US salients (bases) west of San Francisco and east of New York are avenues of attack along which enemies have, can, and will again attack. The salients project weakness, not strength. This is especially recognizable in East Eurasia (China, Korea, Japan) and Southwest Eurasia (Middle East).
The USA have no reasons for active or potentially active regular military operations beyond the shores of her constituent states. Modern weaponry dictate this realization. Homeland defense is the sole required US Military TOE, to include a small, swift, decisive QRF useful for very brief overseas punitive operations as needed.
US bases overseas embarrass The USA and act as stones in their shoes and/or grifting operations for nations playing host to them.
T H E – S T R A W – M A N
Provided by Kori Schake at Foreign Affairs:
At least two things inside Kori’s essay are fallacious:
- that The USA is in all ways supreme over the nations, therefore must dominate them, and
- that money buys military, diplomatic, and financial strength sufficient to maintain global supremacy.
Kori projects on the international community blocs of hostile regions supervised by The USA instead of connections among proactive nations who create partnerships for mutual benefit and mutually protect their equal rights of sovereignty. The cohort of Americans with whom Kori Schake sleeps cannot imagine, reject to hear of nations sublimating their differences in mutually beneficial security architectures.
Kori’s complaint is that the Biden crew, disjointed structurally and incompetent even at their own agenda, are not delivering US global supremacy. The notion of polite, respectful, and truthful talks with Russia, to create mutually beneficial agreements, and without threats or conditions, does not occur to Kori. She is unfamiliar with normal human discourse, to include rational and good-natured statecraft. She is ignorant of Russia, The USA, Russians, and Americans and in her ignorance thinks only to dominate the lot. These are her credentials for prestige at CFR.
P R O L E G O M E N O N
There is one reason Wassily, one reason only please, to go to war. That is, to right a wrong. Any other reason adduced for going to war is a pretext for self-aggrandizement, a motivation which is illegitimate at any time or place.
This rule applies as much between persons and groups as between nations.
The only just war is a war to right a wrong. An imagined or purpose-made wrong is a fantasy or a narrative, not a wrong.
A reason for war must be actual, an objective wrong describable in such plain language that everyone who wants right and shuns wrong — which is most people of any nation when given full and accurate facts of a situation, any situation — can understand and subscribe to as their nation’s reason for going to war.
A war to right a wrong cannot fail because it is Dharmic. God / Dharma supports those who support Dharma / God. God is the force, God is the purpose, God is the value, God is the goal, God is the provider, human and all other creatures are the instruments. It’s all His show.
P R E F A C E
Russia’s SMO to neutralize her borderlands (The Ukraine means the borderlands) also demonstrates for the nations that global hegemony by any one or group of nations, or any private combination, is not possible for at least decades ahead. I put it at centuries ahead. Modern weaponry does not allow political, financial, military, or cultural hegemony to any nation, group of nations, or private combination. The earth’s late electronic envelop operates faster than any man or missile can operate. The electronic envelope, being fire, brings Dharma very close to palpable.
So far, American Jewish, Anglican, and Jesuit atheists / hegemons, who claim prestige and authority to rule the world, refuse the message and persist in attachment to a feeling of ethno-religious supremacy entitling them to dominate everyone in every way because they are earth’s own and only chosen people. Having denounced God as Jesus the Christ, Jewish, Anglican, and Jesuit atheists / hegemons are in disgrace of themselves and disdain by the nations.
To aspire as an hegemon,
one first must be an atheist.
Otherwise, it’s just too stupid.
Russia also illuminates opportunities for inter-nation partnerships on the far side of Jewish, Anglican, and Jesuit hegemons’ disgrace and demise. Watchwords and measurements for such labors include:
Talk
Listen
Maneuver
Be Serious
Multivariance
Mutual Benefit
Professionalize
Keep Your Word
Indivisible Security
Peaceful Readiness
No Threats Or Conditions
Common Security Architecture
E X P O S I T I O N – 1
The USA are an island nation able to mount rare and brief punitive expeditions and unable to win a war on another continent. To win a war anywhere, a nation’s armed force must have secure communications, meaning, they must be able to rely on interior lines of production and transportation. Few nations today can win a war, and those who can may succeed only on their own continents.
Modern weaponry disbars inter-continental warfare. Today, a nation’s officialdom participating in armed conflict on a continent not their own foster private priorities, not public prosperities. They are an officialdom of death cults, not of their nation (Cf. Sicarii, Thirty Years War).
At one and the same time, US Armed Force must be redesigned and US oligarchs must be reoriented to accommodate the aforementioned conditions. The day was when US oligarchs gifted libraries, churches, parks, schools, architectural beauty, poetry, and music for Americans’ contentment and recreation. This is proper expenditure of excess wealth. Forming charitable foundations, funding drug cartels, and opening dummy corporations to shield hegemonic priorities and relentless amassing from scrutiny and opprobrium is improper expenditure of excess wealth. We’re here to love our neighbors, not to dominate them, to correct our own faults, not to blame or exploit others. Mothers, remember now to teach your children these facts before they become older and unteachable.
E X P O S I T I O N – 2
Overall, US military leaders and their civilian counterparts take as their models for study and practice their own Union and Confederate Armies as well as the former German Army, Heer, and especially the former German Unified Armed Force, Wehrmacht, comprising Heer, Luftwaffe, and Kriegsmarine.
Americans are a young nation, bumptious but internally clean, having yet much to learn about the modes of peace and war. Americans’ best teachers are Russians and Indians.
The bulk of American and West European historiography of World War II relies on memories and assessments written or otherwise related by German senior officers who lost two wars last century yet wanted to ensure continuance of their reputations as military marvels.
Memories and assessments written or otherwise related by Russian / Soviet senior officers — who won World War II — are difficult to find in, for example, American historiography of World War II. Also, from earliest years, CIA have ensured that what most Americans’ believe about Russia, Russians, and Russian war motivations and conduct is false.
Certainly in American popular memory, Americans won World War II by adding their weight of industry and arms to the fight against the German Wehrmacht and its not inconsequential allies in North Africa, Italy, and East and West Europe.
However, the Wehrmacht Americans, British, Canadians, Australians and others faced in North Africa was under-supplied and strategically out in the blue, and the Wehrmacht they faced in Europe was defeated before guns spit fire at Normandy. The Wehrmacht was defeated by the Red Army in Russia / Soviet Union. Russians / Soviets won the war against Nazi Germany at a cost to themselves no Americans or Europeans would have knowledge, fortitude, or means to bear, because America is an island nation, not a continental nation. Americans cannot be threatened the way Russians can be and frequently are threatened, as today by demonically insane American hegemons.
Americans have no sense of national existential threat. Russians do, been there, done that, and they count the times. America is an island nation. Russia is a continental nation. Credible belligerents can walk into Russia. They have to fly or sail into The USA. Moreover, Russia is humanity’s nation with the longest border.
And yet, US military leaders and their civilian counterparts sit at the feet gazing upwards into the eyes, so to speak, of former Germans officers who lost wars rather than former and contemporary Russians / Soviets officers who won wars, including the last war US military leaders and their civilian counterparts entered and helped win decisively. The same American hommage, be it noted, is not offered senior military and civilian leaders of Imperial Japan, Fascist Italy, or Banderista Ukraine, also losers. But German losers, sure, that’s fine, they are good role models, I say ruefully with a tinge of sarcasm.
