Wouldn't these precepts be ideal mission-statements for all states' foreign affairs agencies?
First: No people on earth can be held, as a people, to be an enemy, for all humanity shares the common hunger for peace and fellowship and justice.
Second: No nation's security and well-being can be lastingly achieved in isolation but only in effective cooperation with fellow nations.
Third: Any nation's right to a form of government and an economic system of its own choosing is inalienable.
Fourth: Any nation's attempt to dictate to other nations their form of government is indefensible.
And fifth: A nation's hope of lasting peace cannot be firmly based upon any race in armaments but rather upon just relations and honest understanding with all other nations.
Yet each of these are violated over and over, even though the above words are 73 years old. They are from President Eisenhower's Address: " The Chance for Peace" delivered before the American Society of Newspaper Editors, April 16, 1953. This address was given just after Josef Stalin's death, so while being careful to not trod on his own precepts, the address does contain a measure of Russophobia, since that doctrine is so baked-in to American life and policy.
Instead of bringing in an era of Peace following WW-II, the Eisenhower administration was gradually sidelined in the development of the deep state. Having a "deep state" is not an adjunct to democracy, but a necessity, to have a portion of the state which can impose absolute power instead of a "democratic" approach, which amounts to "designing a horse by committee."
Along with development of the deep state (see Dulles brothers) was the entity which Eisenhower warned against in his Farewell Address, January 17, 1961. (selected sections):
This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. The total influence-economic, political, even spiritual-is felt in every city, every state house, every office of the Federal government. We recognize the imperative need for this development. Yet we must not fail to comprehend its grave implications. Our toil, resources and livelihood are all involved; so is the very structure of our society.
In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.
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The prospect of domination of the nation's scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present and is gravely to be regarded.
Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite.
It is the task of statesmanship to mold, to balance, and to integrate these and other forces, new and old, within the principles of our democratic system-ever aiming toward the supreme goals of our free society.
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Another factor in maintaining balance involves the element of time. As we peer into society's future, we – you and I, and our government – must avoid the impulse to live only for today, plundering, for our own ease and convenience, the precious resources of tomorrow. We cannot mortgage the material assets of our grandchildren without risking the loss also of their political and spiritual heritage. We want democracy to survive for all generations to come, not to become the insolvent phantom of tomorrow.
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Down the long lane of the history yet to be written America knows that this world of ours, ever growing smaller, must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.
Such a confederation must be one of equals. The weakest must come to the conference table with the same confidence as do we, protected as we are by our moral, economic, and military strength. That table, though scarred by many past frustrations, cannot be abandoned for the certain agony of the battlefield.
Disarmament, with mutual honor and confidence, is a continuing imperative. Together we must learn how to compose difference, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose. Because this need is so sharp and apparent I confess that I lay down my official responsibilities in this field with a definite sense of disappointment. As one who has witnessed the horror and the lingering sadness of war-as one who knows that another war could utterly destroy this civilization which has been so slowly and painfully built over thousands of years – I wish I could say tonight that a lasting peace is in sight.
You may take a weeping break here.
March 11 on Nima's Dialogue Works program, he had an interview with Prof. Jiang Xueqin: The Shocking Theory Behind the Iran Conflict. First of all, Nima has been warned by Pepe Escobar to stop calling this a "conflict" - it is an illegal war of aggression. In the block-quote below, I have some paraphrasing and condensation of some main points.
We assume nation-states are the main organizing units of the world. And that these leaders actually matter.
America is in the war to lose, not to win. Other parties are in control behind the curtain. The purpose is ongoing war, to feed the MIC as well as drain the wealth of USA then collapse it because of the massive debt, and the people, if they can manage to live, will scrape by in abject poverty so will be easier to control.
And more wars are desired to wind down the global population, to make it easier to manage, and to destroy the world economy. That was according to Julian Assange.
Prof. Jiang claims that U.S. will send in ground forces, Iran will be shattered, U.S. will be out of the Middle East, and Greater "israel" appears. He claims the three world powers will be a united Germany + Russia, facing Japan and "israel," with [stinking] "israel" as the global Empire (replacing America), which controls a massive number of immigrants, with implanted chips and on drugs, supervised by Palantir. And America is left to control the western hemisphere. A war of south-east Asia will be fought between Japan, S. Korea, N. Korea and Vietnam.
America is not a democracy, the mid-terms (if they have them) don't matter, the parasite still feeds on this host and forever-wars go on. They want you to focus on the wars and not see what's behind the curtain making the real decisions. At this point Prof. Jiang recalls the Allegory of the Cave, by Plato. A painting of this cave is below. Three prisoners are chained down since birth so they can only see the cave wall. Behind them is a short wall, behind which people walk holding up shapes which cast shadows on the wall that the prisoners see, illuminated by a fire behind them. From Philosphyser.com: "In the Allegory of the Cave, Plato distinguishes between people who mistake sensory knowledge for the truth and people who really do see the truth." Prof. Jiang is saying that all we are seeing is shadows, not the real events that change the world. None of the events you see in his world are what really matters – what matters is our understanding of the world. It doesn't matter who wins between U.S. and Iran – what matters is if "israel" becomes an Empire or not. What matters is our understanding, our desire and courage to seek the truth, no matter how painful it is.
