Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000
RAMANAM
In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen.
Countrymen,
ORBIS NON SUFFICIT
SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT
The furious tenacity of irrational ethicists continues: Mona Charen is carrying the M249 SAW, so to speak, for the R wing of the D-R UniParty. Scott Johnson addresses her 16-round burst. I commented on Johnson’s address:
The Big Picture: alliance with Russia is on its way, deep and extensive alliance with Russia. And long-standing. It is not about money, or principles, it is about geography.
Kick, scratch and scream by NRO, Ds, Rs, CIA, NYT, WaPo, CBS, Chamber of Commerce and all the NGO/Academic lawyers and ethics experts on the planet, yet they cannot prevent, much less impede, this alliance. Drop the screens then observe on a map the vectors of human population movement. The alliance includes India.
Mona is frustrated, she is trying to scratch someone’s face and yell at them all at once, but it’s her own world-view that is in shards and she knows it. Donald Trump is not only a POTUS, he is a movement towards movements of national interest that require and self-generate radical inter-national alliances from their own internal logic. They ain’t gonna be no one world order, religious or secular. There never has been one.
Update 1: Indian Infrastructure Build-Out
Update 2: India army chief: we must prepare for simultaneous war with China and Pakistan
Update 3: BRICS Declaration on Pakistan
Update 4: Secretary Tillerson Discusses USA Relationship With India
Update 5: Sundance: Chinese Central Planners Forecast “Weak Growth” in Manufacturing and Housing …
I commented: I might be less downright about alliance between Russia and China. I see cooperation on specifics there but not fundamental common interest or presence in being. Russia has considerable common interest and presence in being with both India and USA. And they with Russia. So I would factor, as a squeeze, an alliance among those three leaving China no chair to sit in. Frankly, that alliance — USA, India, Russia — is the grand throttle on China’s hegemonic aspirations. There is not another one entirely able to do the job.
Update 6: When India’s Strategic Backyard Meets China’s Strategic Periphery
Update 7: L. Todd Wood: Putin Getting Played By China, Needs A Deal With Trump
Update 8: A brief correspondence regarding strategic Russia, from the summer of 2018:
One: I just figured it out. They are after Constantinople. That is why they took Crimea. That is why they are projecting from the east. That is why they care about access to the Med from Syria. They are encircling from the east, which is the only way they know how. Following Catherine the Great’s model. They are reclaiming their “rights” as the third in the line of Caesars with the Roman Empire as first, then the Byzantium Emperors as the second, and then the Tsar as the third, with Tsar being Caesar.
Two: Nagorno-Karabakh: If I read this accurately, it implies Armenia has force sufficient to keep Azerbaijan from taking Nagorno-Karabakh from its semi-independent governors whom Armenia supports. If accurate read, I did not know Armenia has that sort of power and Azer does not. Interesting. Might also imply Armenia could not oppose Russia using Nagorno-Karabakh to stage at Turkey/Constantinople . . . maybe.
One: I think the read is accurate. Also important is this.
I am pretty sure that is his first foreign visit. And it says a lot that Putin actually granted him an audience.
I think both Armenia and Azerbaijan are in a tough spot because of Russia, Turkey, and Iran’s interests in Syria; interests that coincide in points. Neither country is able to play the regional big three off each other the way it seems they’ve done in the past, so I think they are ducking and covering for now.
Russia is still the stronger between her and Iran, though, I think, and not just because of nukes. Russia also has a land bridge into Iran through Georgia and Armenia, which Iran cannot compare. Would be interesting to know how South Ossetia and North Ossetia, territories inside Georgia that Russia did not give back to Tbilisi after 2008, played in this game.
Two: Among other things, your analysis implies that Armenia would *welcome* Russia staging through Nagorno-Karabakh against Turkey.
If that is correct, and I think it is, I concur. And if so, that represents an historic confluence (Russian Greek Orthodoxy and Armenian Orthodoxy) of theological positions in re the Council of Chalcedon (the natures of the Christ).
Politics is theological squabbles by other means. Never think that arguing over “how many angels can dance on the head” of a pin is an inconsequential, stupid or ridiculous existential/political struggle. Or just a mind game. It goes to the very heart of accurate (existentially, phenomenologically) soteriology and political philosophy.
Related: L. Todd Wood: WWIII Anyone? The Crusades Are Returning To Caucasus As Violence Rages In Nagorno-Karabakh
Update 9: Michael Kofman: Raiding And International Brigandry: Russia’s Strategy For Great Power Competition
Update 10: Holmes and Delamer: Mahan Rules
Update 11: Bruce Gilley: The Case For Colonialism
Update 12: ISW: How We Got Here With Russia: The Kremlin’s Worldview
Update 13: James P. Pinkerton: Why Buying Greenland Is One Of Donald Trump’s Best Ideas
Update 14: Francesca A. Graham: Putin’s political philosophy: implications for future Russian military activity
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DPQ15EgyTY&feature=youtu.be
Update 15: Sundance: Big Winning – REPORT: India and U.S. Close to Final Trade Agreement
Update 16: Yes, Russia Could Work With US Against China
Update 17: Anthony Vinci: How to Stop China From Imposing Its Values
America’s alliances were built to address a Soviet military threat. The economic bullying that Beijing uses requires a different kind of collective self-defense.
This is a hoot! Vinci calls for a solution to the problem I have already solved with Three Brothers Doctrine.
AUM NAMAH SHIVAYA