Russia and Russians are worth studying for who they are, for their justifications of war, for their modes of war-fighting, and for methods, calculations, and parameters they use to design their Armed Force and armaments:
E X P O S I T I O N – 3
The war-making asset of Integrated ISR-Strike Capability is the most important lesson to be learned from this conflict against Eurasia initiated by a handful of hegemonic, self-installed officials at The USA-NATO combination. Russias’ Integrated ISR-Strike Capability is an umbrella over their Novorossiya-Malorossiya-Galicia operations space as well as their Eurasian strategic space.
Now, no war conduces to a happy political outcome unless very competent umbrella such as that provides supreme or at least superior force in the tactical, operational, and strategic depths. The umbrella must be of the highest quality for the war to have a pleasing moral outcome, which is the true goal of any war. The umbrella must be purposed to kill the enemy rather than to hold land.
Hegemonic, self-installed USA-NATO officials have for their use excellent ISR Capability — Russia’s is superior — and modestly Integrated ISR-Strike Capability — Russia’s is supreme on the Eurasian continent, which is Lisbon to Vladivostok, or as Russian strategic thinkers call it, The Greater Eurasian Partnership. Russians’ work on Integrated ISR-Strike Capability dates from the 1970s at least. Russians were first to see the essential utility of Integrated ISR-Strike Capability.
Hegemonic self-installed USA-NATO officials, who started this war against Eurasia, are able to bring powerful ISR to the Ukraine-European strategic space. However, they are unable to bring there Strike Capability sufficient to match much less over-match Russia’s in that battlespace.
Thus, said officials’ war against Eurasia cannot succeed. USA-NATO war-making assets are inadequate to the task hegemonic, self-installed USA-NATO officials set themselves to accomplish, namely, to ravish Russia. The rapist -murderer cannot elevate the instrument needed to fulfill their desires.
Integrated ISR-Strike Capability is a version of Rama’s Agni Astra. It dispels confusion generated by IO (Information Operations, PsyOps, Propaganda, Psychological Warfare, Terrorism Campaign). Russians won’t move out from under the safety provided by their Integrated ISR-Strike Capability umbrella. They will make no pell-mell dashes to take a position, a bridge, etc., no Thunder Runs. Russians will move methodically under the crushing weight of their Integrated ISR-Strike Capabilities.
Tactical and operational tempi do not and will not look like a WWII blitzkrieg (fast maneuver war, American shock and awe) or massed mech-infantry / armor attacks. Those actions happened in a different era. Blitzkrieg capabilities exist today, at least by Russia, but this is not something you do in the presence of even modestly serious Integrated ISR-Strike Capability. Russians are not battlefield opportunists in the old German sense of the word. Hegemonic, self-installed USA-NATO officials started it, Russia said, Enough!, and is ending it.
Russia defends herself against a gang of rapist-murderers, lying self-aggrandizers, in this case hegemonic, self-installed USA-NATO officials who aspire to end the sovereignty of America and Eurasian nations and the liberty of Americans and Eurasians, as already they ended the sovereignty of Europe’s nations and the liberty of their citizens.
The war will not end quickly because Russians are and are being methodical. They will destroy all resistance by self-installed USA-NATO officials because they have earned use of Rama’s Agni Astra. Russians can illuminate the tactical, operational, and strategic depths of the Eurasian battlespace. They have done so already to an unprecedented extent, all deeply welcomed by saints and sages in heaven.
Nazism, mixing Fascism with Imperialism, is at long last being ground into soil nutrient. The nations do not accept the manners of perverts.
E X P O S I T I O N – 4
1- When at war with a heavy industrial power, restore the Regimental command level between Brigade and Battalion command levels.
2- Armed Force of any kind must be Joint Force — Space Force, Air Force, Cyber Force, Sea Force, Land Force — under unified command at all command levels.
3- The mission of the Land Force guides the operation of the Armed [Joint] Force.
4- Differentiate Armed Force structure as between war with a light industrial power and war with a heavy industrial power:
- Joint Force Brigade Combat Teams (BCTs) and Battalion Task Forces (BN-TFs) against a light industrial power;
- Armed [Joint] Force classical military organization (adding Regiment between Brigade and Battalion) against a heavy industrial power.
5- Never war with a heavy industrial power on another continent.
- The USA can have no justification, no casus belli, for waging war with a heavy industrial power on another continent. As of today, The USA have no justification, no casus belli, for waging war on any continent because no other heavy industrial power stands on their own continent.
E X P O S I T I O N – 5
The USA maintain a Regular Armed Force sufficient to drive a foreign force backed by their own heavy industry from off territory belonging to The USA: The USA Motherland / Homeland and her island salients overseas. US Armed Force presents as a Joint Force at every level of command and with classical military organization, adding Regiment between Brigade and Battalion.
In addition, The USA maintain a Special Armed Force sufficient to punish a foreign force backed by light industry — wake ’em up — who essay to harm US sovereign interests. Americans’ or foreigners’ private interests abroad cannot become a casus belli for an introduction abroad of US punitive force. This US Armed Force presents as an array of Joint Force BCTs and / or BN-TFs, as needed, under a unified Joint Force HQ.
Foreign persons having private interests in USA-based organizations are not allowed to vote in the affairs of such organizations, either as stockholders or as board members, if their native country acts in a manner unfriendly to The USA.
E X P O S I T I O N – 6
Three major domestic policy updates are required to support US Armed Force redesign for current and anticipated conditions:
(1) US system of education focuses on math and engineering,
(2) US service academy graduation requirements focus on math and engineering, and
(3) US industrial base focus on homeland defense to foster national sovereignty and territorial integrity rather than ramping private profit.
E X P O S I T I O N – 7
Alternatives to US foreign policy establishment jargon, such as liberal internationalism, community of nations, our democracy, rules-based international order, allies, partners, autocratic nations, democratic nations, competitors, strategic ambiguity, restraint, checks and balances, block, sanction, containment, etc.:
Respect
Colleagues
Common Sense
Friendly Nations
Talk, Don’t Shoot
Strategic Engineering
International Community
Correlation Of Interests For Mutual Benefit
Strategic Cooperation / Strategic Correlation
E X P O S I T I O N – 8
Trade / finance geeks around the world — the guys working the exchange floors, computer monitors, and upper offices — see and discuss that they will lose bigly if they don’t play with the emerging markets for non-dollar-denominated trade and finance.
One sees more and more indications of this. Concurrently, Arab enemies (Saud and Qatar) who support rival Salafi gangs, themselves financed and armed also by CIA-USAID, see the same thing. This makes speaks together desirable — and also with Iranians, Arabs’ habitually despised enemies.
Saud and Iran talked in Brazil — neutral territory — during the recent anti-Lula protest civil disorders in Brasilia, disorders written, directed, and staged there [incompetently] by CIA. Salafi (Saud) and Hizbollah (Iran) factions run deep and wide on the Latin American Continent. But the nations themselves have much to discuss that is to mutual benefit.
The already extant multipolar opportunities in trade / finance / currency are too attractive for any trade / finance geek with IQ above room temperature to resist wanting to play among.
Nuland-CIA-USAID have no weapons this side of assassination to prevent the high-roller geeks and nation states from doing just that. The geeks alone can wastebasket Neocons‘ unipolarity because they inhabit the same household Neocons call home: City of London, Park Avenue, and Wall Street.
E X P O S I T I O N – 9
In order to win a modern war, a nation must be able to operate a superior if not supreme Fully Networked ISR-Strike umbrella over the battlespace, which itself will be larger and more complicated by networks than expected.
Because of intervening air, water, and land, even if a nation has superior or supreme ISR, even globe-over, said nation cannot support on a continent other than their own Strike assets in quantity sufficient to force a decision (win).