Image Credit: https://www.philosophyzer.com/the-allegory-of-the-cave-by-plato-summary-and-meaning/
There are a lot of issues with Prof. Jiang's ideas. He can't understand how a nation of 9 million ("israel") can control the U.S. Duh, it's called Kompromat. The Epstein-style Kompromat which, by the way, is not restricted to some local sadistic pedophiles, this type of Kompromat is standard operating procedure for virtually every nation's intelligence service. In this instance, the Kompromat was embarked on at perhaps the largest scale ever, to establish absolute control over the ENTIRE business, government and military establishment. So now, it was not just Epstein's use of this Kompromat to extort millions from his victims, it was the coming "israel" Empire building its control over nations and, on top of that, the little men behind the curtain increasing their power of control over the entire world through the manipulation of debt finance.
Prof. Jiang's thought of German-Russian cooperation is a possibility, since Germany is the driving economic engine of Europe, and they might be able to cleanse Europe of their Russophobia in the name of peace, and disable the pathetic EU Commission and parliament, removing Ursula Wonderland and Kajah Callous.
He seems to give no thought to the rising power of China, and somehow sees Japan as a great power again, meanwhile their economy is in deep trouble. And all "great powers" depend on reliable energy supplies.
He is correct in noting that we need to find out who is behind the curtain, that is what is real, those little men behind the curtain control the world, or at least the part they've captured. That is where Iran fits in, and perhaps Russia as well, and perhaps China, although they are starting to be corrupted by debt financing.
That is why this Ramadan War is also a spiritual war. Not "spiritual" as in one religion against another, but rather regarding the integrity of the human soul, and whether humans survive AI, rogue Empires and the surveillance state. So far, Iran remains a bastion of basic humanity as they have an individual, separate and unique civilization, not (yet) corrupted by the little men behind the curtain. If Iran could be defeated, humanity loses its last hope of survival.
Prof. Jiang is saying that those little men behind the curtain want forever wars to fund the arms industries, reduce the population levels and suck the wealth out of the (formerly?) rich nations. This is inequality on steroids, sweeping any remaining wealth to those top few. And unless you would like living under the tank tracks of an "israel" Empire, you need to do everything possible to eliminate that settler colony from the face of the Earth. You know what Gaza looks like, and they're doing the same to Lebanon. They just sweep human life out of their way, without a care. Like what I said in the previous post, you are on the side of the Gaza-world, or on the side of the "israel"-world.
Is this "israel" Empire only a possibility of the future? No, it is here now, as one after another country is captured. That settler colony is trying to capture the entire Middle East by force and genocide. It has already captured Europe and the UK. It has already (for years now) captured USA and Canada. It has captured Australia. All these vassal states conform their internal regulations to tamp down any criticism of "israel." Two days before the beginning of this Ramadan War, India's PM Modi made a state visit to see his new boss in "israel," on February 26. Apparently, Modi is throwing BRICS under the bus. Then the day Modi returned home, Canada's PM Carney showed up for a state visit from February 27 to March 2nd, tying Canada and India together in bilateral agreements, including supplying India with billions in uranium! Might "israel" call upon the nuclear state of India to help take out the missile storage areas in eastern Iran - it's not a long missile trajectory. Canada is on the wrong side of history yet again.
And a bit of the curtain has been pulled back – Epstein was also chummy with the Rothschilds, and probably passed on his vast reservoir of Kompromat to them. They are a big part of who's behind the curtain. That name is an old spelling meaning "Red Shield" (Roth-schilds) which is their emblem.
How is "The Art of the Deal" working out now for the Pedo-President? I hope he is having deep regrets for backing up the zionist settler-colony in this absolutely unnecessary war. But there definitely IS AN OFF-RAMP – tRump smartens up, leaves Iran alone, pays reparations, and turns his ire against the zionist settler colony, doing a REGIME CHANGE there, removing THEIR nuclear weapons and nuclear weapons capability, limiting their armed forces numbers and forcing them to stay within their borders or get bombed again. Don't hold your breath.
Humanity now stands at the precipice, or at least a fork in the road. In either case, such as taking the wrong road or stepping off the cliff, there is no return. If we keep allowing the development of the "israel" Empire and control by the little men behind the curtain, there is no future, it is closed, humanity goes into permanent bondage and control. This theme shows up again in today's post by Ismaele at GeoPolitiQ – here's two paragraphs:
The Spodocene – an era of structural saturation and normalisation of ruin – marks the historical limit of directionality. In this context, the instance of leadership can no longer promise progress or plan for an open future. Its function shifts towards the administration of deterioration: normalising ruin, fragmenting responsibilities and lowering collective expectations.
This administration of deterioration is not a deviation from the system, but the specific way in which it manages to prolong its existence beyond its structural limits. It does not lead towards a horizon: it manages the habitability of a degraded present.
Today's music selection: Jonathan Scott: A. Vivaldi, "Summer" from The Four Seasons, Op.8 (arr.: J. Scott), at The III International Vahagn Stamboltsyan Organ Festival, Komitas Chamber Music Hall, Yerevan, Armenia, 2025. Johnathan is arguably the world's best organist. Note the amazing pedal-work, and he isn't watching his feet. This is a "tracker" organ, so pressing the keys takes some effort because of all the mechanical linkage to operate the air valves.
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