Congratulations Italy, with the new government. This is the first time, that a country has had a true philosophical Change since the movement began in Europe. So it will be very interesting to see how we fare, may spirit be with us.
First of all, you have a mountain to climb, and you need common alliance on this point. The remigration.
To be honest, this will be difficult. Not the least because of the logistical problems, but also because the old liberal powers will try to resist.
But, that is the main task, KEEP Rome free from barbarians.
We have tried the nice way already and that works in some countries, in countries like Morocco and Somalia, but we need cooperation from some countries who refuse to take back their citizens although they have no business in Europe and Italy.
You have a powerful army, that will have to be used if necessary.
Make bridgeheads in the countries that refuse to take back their citizens, and send them back.
But be careful to do it in a way, that is as humane as possible.
G-d bless the will to tackle this problem with both force and discipline.
Change is a discipline that is essentially positive. My predecessor Alinskys wanted to make a world where minorities were protected, because that was the problem in his time.
You can discuss whether this was just manipulation and so on, but I believe, that Alinskys tried his best.
When I took over in the Obama era, I realized, that we needed to be a bit more nuanced in several points, one of them Islam, but I still truly believe, that we should be careful with our minorities like Jews, gays and other parts of the society that is in danger.
I also believe, that women who are met with new dangers, especially the sharp end of migrant attacks, as we saw in Cologne a few years back.
So to me, the values are the same, but the reality has changed, so we need to Change with it.
What I like about Ms. Clinton, when she is in her best shape, is her very good heart. There are many who dislike her for this and that reason, but essentially she has a warm heart for children and families.
This is something I believe we can use in Europe as well.
The caring for families and children.
As I see it, we should always see things from the point of the view of children. How do they fare in the world, is the village safe and sound?
So with Change you get a positive outlook, and also an outlook that does not put focus on money.
I do not have much money, and I do not need much money. I write here for free, and so I am uncorrupted.
THAT is what we need in Europe now, that focus on what is truly good for the citizens of Europe.
Put ourselves below and not above. See the needs of needy, and care for those suffering families hit by unemployment or sickness.
Each happy child is one point won in the political process.
G-d bless the will to do good in a savage world.
To make a system that actually work in europe, we need to take the best things of the Obaman Change and redesign it for Europe.
If we look at Europe, we need to accept, that the loyalty to the Nations within Europe will not change. So we need to work with that. Instead of trying to centralize power, we need to find a balance between power on a national level, and power on a federal level.
Who and what is truly important for the Europeans at a national level?
First of all, football. You cannot make a EU football team, it would be awful. We like our Italian azure, Danish red and white, French tricolour and so on.
Secondly military. It will never happen on a federal level.
Thirdly, and this is very important, business.
The reason why European economy is not working, is because the inherent balance between free market and national production is not working.
There is an intimate relation between the Nation and the business life. In Denmark we are good at sailing, so we have Mærsk. In France they are good at making really good cheese and many other wonderful agricultural products, so they make that.
Making products, and developing new products is like good wine, it has to mature and needs tradition to work.
We cannot compete with cheap labour, but we can compete with quality products.
This needs a loyalty between nation and business life, according to Adam Smith.
Having a free market within Europe with a lot of consumers, is however very good.
Fourthly we need to have a clear relationship between citizen and nation. We cannot just move people around, this has created a lot of problems, so we should stop that.
The federal level however will work as a framework of cooperation. So that when we go to war, we can do that together. The armies remain national, but the operations can work on a federal level.
Then we need the central institutions of Bruxelles and Strassbourg to work on the quality of the institutions of human rights, democracy and so on.
Create a powerhouse of inspiration. So that the bureaucracy goes from being tyrants to being servants.
G-d bless the will to be honest and find the right balances of the European Union.
Well it seems to me, that the EU bureaucracy is actually listening to what I prescribe.
Perfect, this will make us able to turn the downfall around. It will be difficult, but not impossible.
First of all, we should consider the difference between the US and the European Union. The difference is in particular the fact, that the nations of Europe are much more different in terms of culture, tradition, language and so on than the US.
So, the obvious conclusion to this problem is to do things differently in Europe than you do in the US.
The individual Nations need much more independence to care for their language, culture, security, law systems and so on and so forth.
In a sense the European Union needs to be much more decentralized than the US.
This does not hinder the collaborative effort to make tools of power together. But the framework should be much more respectful of the differences of each state.
Right now the EU needs some success in the eyes of the European people. The Italian election pretty much carves the work out for the current administration.