In precisely this condition USA officials today find themselves vis-à-vis their war in the Ukraine against the EU and Russia. Not even nuclear Strike assets would avail their purpose to kill Russians and dismember the EU and Russia because using the same would obviate said officials’ need to plan for their years in assisted living.
Today, the nations’ only enemies are oligarchs running drug, finance, government, government policy, and education cartels. Current US and NATO officials and their companion oligarchs belong to those cartels, some even help own them. Absent those officials and oligarchs, The USA, Germany, France, Russia, China, etc. have no reason to war amongst themselves or to maintain the NATO structure.
Of the two types of warfare, defensive and offensive, only the former is legitimate, legal, and moral. Defensive warfare must include offensive (Strike) capability, but its motivation must be entirely defensive. Offensive warfare is illegitimate, illegal, and immoral because its motivation is self-aggrandizement.
Omni-
Oligarch
Vicki
Nuland
R E D E S I G N – U S – A R M E D – F O R C E,
R E O R I E N T – U S – O L I G A R C H S
In 2010, Angelo Codevilla noted phenomenology extant and predictable from what he called The Ruling Class and The Country Class, who together comprise The USA. His introductory section I quote in full:
As over-leveraged investment houses began to fail in September 2008, the leaders of the Republican and Democratic parties, of major corporations, and opinion leaders stretching from the National Review magazine (and the Wall Street Journal) on the right to the Nation magazine on the left, agreed that spending some $700 billion to buy the investors’ “toxic assets” was the only alternative to the U.S. economy’s “systemic collapse.” In this, President George W. Bush and his would-be Republican successor John McCain agreed with the Democratic candidate, Barack Obama. Many, if not most, people around them also agreed upon the eventual commitment of some 10 trillion nonexistent dollars in ways unprecedented in America. They explained neither the difference between the assets’ nominal and real values, nor precisely why letting the market find the latter would collapse America. The public objected immediately, by margins of three or four to one.
When this majority discovered that virtually no one in a position of power in either party or with a national voice would take their objections seriously, that decisions about their money were being made in bipartisan backroom deals with interested parties, and that the laws on these matters were being voted by people who had not read them, the term “political class” came into use. Then, after those in power changed their plans from buying toxic assets to buying up equity in banks and major industries but refused to explain why, when they reasserted their right to decide ad hoc on these and so many other matters, supposing them to be beyond the general public’s understanding, the American people started referring to those in and around government as the “ruling class.” And in fact Republican and Democratic office holders and their retinues show a similar presumption to dominate and fewer differences in tastes, habits, opinions, and sources of income among one another than between both and the rest of the country. They think, look, and act as a class.
Although after the election of 2008 most Republican office holders argued against the Troubled Asset Relief Program, against the subsequent bailouts of the auto industry, against the several “stimulus” bills and further summary expansions of government power to benefit clients of government at the expense of ordinary citizens, the American people had every reason to believe that many Republican politicians were doing so simply by the logic of partisan opposition. After all, Republicans had been happy enough to approve of similar things under Republican administrations. Differences between Bushes, Clintons, and Obamas are of degree, not kind. Moreover, 2009-10 establishment Republicans sought only to modify the government’s agenda while showing eagerness to join the Democrats in new grand schemes, if only they were allowed to. Sen. Orrin Hatch continued dreaming of being Ted Kennedy, while Lindsey Graham set aside what is true or false about “global warming” for the sake of getting on the right side of history. No prominent Republican challenged the ruling class’s continued claim of superior insight, nor its denigration of the American people as irritable children who must learn their place. The Republican Party did not disparage the ruling class, because most of its officials are or would like to be part of it.
Never has there been so little diversity within America’s upper crust. Always, in America as elsewhere, some people have been wealthier and more powerful than others. But until our own time America’s upper crust was a mixture of people who had gained prominence in a variety of ways, who drew their money and status from different sources and were not predictably of one mind on any given matter. The Boston Brahmins, the New York financiers, the land barons of California, Texas, and Florida, the industrialists of Pittsburgh, the Southern aristocracy, and the hardscrabble politicians who made it big in Chicago or Memphis had little contact with one another. Few had much contact with government, and “bureaucrat” was a dirty word for all. So was “social engineering.” Nor had the schools and universities that formed yesterday’s upper crust imposed a single orthodoxy about the origins of man, about American history, and about how America should be governed. All that has changed.
Today’s ruling class, from Boston to San Diego, was formed by an educational system that exposed them to the same ideas and gave them remarkably uniform guidance, as well as tastes and habits. These amount to a social canon of judgments about good and evil, complete with secular sacred history, sins (against minorities and the environment), and saints. Using the right words and avoiding the wrong ones when referring to such matters — speaking the “in” language — serves as a badge of identity. Regardless of what business or profession they are in, their road up included government channels and government money because, as government has grown, its boundary with the rest of American life has become indistinct. Many began their careers in government and leveraged their way into the private sector. Some, e.g., Secretary of the Treasury Timothy Geithner, never held a non-government job. Hence whether formally in government, out of it, or halfway, America’s ruling class speaks the language and has the tastes, habits, and tools of bureaucrats. It rules uneasily over the majority of Americans not oriented to government.
The two classes have less in common culturally, dislike each other more, and embody ways of life more different from one another than did the 19th century’s Northerners and Southerners — nearly all of whom, as Lincoln reminded them, “prayed to the same God.” By contrast, while most Americans pray to the God “who created and doth sustain us,” our ruling class prays to itself as “saviors of the planet” and improvers of humanity. Our classes’ clash is over “whose country” America is, over what way of life will prevail, over who is to defer to whom about what. The gravity of such divisions points us, as it did Lincoln, to Mark’s Gospel: “if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand.”
In this language, Angelo commends parameters, zeitgeist, to guide opportunities to redesign US Armed Force and Reorient US Oligarchs for proper conduct in modern conditions.
Quote – Imitate – Create
Never Copy
Artillery Conquers
Infantry Occupies
Homeland Defense
The Same Waters That Keep
Them Out Keep Us In
Multipolar Multivariance
The Force is God.
In legitimate statecraft, The Force operates as three instrument:
Diplomacy
Finance
War-Fighting
US Armed Force
Consider:
Instead of The JCS, two US Armed Forces — together comprising The US Armed Force — serve under SecDef:
- A Regular US Armed Force (RUSAF) configured full-spectrum for Homeland Defense;
- A Special US Armed Force SUSAF) configured full-spectrum for rare and brief Punitive Expeditions.
SecDef establishes a TRADOC for RUSAF, a TRADOC for SUSAF, and a TRADOC for total The US Armed Force, which includes national Diplomacy and Finance components from State and Treasury, respectively.
Both US Armed Forces comprising The US Armed Force are Unified Joint Forces comprising, as needed, elements of the Five Forms of Service — Space, Air, Cyber, Sea, Land — as well as national Diplomacy and Finance components.
Both US Armed Forces operate under unified command and both base only and entirely on US sovereign territory. No US Armed Force, or element thereof, bases on another nation’s sovereign territory.
RUSAF operates under the RUSAF commander and SecDef as:
- five (5) standing Corps at full battle strength
- four (4) standing Corps at half or less of battle strength
- eighteen (18) standing Corps at a quarter or less of battle strength
- twenty seven (27) Corps on paper, including complete, constantly updated TOEs and potential Officer and NCO cadres.
SUSAF operates as nine (9) COCOMs — experimentally discussed here — under the SUSAF commander and SecDef. Based entirely in The USA, COCOMs are the Diplomacy, Finance, and War-Fighting eyes and ears of The USA.
SUSAF replaces CIA, USAID, and NED.
