Equanimity, Not Left Or Right

The old standards remain the standards.Fundamentals have not changed, only incidentals. We go here and there looking for God.Truth is, we are ever only looking right at Him. Scimus autem quoniam diligentibus Deum omnia cooperantur in bonum, iis qui secundum propositum vocati sunt sancti. And we know that to them that love God, all things…

Lawyers

As Is The Feeling,So Is The Result. It occurred to me this morning: lawyers are the corruption in the country, lawyers are the investigators — though likely not cleaners — of the corruption in the country, and lawyers operate the country’s most prominent institutions, including, besides all branches and agencies of government, her armed forces,…

Wealth In Geo-Strategics

As Is The Feeling,So Is The Result. The ability to produce, not properties or money in a bank, is wealth. This is why a poor man can become a rich man. One can make something from nothing, but a something is just nothing. Wealth is the ability to make, not the thing made. Power is…

Being There Is No Reason For Staying There

The One Is Indivisible The Truth Is The Whole There should be a rational grand national strategic objective (RGNSO) justifying the deployment or maintenance of US assets of statecraft (aka US citizens’ persons and wealth) outside US borders.  Those assets are three in number: Diplomacy, Finance, and War-Fighting. Wanting to be somewhere is insufficient reason…

Why We Fight

The One Is Indivisible The Truth Is The Whole We examined facets of this subject two years ago: USA Grand National Strategic Objective — Take Three Wealth, Sovereignty, And Strategic Concern The excision of Qasem Soleimani occasions further examination of this subject, noting now its deep history and implications thereof. Asharite Islam is the background…

The Truth Matters, After All

AUM NAMAH SHIVAYA Upon occasion, in human affairs, it becomes necessary to remind functionaries that they are not proprietors.  This observation has reference to that Euro-American mélange of colossal dummies who self-identify as the foreign policy establishment (FPE) as well as to their tools, practitioners, who call themselves the intelligence community (IC). The foundations are shaking, at last.…

Essentials Against Potentials

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.  Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT US Armed Forces as a whole and as units thereof propound vision statements.  These often contain the phrase anytime, anywhere to indicate intention regarding readiness for operations.  They do not, usually, contain phrases declaring a…

The INDO-PACIFIC Region Is A Land-Based Problem Set

AUM NAMAH SHIVAYA When admirals’ ships are crashing about and generals’ fighting formations are losing wars as well as battles, the premise(s) from which their proceedings proceed are false.  Events such as these indicate the presence of more and deeper irresponsibility than can be adduced from an incidental mishap. In the case of US armed…

Washingtonian Vice Wilsonian Foreign Policy

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.  Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT Today, two experienced and estimable observers, Sundance and Don Surber, have disagreed on the significance of a specific political maneuvering that occurred yesterday in Washington D.C.  The disagreement compels my attention because, although,…

USA SitRep And Prognosis

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.  Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT 1- The Red Army owns most large USA institutions. 2- The American Army owns USA land, families, and Constitution. 3- Land, families, and Constitution are stronger than institutions. 4- The Red Army’s strategic

Freedom And Reactionaries

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.  Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT History moves on.  Socialists are reactionaries. Cortez, Obama, Harris, et al are not keeping up with history.  Like Buckley before them, and his heirs Kristol, Goldberg, Podhoretz, Mirengoff, so-called Libertarians, and the mountebanks…

Five Eyes, Reconfigured

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.  Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT In the movie Patton, George C. Scott, playing General George S. Patton — addresses a gathering of ladies at an English village.  He announces, among other things, that England and The United States…

Forever Wars

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.  Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT VDH on the Syria pullout Rogerjb comments: God, are these Forever Wars in fact going to last forever?  Syria is a country of no significance to American interests.  But neocons are happy to…

US Foreign Policy/Military Establishment Zero

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.  Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT Super Bowl III: Right Click, Open In New Tab The question of national interest, or as I call it, rational USA grand national strategic objective, is treated by several commenters, all implicitly or…

Americans

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.  Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT This speaks for itself: Baruch Pletner: The Hi-Tech Traditionalist: Judge Sullivan Was Right There is something unseemly, obscene, and yes, treasonous in a three-star general, a senior intelligence officer in the US military, engaging…