It's Not About Territory
It's About Physical Annihilation Of The Enemy
What comes next is a popular movement demanding an end to this sadistic and useless conflict, the legacy of a Nazi strategy adopted by the US and relentlessly pursued for eighty years.
It is time Operation Barbarossa is put to an end.
Life throws up engineering problems, not catastrophes. How something looks is all in one’s approach to it, in one’s general and default frame of reference. Likewise, in this world there is no security, only opportunity.
Duty is God. Work is Worship.
In conformity with requirements of their profession, lawyers automatically ask of any situation, Cui Bono?. A person asks that questions when their parameters of vision are harm and benefit. Either Or. Dualism par excellence.
Life, however, produces situations -- and people do things -- in which no benefit can be seen accruing to anyone. Call it craziness if you wish, it is a perpetual fact of life no amount of nudging humanism, which is hopium on the obverse and sadism on the reverse, can change or remediate. Statecraft done properly is continuous coping with exactly such situations.
For this reason, statesmen keep lawyers far from their deliberations, or, they appreciate lawyerly parameters of vision for what they offer and then move on to engineering what those parameters do not offer, namely, mutual benefit, indivisible security, and prompt expulsion of craziness from main street and the halls of business, education, and government.
People who get things done and are hiring look for people who can get things done for them. This means engineers, soldiers, and theologians, who are in essence the same professionals.
Don't send your kids to college or law school. Send them to a normal engineering school. Get them doing very serious math very early in their childhood and continuing even more seriously through their teens. This, among other things, will inoculate them against storms of ideology coming their way as their circle of associations expands.
God’s answer to Job resounds through the ages: What do you know?! The universe results from a big explosion. The universe results from the design plans of an intelligent being. The universe is a random event making innumerable random events. The universe has a teleology which can and must be managed by human agency. Human agency is all that matters for the universe. The universe and its species of creatures result entirely from evolution. All are guesses. All are wrong.
The universe results from something entirely and forever outside human ken. No science can understand it. No theology can describe it. No religion can get near it. Effort expended in those directions can produce proximately useful results, but nothing definitive can come of them.
Did a man discover the origin of the universe, he would not live past 26 days thereafter and would not talk about what he had discovered. "I shall be whatever I shall be." God tells Moses, as later He tells Job. Never try to understand God. You’ll only make a fool of yourself and have to kneel finally in eager contrition, as did Moses and Job. If you harmed any of your fellow creatures meanwhile — any — and feel not the sting of remorse, woe betide.
Even today, large-scale multi-national military operations are prone to failure or at least immense cost unless one person has supreme command, is backed without demurrer by their political authority, and enjoys loyal subordinate multi-nation commanders executing their responsibilities for the good of the campaign rather than on behalf of their country’s special — loudest, richest, most petulantly corrupt — interests.
Brits are irredeemably prone to favor themselves in any situation, and not their pleasant temperate self, their sententious colonialist one. Committees — coalitions — most likely will not fight wars expeditiously, to the earliest possible decision incurring the least possible cost to all concerned.
What gnaws the guts of this one today — 404 Ukraine — is the indescribable inhumanity of taking, even urging, destruction of a people, even if they are bad people overall, as nothing of concern or even worth mentioning. I cannot fathom thinking that way. Taking people as mere consumables. New York and London, Brussels and the Washington can and do take people that way, including each other. It’s beyond demonic even.
FWIW, I think the Nova Kakhovka dam blow was, in part, to give temporary front and flank protection to reduced Ukie force in Kherson while units from there are pulled from that line and put in at South Donetsk to follow up the US-UK fantasy offensive there south to Melitopol and Mariupol. The butcher’s bill in personnel and equipment already is like nothing a sane commander could tolerate. US-UK GOs, ADMs, and O6s directing this fantasy offensive deserve expulsion from the profession of arms and prosecution for genocide, and that’s before they, their bosses, and US-UK financial speculators, along with their political-bureaucratic cover, face The Almighty to answer in concert for humanly incomprehensible inhumanity harming all and sundry.
Soviet Russia did not destroy the Nazi Wehrmacht just to have a less physically able but equally odious US-UK proxy force run the same damnable flag up the same evil flagpole some eighty years later in a region of Russia.
And for the same damnable reason: land snatch, namely, of Russia.
There is a third world. The world of detachment.
Law is useful, as far as it goes. Law's purview, however, is benefit and harm. Beyond that -- a huge beyond -- law cannot go. People do things, such as revenge, which benefit no one and harm everyone. Benefit-harm, cost-benefit analyses have no application there.
Of such matters, transcending capacities of law, do statesmen treat. Lawyers and law are of proximate use there. Detachment and mutual benefit are the ways of reality as well as the substance of statecraft.
A real government — Congress, Executive, Judiciary, and their bureaucrats — would throw finance, currency, and real estate speculators — lovers of unsound banking practices — into irons on their way to somewhere remote, such as Saint Helena.
Instead, Congress et al. extort protection money from speculators, leave them to their devices, shield them from scrutiny, and send state assets — diplomacy, currency/taxation, war-fighting — to smooth their paths to ownership of rentier capital everywhere on Earth, the Moon, Mars, and beyond.
Who are these people who consider it unobjectionable — just business — to incite a weaker country against a stronger in order to ream out the former’s population and livability, making their lands available for cheap purchase by speculators — or outright seizure — and the remnant peoples themselves mere consumables?
. . . and into the bargain, they hope, introduce the stronger country to chaos so she and her resources, too, can be purchased cheaply — or seized — her peoples humiliated beyond possibility and probability of recovering self-confidence?
Who does these things? Lawyers have no capable answer for it. Theologians have no satisfactory answer for it. Only Soldiers have the capable and satisfactory answer to such people. RAMANAM