Elements of SUSAF may be tasked, as determined by SecDef, to operate temporarily under a RUSAF Corps commander.
RUSAF and SUSAF may joint base on US sovereign territory. US Armed Force base commanders and their staffs belong to RUSAF.
RUSAF full-strength Corps base two on each coast and one in the middle. Half-and quarter-strength RUSAF Corps base on current US military properties, including National Guard properties.
Half-strength RUSAF Corps base one each in the middle of the border with Canada and Mexico and one each in Hawaii and Alaska.
Half-strength RUSAF Corps manage and train for battle readiness within one (1) month of a call to mobilize. These Corps also maintain conversation with municipal police and county sheriff departments, rifle clubs, churches, mosques, temples, synagogues, town councils, and JROTC programs.
Quarter-strength RUSAF Corps manage and train for battle readiness within three (3) months of a call to mobilize. These Corps also maintain coordination with official State Militias and County Civil Defense Battalions.
RUSAF Corps that are on paper only can achieve battle readiness within five months of a call to mobilize.
An East Coast Corps protects US properties in the Caribbean Sea. A West Coast Corps protects US properties in the Pacific Ocean.
The staff shops — S1/S2, G1/G2, etc., — of the commander at each command level of RUSAF and SUSAF, from Company up, operate with at least one officer from each of the Five Forms of Service: Space, Air, Cyber, Sea, Land. One of these officers in each staff shop is designated leader of the shop.
Staff shops battalion and up have a national Diplomacy and Finance component.
Radio-Computer communications between elements of The US Armed Force is standardized and maximized from POTUS to squad level.
Weaponry, training, tasking, and unit configuration are designed for the two missions of The US Armed Force: Homeland Defense and occasional Punitive Operations. These include, but are not limited to:
- Inexpensive small and swarming weapons.
- Electronic Warfare, Air Defense, and Strike weapons, short-range, long-range, stand-off, and loitering.
- Hypersonic artillery.
For astute military planners, Kairos (the auspicious time) is more important than Chronos (clock time).
US Oligarchs
Consider:
The USA grind themselves into a parallel two-track economy, one State Capitalism and the other Free Enterprise.
Both tracks are commodity-based rather than finance-based. Both tracks are visible, but rarely these days are they seen as partners, which they are and only can be considering today’s weapons environment.
State Capitalism is for strategic industries, of which there are several. Free Enterprise is for everything else.
Seen this way, economy-sovereignty and domestic-foreign policy discussions have a chance to reorient our bumptious oligarchs from selfish private agendas to necessary public prosperities. This is done so that other issues may be settled amicably.
Americans do not tolerate titles of nobility or the pretentious claptrap attending them.
Before you can do business, you must have law and order. Before you can have excess wealth, you must have government who protect you and your competitors.
In order for a nation’s government to protect themselves and their fellow citizens, a nation’s strategic industries must operate in a framework of State Capitalism. Strategic industries include:
- agriculture,
- textiles,
- gases,
- liquids,
- energy,
- metals,
- woods,
- medicines,
- engineering,
- weapons,
- transportation,
- communication,
- schools,
- banking,
In order for citizens of a nation to be happy, everything else — religion, food, household goods, information, entertainment, property, fiscal policy — must operate in a framework of Free Enterprise.
Humanity are not a cheap date. We are high-maintenance personnel.
Citizens of a nation are not trivial. They are high-value entities as individuals, as groups, and as a nation. They are in fact clothes God wears. Each and every one of them is exactly that.
Oligarchs are people who believe they own or control wealth in excess of their normal needs and should own or control wealth available to others as well.
There is neither harm nor wrong in having excess wealth available to oneself. Call such people Benefactors rather than Oligarchs.
There is harm and wrong in thinking one owns or controls excess wealth available to one — any amount of wealth, for that matter — as well as wealth available to others as well. There is even more harm and wrong in thinking excess wealth available to one entitles one to deference, political power, and prestige ahead of one’s brothers and sisters of the human race living and working in this breathing world.
Call such people oligarchs. They are criminal personalities with an excess of money available to them and therefore capability to inflict harm of various amounts and extents on fellow and foreign citizens
Oligarchs are such as have gone over to the dark side, to the realm of conceit and its agent, deceit. Oligarchs’ interest is stabilization of what they imagine is their supreme position vis-à-vis fellow citizens. Conceit makes them fear everyone. So they generate narratives, ideologies, and degenerate information (e.g., news) to protect their conceit from scrutiny and ruin. They also hire private armies to terrorize, extort, and assassinate scrutinizers.
Oligarchs work for themselves, not for their country. They are inorganic relative to their country’s times and teleology. Ideologies and narratives they conjure and trumpet operate to a nation’s citizens as religions. Being on the dark side, soaked in deceit, ideologies and narratives are vectors of religious bigotries.
A duty of government is to eliminate in the nation influence of oligarchs’ religious bigotry, their self-serving narratives, their groundless gospels.
To eliminate influence of US oligarchs in US strategic industries is a reason, among others, to speed towards a parallel two-track US national economy, one State Capitalism, the other Free Enterprise.
MICIMATT exist to serve the teleological objective of US national sovereignty and territorial integrity.
One class of oligarch deserves special attention: civilians in the General Schedule Government Service (GS) and the Senior Executive Service (SES).
These are known variously as The Deep State, The Government, The Elites, The Ruling Class, and The Administrative State.
These are the oligarchs who when POTUS, Congress, or SCOTUS says, Jump!, they sit, and when POTUS, Congress, or SCOTUS says, Sit!, they jump.
A civilian’s GS or SES billet must not extend beyond five (5) years and their total GS / SES service must not extend beyond nine (9) years.
Moreover, a civilian may be hired to a GS or SES billet only after serving a minimum of twelve (12) years, excluding schooling, in a trade or profession other than teaching. Teachers, clergy, students, entertainers, journalists, celebrities, and think tank / NGO experts are ineligible for GS and SES service. Their emotions run in all the wrong directions for the stewardship of powers and responsibilities of government.
R E A D I N G S
A Select Reading List
10 U.S. Code Subtitle A – General Military Law
The Great War: Groping for a Solution
Aleksei Alekseevich Brusilov (and here)
Alexander Andreyevich Svechin (and here)
Briefing by Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, Moscow, December 29, 2022
State Of The Nation Address By Viktor Orbán, February 18, 2023
Presidential Address To The Federal Assembly, Vladimir Putin, February 21, 2023
David Sant, The Dire Significance Of Putin’s Feb 21 Speech (PDF)
- These three statements and events together should tell the collective West that Russia has just said “Get off my porch!”, and cocked the forty-five.
Presidential Greetings on Defender of the Fatherland Day, Vladimir Putin, February 23, 2023
Address by the President of the Russian Federation, 24 February 2023
- For the United States and its allies, it is a policy of containing Russia, with obvious geopolitical dividends. For our country, it is a matter of life and death, a matter of our historical future as a nation. This is not an exaggeration; this is a fact. It is not only a very real threat to our interests but to the very existence of our state and to its sovereignty. It is the red line which we have spoken about on numerous occasions. They have crossed it.
. . . . . - I would now like to say something very important for those who may be tempted to interfere in these developments from the outside. No matter who tries to stand in our way or all the more so create threats for our country and our people, they must know that Russia will respond immediately, and the consequences will be such as you have never seen in your entire history. No matter how the events unfold, we are ready. All the necessary decisions in this regard have been taken. I hope that my words will be heard.
Another Bill of Particulars, this time from the PRC. The latter parts get more than a little hypocritical, but the overall point is true and on target. I am sure other nations take it as such. The tone is mature, not like what we got years ago from PRC officials. Russia today is not the USSR, and China today is not Mao Zedong and his crazy wife.
