Rome Did Not Fall, She Molted

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.  Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT It is generally accepted, I think, that Rome fell because she became internally weak so that outsiders could overwhelm her.  I’ve never been satisfied with that construction.  It lacks sympathy for facts and…

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…

COCOMs, Independent Nations Treaty Organization, And A Grand Council Of Independent Nations

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.  Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT This post will explore structural renovation of US combatant commands, treaty organizations generally, and the so-called United Nations. The exercise proceeds from the observation that freedom of communication by sea or ocean presses…

Bracketing

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000   RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.  Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT I suggest the concept of bracketing trouble-makers/hegemons (China, Iran, NORK, Salafis) with the geo-strategic weight of fresh arrays of significant allies.  The allies are those under threat who can be made to…

Thandava – XXII

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000   RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.  Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klP5dwGh88U Selwyn Duke: Killing Nationalism: Merkel Says Nations Should Give Up Sovereignty VDH: Our Exhausted American Mediocracy The 2016 election and refutation of the ruling class did not signal that those without such…

Thandava – XXI

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.  Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT Democrats: A plague on the nation Leading Catholic Jesuit magazine retracts endorsement of Judge Kavanaugh The Indestructible Lie: WaPo Congressional Reporter Blames Right-Wing Mobs For Inspiring Gabby Giffords Shooting Inside The Deluded & Desperate…

Thandava – XX

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.  Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT Academic Activists Send a Published Paper Down the Memory Hole Accelerating Multi-Domain Operations: evolution of an idea VDH: Are We on the Verge of Civil War? PROFILE: Facts about the leader of the Muslim…

Thandava – XIX

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.  Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT I find that where theologians tend to be refined but not clever, attorney’s tend to be clever but not refined.  Perhaps somewhere in there there is room for alliance, as in days of…

Strategics First, Then Tactics

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.  Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT USA General and Flag Officers engage in dereliction of duty, again. They treat strategic problems as tactical problems in order to avoid responsibility commensurate with their rank and mission. Avoiding responsibility for strategic…

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…

Eyes West

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.  Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT … that energy extraction strategy alone would have put Papadopoulos in opposition to the interests of Obama, Clinton, Turkey, Qatar and ultimately Iran and Russia. Clinton/Obama/Alexander Downer all were involved in the rival…

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…

Radical

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.  Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT These actions and statements demonstrate that she’s too radical to remain as EEOC commissioner. A linguistic quibble which is no doubt hopelessly ineffective yet merits repetition: radical means rooted, as in, rooted in…

Children Can Read The Bible To Learn English

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.  Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14dwegqniNg Children used to read the Bible, often in KJV but other translations as well, to learn English.  This served multiple purposes, as one can imagine, all salutary.  Most importantly to my mind,…