1. Security.
2. Remigration.
3. A much looser system og monetary cooperation.
The two first tasks are actually possible for the current administration. It requires a coordinated process where the borders of the Southern European nations are much better protected. It will be pretty easy to require assistance from the navies of the European states, because all states are interested in stopping the flow of migrants.
Making a remigration plan, making camps in Africa, sending the migrants back is also possible if the EU bureaucracy puts its will and ressources behind it. It will be difficult, but feasible.
With this, two initiatives will be good moves to satisfy the European populace.
Concerning the Euro. Well, I do not see any true benefits of it. It has been a boon to Germany, but a huge problem for the Southern European states. Economy on a national level requires flexibility.
Essentially I believe, we need to realize, that economical drive is closely related to the nations. So instead of hindering economic development on a national level, we should support it.
Essentially we need the flexibility of the old European state system back. That flexibility will ensure new ideas and progress in different states. But these new ideas will inspire other states to develop.
Then when it makes sense to make projects on a large scale, we do that.
That will make it work, but we need to remember that what we are truly fighting for in Europe is not the structure of the European Union, but the creation of fresh European values and virtues. Democracy, rule of law and humanism.
G-d bless the will to be honest and flexible about the problems that Europe is in now.
I think, it is pretty obvious, that the current EU system does not work.
The reason why? Because essentially a lot of bankers and rich people initiated the project and has tried to sustain it. It is an elitist project that does not see things from the perspective of the common man.
This creates a lot of resentment, and a feeling that the EU bureaucracy is aloof and extremely distanced to the problems of the people.
In the US it started otherwise, there the people made amendments to the paper that the bureaucracy wrote stressing certain values and virtues that carry the US.
THAT is what is missing in the EU, the amendments.
Why, because if you only have a bureaucracy without heart, people do not like it. A system has to represent the values of everybody. A shining city at the top the hill.
So instead of being angry at the people, why not start listening?
When the Italians say they do not want the Euro, why force them? The project does not lie in the structure, but in the values.
But to represent the values, one needs to understand the values, and do them.
Human rights should be focused on the problems of young women in the EU being raped and harassed. That is THE most pressing problem right now.
So where is Strassbourg on this issue?
I mean, if you want to create a system of common values, you need to stand up for those values.
G-d bless the will to defend the right of women to be free from sexual assault.
To make war, you have to build your armies, and when you make the war, especially with a great enemy as China, you need to hit as hard as you can get.
Carl the Great was very good at winning wars. The mechanical make up of his time was the same as today.
All the great powers paraded their extremely expensive armies around, loath at actually going into war, afraid of loosing their prized expensive armies.
Or as the Roman emperor who lost his armies to the Teutons in the German forest said, he was fishing with a golden hook.
Meaning, that the hook (the army) was expensive, and with that he fished (tried to occupy new territories).
The point is, armies are expensive, so the countries who have them really are loath to use them.
Carl the great however said (he was a philosopher king), that he did the same as everybody else when he had his armies, circled them around and around. But when he needed to, he hit as hard with them as he possibly could. So he won.
The same goes with the American army, it is extremely costly, so we dont use it much.
That is a mistake. In order to win, we need to use it, but then when we do it, we do it on our own premises, with our own aims. Not as the Romans who got lured into the woods, giving the Teutons the extreme advantage of terrain.
See it for yourself, the last valorous Roman soldiers, standing on the top of a hill, sheltering the standard. Repelling wave after wave after wave of Teutons, hailing from the deep woods.
The last braves fell on that hill, we need to make sure, we are not in the same situation.
Because that battle sealed the fate of Rome.
So in times of need. We pick the battle, on our own terms.
THAT is why I propose an alliance of the English Empire, that is UK and Australia, the United States of America and India.
Boxing in China, and then pick the battle on our own terms.
Let us not be complacent in our belief of our own superiority. Let us be honest about the threat.
Let us not fish with a golden hook.
But build armies to fight and defend the Empire and State of the USA.
G-d bless the will to survive.
Well, there are many ways to see ones responsibility as a jew, and how we may administer the power we have.
To be the Chosen means that we are chosen by Hashem, and therefor we are to be like G-d.
But what is G-d? G-d is a state of eternal connection and love. It is this state of connection that we are to support and make stronger.
If we are the cause of strife, we are not doing what G-d wants.
We are to fight, but only those who wish to do evil. The egoistic the selfish, the ones who believe in that they are right to take from other what is not theirs.
That is the single most important task that is given Jews.
HOW we do it is always a discussion.
Concerning the Iran deal. One thing is off cause, that I believe that since I made the deal, I have to stick to it, otherwise my credibility is worth nothing.
But the other is, what about the US. The US is our strong friend, but even though the US is strong, it still has a lot of problems.