Washington, New York, and London run today on hubris — I am God and can do what I want, which is all good because I say it is and I can — and hubris, as Tucker Carlson points out, is a mental sickness in need of treatment and commitment to a sanitarium.
US Hegemony And Its Perils
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic Of China
I think where this is first going to get felt is at the overseas US military bases. That is so clearly colonial and threatening it’ll be the first thing other nations, qua nations, can see to do about throwing off the hegemon. A weakness of Bills of Particulars such as this one is their use of the word America or USA to indicate the small minority of mental defectives with hands laying on powers of Americans’ US government. They are not America. They are a power foreign to America and Americans. Americans would not do what Toria Nuland is doing in, for example, Ukraine. Americans have no interest in doing that. A minority of America-borns, mostly but not entirely of one ethnicity, have interest in that: colonizing Russia so as to control and consume the universe.
Blinken ponders the post-Ukraine-war order
How Democracy Can Win
The Right Way to Counter Autocracy
We were promised ‘economic shock and awe’ against Russia
- News Flash Andrew: (1) No one in Washington D.C. can do strategic thinking because (2) the nation’s parents and schools raised three generations, and continuing, on fraudulent knowledge and ideological bigotry.
Evidence Of Insanity
Essays experimenting with AARs regarding the Russian SMO against self-installed USA-NATO officials troublemaking in Eurasia are collected here under title, The Art Of War.
Q U I C K – T H O U G H T S
Mutually assured destruction (MAD) is possible now with enhanced conventional explosives, still this side of nuclear. So essentially warfare itself is at an end, especially peer-to-peer. Peer-to-peer warfare would be mutually assured annihilation this side of nuclear exchange. Ergo, the military mission must be re-conceived as homeland defense rather than overseas operations.
The wild dreams of the mad bombers (Jewish, Anglican, and Jesuit atheists, our MICIMATT oligarchs) have come to their end game. Such people are no longer functional, respectable human beings. There is no more peer-to-peer conventional warfare. It’s over.
Also no more near-peer warfare. Peer-to-peer and near-peer warfare are both MAD, just as nuclear warfare is.
That’s one lesson of the Russian SMO in Ukraine. Another is that, in conventional warfare The USA and her NATO vassals are less even than a near-peer to Russia. We have the same condition as does the PRC in that regard.
A nation’s Armed Force has the irreplaceable mission of homeland defense. It should be designed and maintained at ready so that anybody who even dabbles in invasion of the homeland is assured of destruction thereon, at least.
These conditions demand a complete, top-to-bottom reorganization of The US Armed Force, to include all US National Service Academies.
Modern artillery makes peer-to-peer and near-peer warfare utterly stupid.
One might say that Pax Americana has been replaced by Pax Universalis:
To have a Pax Americana in history’s current condition of development, The USA would have to engage in peer-to-peer or near-peer warfare, which would be MAD, not peace.
So the next step in the teleology of inter-nation relations is Pax Universalis. Nothing short of that is reasonable or even possible with respect to peace, stability, and prosperity of any nation whatsoever, large or small, weak or strong.
It’s all in the Artillery. The masculine principle is the Russian artillery — guided and protected by their C4ISR, Air Defense (AD), and Electronic Warfare (EW) assets — which has won them the day in the Ukraine.
C4ISR, Air Defense (AD), and Electronic Warfare (EW) assets can be considered cool artillery, in contrast to rockets, howitzers, mortars, and aircraft, which are hot artillery.
The feminine principle in warfare is the Infantry supported by more artillery.
Christianity is a metaphysics, not a morality. The interest is in what is, not in what should be. If you want to get involved in what should be, be a Jew, an Anglican, or a Jesuit. They have plenty to keep you going for many lifetimes of grief.
Nature can take care of Herself. She does not need your ignorant and bigoted intervention. She is good on her own. Trust Her. She knows what she is doing without your stupid ideas about what She should be doing.
Accept Her decisions. Enjoy Her decisions. They are meant for your benefit, your enjoyment as well as edification.
Enrich your vocabulary. This will provide you tools to make corrections and build things that are useful.
Expanding vocabulary brings God, who disappears miasma.
John Paul Jones fought against the Ottomans for Catherine The Great. Americans don’t have the stink-eye for Russians. A huge cohort of Jews, Anglicans, and Jesuits do. Americans don’t have the stink-eye for Christian Russia. A huge cohort of Jews, Anglicans, and Jesuits do. Americans don’t have have the stink-eye for multi-religious, multi-racial Russia. A huge cohort of Jews, Anglicans, and Jesuits do.
The truth is so simple. However, in order to see or grasp it, one must undergo either great distress or great consolation. Butter does not appear until milk undergoes the churn.
No think tank, salary, or position can get one to see or grasp the simple truth of any situation. Nor any degree, certification, background, social network, etc. . . . none of that conduces to realizing the truth, none at all.
The truth is found only in great loveliness, in grandeur, which is also ultimate togetherness, unity. That unity is among friends. The truth cannot be discovered apart from communion with friends.
Just simply interlocutors, arguers, debaters . . . none of those contexts can get one anywhere near the truth. In fact, they drive one away from it.
Some persons wield power in excess of some other persons’ power, but no person wields authority in excess of another person’s authority. Authority is equally distributed amongst all persons. Each person has it in equal amount with every other.
There are differentials in power, but there are no differentials in authority. So, if someone thinks their authority exceeds that of someone else by virtue of power they wield, that person becomes a legitimate target for track and annihilate.
I am sure Bonhoeffer’s thoughts came to such awareness with respect to Herr Hitler.
Liberal equals degenerate and arrogant. Conservative equals brutal and arrogant. Conservative and Liberal meet at arrogance. That is why neither one appeals to Americans. Americans are attracted to men and women who have quiet in God.
Almighty God is the President of Presidents, the Prime Minster of Prime Minster, the Chief Legislator of Chief Legislators, the Chief Justice of Chief Justices, the Generalissimo of Generalissimos,, the Supreme Admiral of Fleet Admirals, the Doctor Maximus of Doctors, the Theologian par excellence of Theologians.
This is the starting point of Political Philosophy. In view of this fact, the duties of government are to protect and provide but not to promote.
By universal acclaim, senior officialdom of Washington D.C. and many States present as certifiably insane. They are also drug-addled, disunited, and incompetent. There is no need to discourse on the details.
Needed are looks at, calculations of, and plans for what obtains on the other side of these poor people’s eclipse by apocalypse.
In a word, that is homeland defense, based on the reality that defensive warfare is the most successful — because it is the only just warfare — and on the Moravian Guidon:
- In essentials, unity.
- In nonessentials, liberty.
- In all things, love.
Whatever else happened there, The US Military did not have staying power sufficient to bring forth decisive victory over re-constituted Taliban in Afghanistan.
This is because The USA do not have staying power sufficient to fight anybody else’s war on their own continent.
The USA are blessed with being an island nation protected by seas and is therefore required to design her military capability for the purpose of homeland defense and an occasional — and brief (!) — punitive expedition abroad, and not for any long-haul overseas, regular campaign (!) .
The USA have neither means, history of success, nor authority to fight other peoples’ wars on their own continent.
Much less have The USA authority to impose their will on other nations.
Russians harbor nothing like the inconsolable ethno-religious enmity a huge cohort of American and European Jewish atheists harbor against Russia and Germany, Russians and Germans.
Vicki Nuland and cohort, in their devotion to the Morgenthau Plan, are on their way to self-destruction. One wishes them all success.
