First step to world peace? Inner peace. Might not be the last step but is a necessary step.
If your internal world is disordered, chaotic, a wreck, guess what your external world looks like? Only if you have inner order can you dare suggest how to construct outer order. By keeping word, thought, and action united, as one, achieving in the outer world what is already imagined in the inner world is much much likelier. This is why liars are ultimately self-destructive and fail.
In other words: you cannot build anything on lies, confusion, ignorance. You need structure and foundation and part of that is your inner world.
Rest in Peace.
Shani Louk, 23-year-old kidnapped from music festival, found dead, Israel says | CNN
War is stupid.
We study war intently to prevent it if possible, to avoid it where necessary and to win it if forced to fight. I am never the first to shoot: I am always the last to shoot in every sense. Violence is regrettable, but at times necessary because murderers such as Putin will not stop unless we force them to stop.
Israel summons Russian ambassador over Moscow's hosting of Hamas officials | The Times of Israel
If your “no limits” “no matter what” partner is a war criminal, and you partner with state sponsors of terrorists maybe, just maybe, pick better partners.
Putin Ally Warns EU Against Seizing Russian Assets for Ukraine’s Reconstruction (voanews.com)
Speaking of picking partners! Xi says China's women must start 'new trend of family' (yahoo.com) China took up a two and then one child policy because of famines. Famines ended, so did the one child policy. Some people want children, others dont. Its your family not mine so do whatever you like.
Xinjiang
Recently, lots of Murricans want to whine and moan about how China is treating Xinjiang, where self declared Jihadi violate Islamic law constantly. Their bombs and knives have claimed more lives than most of you are aware of 。Despite this, Xinjiang currently looks FAR nicer than when the USA was occupying Iraq. It is very likely Iraq still looks far worse than Xinjiang. The people who want to complain about oh-so-terrible China need to take a good hard look at the facts and get some humility. -100,000 dead americans thanks to drugs last year alone (this has been going on for years WTF). Not to mention all that obesity and the result is a declining life expectancy. Would you prefer to see an independent Islamic Republic of Xinjiang, happily gorging on Iranian money and forging C-Notes to sponsor more knife jihad and a nuclear program to boot? Omg China is taking poor people, housing them, teaching them Chinese, and giving them job training so they dont blow shit up. So evil!
One could argue that the USA ruining Iraq is not comparable to Xinjiang since one is domestic governance, the other is war. China could not project power as the USA did. Those are fair angles to take. But what makes Washington think it could govern Xinjiang better than China does? 20 years of failed remote indirect governance by Washington around the Islamic world mean it is remarkably unlikely that Washington could govern Xinjiang better than Beijing.
Greedy people probably suck at cooperation. But alliance coordination is all about cooperation. You need to figure out who your real enemies are, then you can try to win friends and influence peoples. It might also be useful to have a realistic assessment of your own cababilities. “Know yourself.”
You may wonder why I have not written about Ukraine recently: “When your enemy is making a mistake, do nothing to interrupt him.” Napoleon Bonaparte.
Word of the Day: criminel de guerre, criminal de guerra, Kriegsverbrecher, sõjakurjategija, воєнний злочинець, военный преступник
The following guy get most all of it right and is always going in the right direction. Idk why he is not famous, he often has insights and picks up details that others ignore. All I can say is he is more focussed on getting it right than on monetization. Go figure…
Anyway, watch the following video please. For your own good.
“a trained army of monkeys”
the above well meaning fools have no idea how an actual mafia rolls except for maybe Kotkin. Maybe. Kotkin, unlike his colocutors, is 90% correct.
The point isnt that you must take a great vow to grow. The point is: a lot of people are helping you to grow.
阿努比斯带我去往新生再次闪烁的星光
Liberalism and its Discontents
I should probably point out - I am not a liberal. It would be much easier to lie, or keep silent, and pretend to be yet another fucking liberal. I am not a liberal. People need authority to live well, otherwise they turn into fat drug addicted alcoholics committing various crimes along the way all to their own detriment and everyone else’s too.
China’s Mismanaged Economy at a Critical Crossroad | Hoover Institution - YouTube
Of course, the Chinese people are going to turn into lazy stupid unambitious contrary to over 5000 years of history. In other words this is an example of the kind of wishful thinking and happy talk which will empower China to obtain policy results from D.C. that are mutually beneficial or even unilaterally beneficial to China. Keep underestimating your counterpart, I cannot wait to watch you unroll that global war on Chinese industry, it should go about as well as your most recent global war on something something.
Someone I like very much once said something like: “we cannot make progress unless we admit our mistakes.”
My predictions tend to come true. This one is 还没实现的
basically it looks like China is offering to cooperate on the Mid-East for U.S. cooperation on Taiwan.
Prediction: the USA will support and encourage cross-straits trade and cultural exchanges, tourism etc. However, the Taiwan Relations Act legally binds the USA to defend Taiwan, and it will. These may be presented as confidence building measures.
Possibilities: Security cooperation in mutually desired areas such as non-state actor threats is possible despite the prudent necessity of mutual deterrence.
This is the course of action I counsel.
The following fella is wrong,
but, unlike most of my fellow thugs, and all my enemies, the ways he is wrong are really fucking interesting!
Learn Chinese.
For example "Who are our enemies? Who are our friends?” Mao Zedong 谁是我们的敌人?谁是我们的朋友?
毛泽东《中国社会各阶级的分析》的面世--党史频道-人民网 (people.com.cn)
佛典故事01。佛說阿彌陀經。全長版 - YouTube
Why China is the Biggest Geopolitical Winner of the Israel-Gaza War - YouTube
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