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…

Columbus Day / USA Grand Design For The Middle East

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 enumerated USA strategic objectives in MENA here.  Here I would like to broach a companion subject, one larger yet.  This is the subject of USA Grand Design for the…

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…

Generalship I

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 Transcript of Secretary Mattis’ impromptu remarks to U. S. Soldiers in Jordan, 25 August 2017: Believe me, I know you’re far from home, every one of you; I know you could all…

Freedom In Sovereignty

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 Good and strong words from a plain man whose call sign is not Mad Dog but Chaos.  Yet, the statement is tactical only, not strategic and has not been backed up,…

National Security And National Sovereignty: #4

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 If SecState’s discourse here were an elaborate ruse to keep from talking about what is really happening, especially conceptually, I would say it is brilliant.  I’m sure some of that purpose…

Angelo M. Codevilla: Advice To War Presidents

Chaitanya   Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.  Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT Angelo M. Codevilla is justly esteemed a political philosopher of the first water, of the highest translucence.  I consider him the peer-successor of his countryman (of birth) Niccolò Machiavelli. Political philosophy (statecraft) always has been…

The All American Party Platform I: Draft Announcement

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 Three times I have posted on the subject of USA political parties, each time looking towards a creation or reformation of the same.  Those publications are,…

Anger Abounds And Politicians Obscure Its Target

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 Well, some at least are not obscuring anger’s target, nor its justification.  Politicians are facing the righteous wrath of citizens. Don Surber mentions politicians in the pay of rich Moslems as…

Fixing Syria — Take One

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 The grand strategic objective of everyone in the Middle East, excepting Iranian theocrats, is to prevent Iran ruling from Tehran to Beirut.  With that objective in mind, and others, Gulf Arab governments have subsidized Salafi…

Bloodbath In Europe

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 It is not unusual for seers to mention that Europe is no longer Eu-rope, that it has chosen to be Eu-rabia, but not very eu-ishly.  (eu is a Greek prefix meaning auspicious, beneficial,…

Were I Donald Trump: #1

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 To: US Senior Executive Department Officers — Combatant Commanders, Ambassadors, their immediate subordinates and their associated kinetic, strategic, intelligence, training and logistics supports — in the grades of O-10, O-9 and GS and…

Open Letter For Team Trump : The Deal To Make For Globe-Settling Inter-Nation Relations

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 The deal to make, TrumpTeam, is aligning three sovereign, brother nation states — India, USA, Russia — as the global leadership for inter-nation relations.  Here is the formula, the core reality,…