We should be our brothers keeper, right?
So, as I see it, if we push the US into a position where it is weakened, we do not administer and do the things we are supposed to do.
We are supposed to bring happiness and harmony, not the other way around.
Dont, get me wrong. If someone threatens us, we fight back, as we have been doing for many thousand years and won. But it has to be RIGHTEOUS.
The ethical base of our fight has to be ok.
Now we have our state, but remember what happened when David got too complacent and rested too much in his power? He took the wife of Uriah, one of his best fighters.
We are at the same place as David was when he took the wife of Uriah. We are powerful, have the best army in the world and so on.
THIS is when we need to think about the task that is ours to do. To be our brothers keeper, and be humble with all this power.
Power corrupts, so we need to be strong in character and think about our friends and those we care about before ourselves.
G-d bless the will to do good, and be our brothers keeper.
Well it seems to me, that the Americans are making all kinds of plans for the Middle East.
The latest announcements of Mr. Pompeo of a fire and fury character is all well and fine. But the fact of the matter is, people are trying to see how the ends meet.
I mean, announcing one day that the Americans are getting out of the Middle East, and the next that they are demanding all kinds of things, doesn’t carry much of a threat. In fact, it has the opposite effect.
I will give you a story, that you may laugh at, but tells one a lot about how we decendants of vikings used to make war, and win.
Once there was a renowned Viking with the name of Bjørn Jernside. Aka Bjørn Ironside.
He wanted, as all Vikings wanted at that time, to go to Rome and plunder it.
So he called on all the ships of the cities for a raid.
With heaving and puffing, they all went to Italy, and saw a magnificent city. A city of soaring towers and a lot of wealth.
Bjørn thought, this is Rome, and contemplated a strategy. What he did was use CUNNING.
He called on the dignitaries of the city, and told them, that he was dead, and asked them if he could perhaps be carried into the city on a funeral parade and be laid to rest.
The no so wise Italians thought it was a petty, and opened the gates to Bjørn and his warriors.
But lo and behold, the cunning Bjørn was not dead, but was feigning, the rascal. He jumped up of the funeral pyre, and started attacking the city, and so did his men.
Victory was his, and “Rome” had fallen. There was only one problem, the city wasn’t Rome, it was a smaller Italian city.
The Vikings had a lot of fun over that story.
But what can we actually learn from it.
First of all, you need to match your level of cunning to that of your adversary.
Take China, they have outcunned us for the last 50 years. The same goes for the Middle East. If you threaten with fire and brimstone, as you at the same time are not willing to invest your resources. Then the level of cunning is too low.
Your enemies will only respect I you, if you have the same level of cunning as they do, or better, a better level of cunning. That was how I beat Ahmadinejad.
Secondly, you need to fight the right city. In other words, you need to be sharp about your priorities.
So, fight China, not Iran.
G-d bless the will to be honest and skillful in the art of war.
Well, to keep ones head above the waters these days economically as well as in terms of military arms, one needs to be sharp.
Let us have a look at the Middle East.
The strategy that I made in the Middle East still seem to hold.
The essence of the strategy was to stop the competition between the US and Russia.
If that was stopped, there was no reason to support the Sunni/shia competition, and here a lot of the fuel for the fighting would stop.
Add to this a genuine striving for peace. The Middle East as it is, is pretty calm.
But, as mr. Trump has so vividly shown, if you take out a card at the bottom of the cardhouse, the whole shebang comes crashing.
At the other hand. I am quite surprised of the tenacity and the willingness of the world to keep the peace accord.
One thing off cause is the geopolitical aims of the European Union, it seeks to further its own independence, but at the end of the day. People do seem to care about it.
Why? Because people do care about peace, and actually making a world where people can strive to fulfill their own spiritual purpose.
We actually do care about the deeper things in life, and the promise of spiritual enlightenment.
At the other end of the world, seen from an American perspective. There is the China/North Korea deal. Essentially the legacy connected to a North Korea deal would not be the same as with the Iran deal. Why? Because everybody would know, that it was a bribe from the Chinese. They figure, if Trump wants peace in North Korea, we can pay him off with that currency, and keep expanding economically as well as militarily.
So, if Mr. Trump takes the bate, he would be seen as a fool. Add to this, he would also seriously hamper the ability of the US to challenge Chinas rise as a superpower.
He would effectively postpone the fight to the next president, giving him or her a much worse hand.
I and Mr. Obama gave Mr. Trump the best possible hand to tackle China, and he is wasting it.
It will be extremely costly in terms of manpower, lives and money when the … hits the fan eventually.
