third of the population of Germany, were also protagonists of both world wars and are still a somewhat influential force in the E.U. today. Custodianship over the occulted technologies of statecraft passes from father to son, along with the distinct ‘cultural values’ which have cynically justified these practises since ancient times. The Greeks talked of the need to suppress human imagination (psychological warfare), discussed ‘over-population’ and arranged wars to cull their populations 2500 years ago, and a continuous thread of these genocidal thoughts can be followed from the times of Plato, all the way through the history of civilisation. As foreign kleptocrats conspire with neighbouring dynasties to instigate wars amongst their conquered populations for mutual interest.
Nuclear war, with its 'mutually assured’ and indiscriminate destruction, changed everything. Ever since the Rhine Meadow death camps and the expulsion/ mass-rape of ethnic Germans in 1945-50, which marks the last large-scale genocide in the history of Western Europe - the United Nations, along with various deep state ‘philanthropists’ and their sock-puppet organisations, have focused on ‘passive’ methods of depopulation. Due in no small part to innovations within psychological warfare, mind-control and weaponised anthropology, these methods, which could be described as epigenetic depopulation programs, have proven devastatingly effective. So much so, that nearly every country in the so-called ‘developed’ world is now in a state of sharp demographic collapse. Mass-migration, of more virile stock from the ‘developing world’ simultaneously plugs the gap in the labour market and muddies the statistical waters, helping to cover-up the on-going genocide, which (however passive) remains the largest and most far-reaching genocide in the history of our species.
"Instead of recommending cleanliness to the poor, we should encourage contrary habits. In our towns we should make the streets narrower, crowd more people into the houses, and court the return of the plague." — Thomas Malthus (1766-1834)
"If a Black Death could be spread throughout the world once in every generation survivors could procreate freely without making the world too full. There would be nothing in this to offend the consciences of the devout or to restrain the ambitions of nationalists. The state of affairs might be somewhat unpleasant, but what of that? Really high-minded people are indifferent to happiness, especially other people’s." — Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)