Who Is Right And Who Is Wrong? — Take Two

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.  Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT Democrats cannot gain power without lying, cheating, and stealing. Republicans cannot maintain power without prosecuting Democrats. Who is right and who is wrong? Democrats make war. Republicans prosecute war. Who is right and…

Piercing Eloquence: Three Brothers Doctrine, Three Eyes

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.  Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT DATELINE: The White House 23 September 2018 Transcript: POTUS Debriefs Nobody Present: POTUS Trump, VPOTUS Pence, CoS Kelly, Ivanka Trump, Nobody POTUS: Thank you for coming, Nobody.  I know the trip is difficult…

Benghazi: The Explanation

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.  Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT Paraphrasing Julius Caesar’s famous announcement, Hillary Clinton infamously declared regarding Muammar Gaddafi, We came, we saw, he died.  She could have declared, We came, we saw, we lied. Early in 2011, and under orders from their…

Artificial Intelligence, National Sovereignty, And War-Fighting Capability

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.  Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT This essay is a spread of observations launched against idolators, those who claim for something status it lacks, who claim ultimacy for something not ultimate, who seek to extract money and prestige from…

Thandava – XV

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.  Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT During the late 1960s and early 1970s, Robert Theobald and his wife Jean Scott in New York, France, and Wickenburg,  Radical Software explorers in New York, Liam O’Gallagher in San Francisco, and I in…

Fixing Syria — Take Four

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.  Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT This is my fourth take on fixing Syria.  The previous three are Fixing Syria — Take One (06 April 2017), Fixing Syria — Take Two (22 October 2017), and Fixing Syria — Take Three (15 February 2018).…

Wealth, Sovereignty, And Strategic Concern

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.  Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT The wealth of a nation is her land (geography), her families (morality) and her constitution (system of law), in that order.  Her land is a nation’s general, latent wealth.  Her families and constitution…

Mr. President: Back The Kurds, Cut Loose The Turks

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.  Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT Mr. President, back the Kurds and cut loose the Turks.  Now!  Time and lives are wasting. You are not in Syria to annihilate ISIL merely, and ISIL is far from annihilated.  You have used the…

Fixing Syria — Take Three

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 This is my third take on fixing Syria.  The previous two are Fixing Syria — Take One (06 April 2017) and Fixing Syria — Take Two (22 October 2017). This time I want…

2018 National Defense Strategy Summary

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 I just read the 2018 National Defense Strategy Summary (unclassified, open source version, of course).  Here are my thoughts thereon: 1- This is the first time I have seen or recall…

Fixing Syria — Take Two

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 An historic opportunity exists in and about Syria for USA to ease her own burden in the Middle East, relax relations with Russia and quieten the Middle East itself. USA has…

The East Is West

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 In a post titled Columbus Day / USA Grand Design For The Middle East, I mentioned that USA has a grand strategic objective but no primary grand strategic interests in the Middle…

USA Strategic Objectives In MENA

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 I have danced, frequently, with the question of USA national strategic interests and USA grand national strategic objective, to include especially on the floor of the dance hall of USA national

Russian History In Russian Foreign Policy

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 There follows an edited colloquy in which an interlocutor and I engaged on the subject of a 2016 article by Sergey Lavrov, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation. The competition…

National Security And National Sovereignty: #5

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 At Rantburg today, a regular contributor and commenter using the handle Besoeker (means visitor in Dutch when spelled Bezoeker) wrote two comments that bear upon USA grand national strategic objectives, to include…

Multi-Religious Nations: The Spirit Of The Age

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 POTUS Trump’s basic campaign concept in re MENA — and to include Israel — is that USA has no strategic interest there, especially now with energy independence cum supremacy, unless someone…