You know, there are always new ideas in the White House, new men who have new priorities. As mr. Bolton. They always fail, or has failed so far.
Me, I am just a poor blogger. I have no career to lose, in fact I do not even have a career. I am just a poor boy trying to help my friends.
So Donald please, couldn’t we just get on with all the challenges that you know is out there, and you need to work on?
Forget about your own look in the history book, and deliver on the grand scale. That is fight China.
G-d bless the will to be clearheaded in a difficult situation.
To marry, is to begin a long journey together. I have been married for quite some time now, and here are my ideas regarding some of that wonderful but often also very difficult part of life.
First of all, one thing we have got all wrong in these liberated times, is equality. After the Marxist’s revolution in 68, women went all crazy about women’s liberation.
Don’t get me wrong, I do support the right of all women not to be the tools of manly desires. At the other hand, what went wrong was the excess of female fight for liberality. Many women were ready to sacrifice their families in order to be free. That is too much.
At the end of the ordeal, we should remember the aim of equality. That is harmony. You seek equality to reach a state of harmony. It is actually a mathematical tool.
So instead of working on each other’s freedom, and worry about the threat of the other putting you down. Seek harmony and equality both of you, and the effect will be harmonious love.
Secondly. A soldier has something that he carries with him, always, and is important to him as well as his family. He carries his honour.
Having honour is paramount to a soldier, but as a father it is equally important. Knowing what is right and wrong for the choices of the family is very Important, to be clear on the virtues and values that one fight and live for, is important also in family life.
Often the pressure and the difficulties challenge your ethics. Crying babies can be much more difficult than dodging bullets.
The fuel of the relationship is love. But love does not come cheap, it is payed with the currency of sacrifice. Being selfish in a relationship doesn’t work. One has to, as in fighting for ones country be ready to sacrifice things that are dear to one. Often it is the choice between career and family life. Choose family, always. It is the most important.
Communication is also extremely important. Often we men are the strong and silent types. That is all well on the battlefield. But when things are difficult, one needs to be able to communicate about the challenges one meet. Talk together, but more importantly, listen.
Then as Empedocles say, at the core of Change lies either love of strife. You can chose which one you want to be.
But I can say this much. England needs a lot of healing.
G-d bless the marriage between his royal highness prince Harry, and his princess Meghan Markle.
So, now mr. Trump is threatening Europe, and especially Germany with repercussions, if Germany do not start investing in military arms.
First of all, I absolutely agree, we should start investing in defense, but we shouldn’t do it because mr. Trump wants it, but because we need it ourselves.
Mr. Trump is not a bully, he is something else. After giving it a lot of thought, I have finally understood his tactics. He is a player, a poker player.
Like that mr. Putin is a martial arts expert, and fight like a martial arts, mr. Trump play like a poker player.
If we look at the content of the threats he is sending our way, there is actually very little he can do. He doesn’t have any friends but us. The military would never attack Europe. So all he can do, is to level some economic pressure on us. A pressure that is like cutting off the blood to his own leg.
We are a part of the American empire, if we want it or not. But we are essentially only a part of it because we have, so far, accepted American leadership. Why? Because we were friends, right?
So looking at the consequences, we should be realistic. Can we afford a reduced acces to the American market? Well yes, but they cannot actually afford loosing us. So my gues is, the sanctions they will or can impose, will only be symbolic.
Symbolic for what, well just a symbol of poker games.
Donald Trump is doing something, that he is very good at. He is bluffing.
But it is really a slap in the face of us here in Europe. We need to wake up, and take control of our own future.
We need to make our systems work, and start protecting ourselves.
We do not have the interest or time to fight the US.
We need to focus on IS and migration.
So, the best you can do if someone is bluffing, is calling it.
Say, ok, you have a hand, show it. What are you actually willing to do?
Then there will be some lame threats about economic sanctions, but hey. That is no problem for us.
So, let us start ignoring all these threats, and start focusing on what is really the matter. Us surviving.
G-d bless the will to survive.
Well, thing have changed again. As it always does.
In the interest of Europe and the rest of the world, let us have a view over the battlefield for dominance.
First of all, new cracks and positions are held WITHIN the US. The army and the liberal part of the political field is not that into the current strategy. They think it is too vague, and do not hold the necessary complexity of thinking in media, future political positions, power development over ten years, development of armament, the strategy of our enemies and friends into the plan.
Essentially Trump seems to go for the short term decisions. Dumping the Iran deal may have some benefits short term; the admiration and happiness of the Jewish people, which I share. But on the long term, the loss of influence in the region and the wedge made between the US and its European allies and the loss of focus against the real enemy is a problem.
At the other side, Mr. