Statement by Permanent Representative
Vassily Nebenzia at UNSC Briefing on Ukraine
Excerpt: For all those years, we have been investing in the development of [Crimea], and we will do the same with Donbas and other territories that Kiev has and is trying to ruin.
Excerpt: I know that our former Western partners will not listen to us. (Note the word former.)
One cannot understand Russia without first understanding that war-conflict is the only context in which decisions are made, progress occurs, humanity earns the true happiness, which is feeling noble. War-conflict is not an indication of failure. War-conflict is an opportunity for success. In fact, war-conflict is the only opportunity available for achieving success of any kind. All geo-historical decisions are made through the agency of war-conflict. So too are all mundane decisions, albeit not so palpably.
Americans have never had to defend their homeland. 1812 — in The USA and Canada — was a British punitive expedition in search of an invasion but not an invasion. Pearl Harbor was an attack, not an invasion. The Aleutians, then a US Territory far from The USA heartland, were invaded by Imperial Japan but without will or means to stay there much less to exploit their position.
The USA has sustained significant infiltrations by foreign intelligence operators, including armed SOF, as well as land-rushes by foreign civilians — foreign Intel-SOF interspersed among them — most of these, in grinding irony, summoned by American GOs and NGOs. None of these events, however, was by an invading military force. Other than in the Aleutians, when was the last time an American home on the American homeland came under artillery or aerial bombardment in preparation for storming by massed infantry and armor?
Few Americans understand or have experience of the specter of real invasion on their homeland, what happens when that happens. A very few Americans have invaded others’ homelands. But few Americans have the idea of their own homeland being invaded by significant military force. Most don’t have a reference point. They don’t understand how war-conflict works. They don’t have a sense of its nature, its personality so to speak.
No American at West Point has had their mother, sister, or girlfriend raped and dismembered on their homeland by members of a foreign military force, their homes blown out by tank and artillery fire, their properties ravaged, destroyed, and stolen. Practically every Russian family has these experiences. Americans don’t get it. Russians do get it, pretty much constantly throughout their national history, which runs now to 1160 years.
This cultural abyss explains the horrifically risible impetus for and effects of US propaganda against Russia, including smooth words from senior American military commanders, who should know better yet repeatedly — and in public — materially betray duties attending their commissions or retired status.
US problems are systemic now, not fixable by applying this program or that. It’s not a matter of finding measures to do something. It’s not that there is too much program here, not enough there. This is superficial. The failure is systemic, not programmatic. The patient flatlined, is not in need of adjustments. General Mac Arthur put it accurately:
It must be of the spirit if we are to save the flesh.
The whole thing isn’t working because the whole thing is led by ignorant and incompetent moral cowards — civilian and military, elected and appointed — beset with jejune concepts and metaphors. The leaders, so-called, pine to accumulate wealth and awards rather than to respect and honor their countrymen as well as fellow humans standing in other and different nations and cultures.
These are therefore dirty people, monied yet little people, fat, insolent, greedy, and barbarous. They tell themselves they are God’s gift of light to the world, Jerusalem to the nations — who damn well better obey them for that, or else bombs away. In fact, they rise in a garden of gardens just like everyone else, they cannot abridge Dharma, and they were well-advised to make up and get along with the nations in a brotherly manner befitting such charming and colorful delights planted together and tended by the self-same Gardner. No one expects this dirty bunch, however, to do these things which could save themselves.
US systemic failure appeared in 2008 and accelerates now under pressure from the two fundamental forces which shape history and humanity:
War and real geopolitics.
Military technology, war-fighting doctrine, and active war shape everything we do. Structures and protocols for procurement, TOEs and TOPs, doctrine, and training beg re-founding for the purpose of serving the one actual, rational USA grand national strategic objective:
Maintain USA sovereign national freedom by sharing fairly the burdens of civilization with the other nations, that is, by communicating respectfully with the other gardens of gardens.
Fulminacio Escalante
This is bedrock, fixed, and unwavering US — and others’ — grand national strategic objective. Party policies may not minimize, dilute, or redirect it. Officials in US federal or state employ whose policies hinder or thwart this objective are cutthroats and thieves. They are not officials of a US GO or even loyal Americans. Such as they lack authority to execute responsibilities of US GOs or even to stand on The USA homeland.
The peace of the nations, the unity of humanity, is in God, humility, and fairness, not in economics, politics, race, ethnicity, or money. Here on earth we are different, but we are not enemies. Just don’t try to roll onto our national territory. Understand this and one understands Russia.
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Principle I
Principle II
Principle III
By Artists M and F Graham
At Puttaparthi, Andhra Pradesh, India
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The poetry is important to get the feeling of the song.