The common thread uniting Jewish atheists — aka Neocons — Clintonistas, Anglicans, Jesuits, and RINOs is their atheism. The mimic their Sicarii forebears.
The recent queer movement came from atheistic Jews and, more recently, Moslems. Christians always have had queers amongst them, but usually they have been smart enough — and until recently pestered by Anglican and Jesuit atheists — not to let queers dominate Christian culture or the churches.
Once atheists, bumptious as always, brought forward queers as admirable personalities, enlisting to their cause penal powers of government, ecclesial judicatories discarded their justification. Episcopalians — hereditary leader cadre of The USA — ordained women. Later, Jesuits festooned their properties with rainbow flags.
Since 1972, it has been open run by civil and ecclesial officials — all without authority — against Christianity, spiritual practice, reason, reality, and moral society, which is to say, against anything normal.
With rare exceptions, women and statecraft are incompatible.
Authoritarian governments, whatever their ideological religion, have to employ propaganda (narrative) because the truth would subvert their claim to authority and positions for administering penal measures in a nation’s society.
Relying on propaganda, therefore, is a weak move. The strong move is simply to tell the truth. Propaganda never works, except to get a whole lot of people sick, poor, unhappy, or dead.
Revolution In Military Affairs (RMA) is an ongoing process which brings to the fore the diplomatic asset of a nation. At this time, The USA has no diplomatic corps worthy of the name. There is a diplomatic corps but not a presence of diplomacy as such. This makes The USA weak and reviled in world affairs, as is evident all over this breathing world.
Spiritual discipline is the solution, starting with the family and then education emphasis on mathematics and engineering. That’s the solution. Learn how to please God and learn how to calculate such things as Markov Processes.
With respect to government officials — diplomats, stewards of the currency, warriors — spiritual discipline means removal of ego from equations, calculations, assessments, policies. The chief virtue of government officials is impartiality cultivated by humility.
Government officials must at all times keep in mind that God is the force. We humans and other creatures are instruments only.
The force is God. His instruments as history are men, women, children, and all creatures. This is the core truth, the real reality of statecraft.
Team Russia calculated that they grasped that they embodied that truth as early as November 2021, which is why they sent The USA and EU in December 2021 a letter offering to establish mutually beneficial indivisible security in their west.
Russia felt they had networked ISR-Strike capability under unified command sufficient to defeat NATO and take down their ambition to ravish Russia. And they were correct in that assessment. Now, today, they are putting that truth into practice.
Americans are hag-ridden by a cliquey claque of MICIMATT oligarchs who deform and degrade everything they touch because they are atheists: professors, government officials, financiers, entertainers, NGO minions, industrialists.
Their goal of world domination is unachievable, and they are become angry in frustration at the fact that their moral standing and operational capacities come short of their achievements and desires.
This will not last for much longer. The claque want to get rid of Americans for not living up to their demands. Americans will get rid of the claque for lording it over them.
Thanks to Russia for giving Euro-American oligarchs — fascists all — a wake up call, a ray of sunshine.
To the western Ukrainians: you believed lies you were told. God will not protect you, no one will, because you believed lies.
Americans who believe lies told them by their officialdom will have the same fate as credulous Ukrainians. No one will protect you, not even God.
God can protect His own, remember, very easily, and He always does. His own, that is, who are devoted to Him, who look to Him for protection, not to politicians and magistrates.
It’s all in the feeling. Not the emotion, the feeling. God judges us according to our feelings, not our actions.
This war, this battle by ethno-religious atheists against Russia — but also against the EU / WEF, who also are atheists — is managed, actually, from India, a neutral country. The dethronement of Jewish, Anglican, and Jesuit atheists — Neocons, MICIMATT fascists — in The USA-UK and Anglosphere generally is being managed from India.
Officials of The USA, in office legitimately or not, can never match — much less over-match — the moral-military quality of Russia using the assumptions of Jewish, Anglican, and Jesuit atheistic oligarchs. They just can’t do it, don’t have it in them to do it, using the assumptions of those oligarchs.
The USA can never match the statecraft of Russia relying on assumptions native to the cabal of Euro-American Jewish, Anglican, and Jesuit atheists.
The only way to restore the ancient Dharma in The West is radically, fundamentally to practice and protect cultural systems, religious norms, governmental architectures, and personal duties which support Latin Christian Civilization, aka The West. We are in the condition of such need today.
There can be no gap between the forms of Christian Culture and the Christianity which is their content. This is true of both the Franco-Latin Church and Franco-Latin Culture and the Greco-Russian Church and Greco-Russian Culture.
One day, these churches and cultures must abjure the disputes and feelings of the Schism of 1054.
F R O M – T H E – C O M M E N T – T H R E A D S
Russian hammers are falling on NATO in the Ukraine, at least two of them: north from the Zaporozhye area towards Pavlograd and west from the Soledar-Bakhmut-Mariinka towards Kramatorsk-Sloviansk, with a hook thrown up behind Severs’k.
- North from Zaporozhye towards Kremenchuk, south from Russia past Sumy towards Cherkasy, and south from Belarus towards Kovel’ and Lutsk may develop.
CIA director was just in Kiev telling Z his appearance before Congress really was his gold-watch-retirement event, minute-of-fame, and get-gone-party. Z’s advisor quits next day, his interior ministry chiefs die the next day. Not Blinken, Burns. State is an outrigger of CIA. Today, Z’s officials are being fired, killed, or resigning. Z personally is a danger to CIA.
I surmise Poland is CIA-State’s new Ukraine for attacking Russia and that CIA-State have lined up a false flag nuke in The USA at a US military base — Fort Knox, echoes of Goldfinger, Campbell (?) or a packed sports stadium in the Mid-West (?) — as a pretext for throwing US-Polish force eastward into Belarus towards Chernihiv and south-eastward into the Ukraine toward Uzhgorod, to dare a Russian vector from Belarus dropping west of Liviv towards Stryi.
All drug-addled fantasies, of course, as NATO’s officialdom in the Ukraine disintegrates. Operations already underway show incompetence of USA-NATO weapons, commanders, general staffs, and fighting units, who comprise now the third “Ukrainian” army Russia has slaughtered in body and reputation.
Nuland is now a blimp like Clinton, a sign of women who have given up on themselves and everyone, who have no intention of living peacefully, cheerfully in natural human community.
France has not been able to defend herself since her defeat by Russia. Germany and Italy have not been able to defend themselves since their defeat by Russia. Great Britain has not been able to defend herself since her besting by Russia.
Now a handful of perverts and reprobates — Neocons, Fascists, Professors, Entertainers, a veritable death cult — essay to make America unable to defend herself by subjecting her to defeat by Russia.
Russia and America are, in fact, friends, very good and deeply historical friends, three-way co-religionists, which is what Euro-American perverts and reprobates — fascists — hate about us.
Today, geo-politics, geo-economics, and geo-strategics are about weaponry. Not wunderwaffen, weaponry in general and hypersonics in particular. What you may think you know about weaponry ain’t necessarily so.
Military faculties and staffs were well-advised to assess effects and needs of any-time, any-where, unopposable artillery fire — sub-nuclear —and what that portends for Joint Force missions and TOEs as well as national strategic, theatre strategic, operational, and tactical combat rationales and doctrines altogether.
US DOD need a TRADOC for The US Armed [Joint] Force. Wars are won, lost, foresworn, or prevented at the operational and strategic depths, not the tactical depth. One resists the appeal of tactical minutiae during study and assessments of war and battle scenarios. Also, one remembers constantly that every war is unique to itself. History never repeats and is never predictive of a specific future. Every moment in statecraft, war, and peace — and every other human endeavor — is fresh, new, unexpected, and unprecedented. Also, the future starts from the present, not the past.
USAF always trying to say they can do everything, which is another way of saying they are always searching for what they should be doing as an independent force detached from Land Force / Army. There isn’t anything for them to do apart from Army. There isn’t anything for the other four components of US Armed Force to do apart from Army.
It’s not happenstance that Shoigu and Gerasimov are both Russian Army Officers. It’s not happenstance that the Chinese Air Force is the PLAAF and the Chinese Navy is the PLAN (PLA = People’s Liberation Army).
Reading this I realized that, like the French Court of 1794+, today’s British Toffs (Labor-Conservative) quite literally have no means intellectual or moral to understand or cope with what these demonstrations are about, why they do this, or what to do about them.
The Toffs literally do not know. They really, actually do not know the why, the what, or the how. Moreover, they have inside them no means of knowing.
They don’t like the demonstrators, wish them to go away, however, the Toffs have no resources inside them to grasp what’s going on, why these things happen, and what to do about them . . . other than shoot the lot and hope the rest will get the memo, slink away chastened, and leave their betters to live their lives without interruption.
But, to understand, nay to sympathize, this is not happening because those tools of normal life are long not inside the Toffs, scrubbed clean out of them, as it were, over decades by the simple expedient of unhitching the churches and religion from God.
It is a remarkable situation. We have our own version of it here, of course, with our Neocons / Neoliberals. Starts in the universities, ironically, and oozes outwards from there. Universities are a nation’s institutions most easily made enemies of The Church, exactly as St. Francis of Assisi saw it of them.
Aurelien writes:
. . . . But in the best of cases, with no enemy on the frontiers, with weak economies and massive social problems, is the kind of programme I have sketched out above, and which would be a minimum for “rearmament”, even remotely feasible?
I commented (with edits here):
No. Because it is unnecessary. Old saying: God is the guy who, when the cupboard is bare, suggests you look in that book on your shelf into which, decades ago, you folded some cash against a rainy day. In this case: Talk, Don’t Shoot!
Thanks for this essay, an excellent description for situational awareness. Thing is, it’s not a problem, it’s an opportunity.
Why assume that Armed Force must be at the ready to move east to oppose Russia or west to oppose China?
How about to sit down and talk with them blasted megalithic morons, them dirt floor-dwelling, vodka swilling, barbaric Rooskies, who never heard of indoor plumbing, much less hot and cold running water, or elevators, and then, low and behold, actually keep your word once given? How costly is keeping one’s word? What number of high-cost budget conferences, ad hoc tiger teams, must occur for that to happen? How much in evening escort and other venal costs does it take to make agreements sincerely and then honor them with implementing deeds?
1- Modern weaponry, especially rocket artillery networked with ISR (ISR-Strike Integration), changes everything, and that fact is NOT contemplated in this assessment for situational awareness.
2- An island nation — USA, GB — cannot now fight and win a war with a heavily industrialized country sitting on another continent. The logistics alone are impossible, in addition to the myriad of other factors itemized in this essay. Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan proved that the logistics — including moral and psychological logistics — can’t be done even against a light industrialized country sitting on another continent!
3- In modern conditions — weaponry, comms, ignorant, egotistical, and incompetent officials — there are only now two reasons for a nation to maintain Armed Force:
a- to protect the homeland from malicious entry by a heavy or a light industrial power, and
b- to administer sharp but limited-duration punitive force against a light industrial power serving harm to said nation’s state property.
Harm administered to overseas private interests of a nation’s citizens by an overseas power — whether heavy or light industrial — is not a casus belli for deploying that nation’s Armed Force.
The USA — actual Americans — will not and cannot self-defend now unless and until they school themselves and their children intensively in mathematics and engineering. And get rid of the GD dope and trips to Vegas. Their industrial base and their skill in statecraft — at root, being polite, seeking mutual benefit, and keeping the word once given — determine a nation’s ability to self-defend.
Not mentioned in this essay is the political fallout attending D-R UniParty abuse, misuse, derision, prosecution, harassment, and condemnation of Americans on account of their multivariance.
Also not mentioned are artificial reasons generated by US domestic security services for deploying anywhere domestically or overseas Armed Force belonging to The USA.
Also not mentioned: horrendous lying, false flags to justify overseas deployment of US Armed Force, and other unrelentingly self-aggrandizing actions by our so-called US Foreign Policy Establishment, CIA-USAID-State at their center like a black widow conducting her orchestra, so to speak.
France is unable to defend herself since her defeat by Russia. Germany and Italy are unable to defend themselves since their defeat by Russia. Great Britain is unable to defend herself since her besting by Russia 1941-present.
Now a handful of reprobates and perverts — Neocons, professors, entertainers — a veritable death cult — essay to make America unable to defend herself by subjecting her to defeat by Russia.
Russia and America are, in fact, friends, very good and deeply historical friends, fellow Christians, which is what Euro-American reprobates and perverts — Neocons, Fascists — hate most about us.
The USA and Russia always will be friends. Statesmen on both sides during the so-called Cold War knew that to be true and in pursuit thereof kept their hands off the triggers. The intrinsic character of Americans and Russians is like and complimentary to both. Talk, Don’t Shoot!
(Apologies for writing at such length. I have not had time to be brief.)
Jams O’Donnell
I have to object to the overall thrust of this article, in that it appears to give credence to the idea that there are no really guilty parties in the world – all is just a sequence of steps by individuals who cannot foresee the consequences of their intentionally limited actions, presumably all intended for the greater good, and that intentional evil is non-existent. This approach lets both individuals and governments off the hook of responsibility and blame.
Take, for example the current war in Ukraine. It is certainly true to say that there are a number of causes to be found for this war, and if some of them hadn’t existed then the war would not have occurred. But for complicated events such as this, causes as far as they are known, can be assigned a rating according to the amount they have contributed to the ultimate event.
A selection of these for the war could be:
Russian, Ukranian and European history and collective memory,
Some countries fear of neighbouring countries with offensive military power,
Fear of expansionist policies among neighbouring countries, and so on.
But it is clear that the main reason is a US policy of attaining and retaining hegemony over all other countries in the world, especially those not under it’s current control and which are seen as a threat – i.e. Russia, China and Iran. Is this a conspiracy theory? I don’t believe so. There is convincing evidence for this notion, which could be, and is, the subject of whole books by reputable authors. Briefly though:
Since 1945 (and before – but let’s keep this within limits) the US has conducted 200 odd wars, invasions, coups and bombings plus assorted assassinations, etc. (See American Journal of Public Health, June 2014. As the authors say there “the fact that one nation initiated more than 80% of all wars in the last seventy years does require an explanation.”) Most of these events are all unquestionably documented and proven, very often even admitted*, and this level of state crime is far in excess of that of any other country (although possibly the UK is a minor competitor, in that at one time or another it has invaded every country in the world, except for 22 mainly very small ones). This is indicative of a pattern of continuing criminality on the part of the US government. (A war of aggression is a war crime under international law. Targeted assassinations, coups, bombings, etc do not appear to be legal under any law).
The US is documented as being involved within the Ukraine for the past 30 odd years. A number of ‘think-tanks’ in the US have formulated and published plans which involve using the Ukraine to attack and weaken Russia. Some of the authors of these plans now hold posts in the US government. No proven connection, you say? I think the NRA takes a similar stance with regard to the huge number of mass shootings in the US.
Similarly, it could be said that while US firms are profiting from the war, this cannot be counted as a cause. However, there is a large amount of staff transfers, at high levels of responsibility, in both directions between the US Government and arms manufacturers, and also large party contributions from arms manufacturers to US politicians. To think that this is merely an expression of democracy or commerce in action would be extremely naive.
Before the war Russia published proposals to avoid the war. These were reasonable options and were similar to what the US itself expected and obtained after the Cuban missile crisis. The proposals were turned down by the US. So, without going any deeper into the matter (which would only reinforce my contention) it seems clear that, although there were many subsidiary reasons, the main cause of the war in the Ukraine, especially taking into account past US history, is US arrogance, aggression and greed.
I believe that this sort of analysis applies to most large scale events, and while you are right that there are many subsidiary causes, there usually can be found one or perhaps two or three main ones
* For example, in the Washington Post, June 27, 1993 you can find a list of nearly 50 political leaders whom the US tried to assassinate, some of them several times. Again, we see a pattern of criminality and disregard for common and international law at the very top of government.
I commented to O’Donnell:
Our host wants to see everything as in the horizontal dimension only. The vertical dimension everything is in as well is not allowed into the analytical method.
Pity.
George F. Kennan in 1997, on pushing NATO to Russia’s border.
I also commented to Aurelien:
Besides laying an ideological framework on reality, as ideologues of so-called liberalism do, and seeking explanation for the present in the past, as ideologues of so-called conservatism do, there is a third epistemological method: scrutinizing the phenomenologies of the present to discover what they say about themselves, sui generis, as patriotic and competent statesmen do. The Russian Markov made a mathematics for this.
And, Aurelien, what’s with this, paraphrasing, religion / the Bible is however God feels day by day?
Now, I could adduce Christians and Hindus — even Jews and Moslems — all being what you might call mystics, who could assert that religion / the Bible is however God feels day by day, but theirs would be to an end (dedication) yours is not (disdain, or at most generous, ignoring).
Law?!?!? We don’t need no stinking law.
There’s the rub, isn’t it? Lawyers made this mess, lawyers can’t clean it up because they made the mess for self-aggrandizement. The law only matters to people who believe it matters . . . until the actually-respected Big Law — Dharma — decides it’s the right time to reestablish proper behavior, protect the harmed, and punish evil doers.
Congress is also supposed to make a balanced budget. Do they? No, they don’t need no stinking balanced budget because they don’t recognize no stinking law — or intelligent convention — even if one says they do. Lawyers, politicians.
The only people who practice sophistry and ignore, even despise, the truth more than lawyers and politicians do are professors and pastors.
The truth is free for the asking, and just asking for it is hard work.
It must be of the spirit if we are to save the flesh, said General Mac Arthur to Congress. Americans must regain self-confidence and resolve to plan and make their future, revering their past. This is spiritual exercise. Lawyers and courts, qua lawyers and courts, cannot touch that realm even if they want to. Only persons can touch that realm, that sui generis and plenary authority Who resides in their hearts.
Were New York, London, Langley, and Washington D.C. wealthy with patriotic statesmen rather than flooded with conniving lawyers and compromised politicians, we would not be having this conversation.
We would enjoy one another in all our multivariance while honoring our ancestors with fetes and festoons. We would not consign our powers of government into the hands of perverts who cannot but meddle in the affairs of other nations, who demonize foreign officials to justify in their private minds ethno-religious enmities rightly renounced by them millennia ago.
We don’t need no stinking Orange Man Bad balloons. No statesman would consider retailing such an infantile pleading to incompetence.
FWIW, I concur that in international relations we behold an engineering problem, nay, opportunity, nay, sets of opportunities. I think economics and politics are lesser structural components in and of that task, those sets of tasks, not greater ones. I think seeing and saying the truth — calculating actual phenomenology sans search for historical precedents, of which none exist or can be explained (Heraclitus) — is the greater structural component of opportunities the nations face. Truth, not narrative, matters. All truth is present now. What is happening, not the goals one has, is the truth, and facing that fact (truth) is the structural strength required to build (engineer) prestige in the world whatever the time or epoch.
I have argued (1) that ancient Rome diversified, transformed, did not fall, (2) liberating powers of US government from self-aggrandizing perverts requires founding of a second political party, one for which I have proposed a name, The All American Party, (3) Soldiers make the best and perhaps the only true statesmen, and (4) that with very rare exceptions, women make terrible statesmen because their nesting instinct, which is intrinsic to the gender, thankfully, disposes them to see VUCA as threat rather than, as men see it, opportunity.
Some Americans, most of them of a specific ethno-religious ancestry, are attacking Europe and Russia using NATO and Zelensky’s Nazi backers. To say America is doing those nefarious acts is inaccurate and unfair.
Most Americans are either making plans, waiting, or hoping for their bad-deed-doing countrymen to be quit of powers of government and opportunity to abuse other nations.
A second political party, a new one, is needed for doing that.
The USA are a large self-organizing, self-correcting national system. Every nation is. People who feel they must control in order to be secure get neither. Large systems do not allow that. Real control, the kind people like, is self-organized and distributed. Faith in Dharma, The Motherland, is needed.
I have proposed abandoning mechanical, economic, political, and messianic metaphors for our self-awareness as individuals and groups in favor of botanical ones (and here), such as:
- We Americans are a garden of gardens, and we communicate with other nations by taking them also as gardens of gardens, valuable all, different all, but not enemies.
The USA are not an imperialist nation, although an ethno-religious cohort of ours who are atheists — aka Neocons — would like us to be one, with them in charge, of course.
Our geo-strategic position on the face of the planet quite prevents us from being an imperialist nation — our very own imperialist ethno-religious cohort of atheists notwithstanding — as our late positioning in Iraq and Afghanistan attest.
Punitive expeditions are one thing, rightly mounted against someone for crossing our border uninvited and to our detriment. Imperial sway is something else entirely. The USA are entirely ill-positioned and more importantly ill-inclined to put imperial sway into practice.
It is dishonest to infer that Neocons are America. Most of them are Americans, but they are not America. Americans have their problems, related to not yet finding effective ways to send Neocons packing away from powers of government. (They will find ways finally.)
However, that does not mean Americans prefer or support Neocon degeneracies, perversions, immorality, lies, thefts, and cheating. Andrey Raevsky lives in The USA by choice, after all. It’s unseemly to disparage a country who gives one refuge. I am glad Andrei Martyanov does not do that.
For its part, Russia intends to continue upholding depoliticised cooperation, for which there is no alternative. It relies on the central coordinating role of the UN and primacy of the provisions of its Charter, primarily the principles of sovereign equality of states and non-interference in their domestic affairs.
It is important to emphasise in this context that the Russian Federation firmly adheres to its commitments as recorded in its Constitution and international treaties on human rights. It continues being open to all foreigners that are ready for dialogue and mutually beneficial cooperation. The procedures for entry and stay in this country do not entail any checkups as to their loyalty.
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Anita Ekberg
So long as you have a trace of ego in you, you cannot see the Lord clearly. That is the curtain which Saint Tyagaraja prayed to Lord Venkateshwara to remove from his mind. Egoism will be destroyed if you constantly tell yourself, ‘It is He, not I’, ‘He is the force; I am but the instrument’. Keep His Name always on the tongue; contemplate His glory whenever you see or hear anything beautiful or grand; see in everyone the Lord Himself moving in that form. Do not talk evil of others, see only good in them. Welcome every chance to help others, to console others, and to encourage others along the spiritual path. Be humble, do not become proud of your wealth, status, authority, learning or caste. Dedicate all your physical possessions and mental skills and intellectual attainments to the service of the Lord and to the Lord’s manifold manifestations. – Sathya Sai Baba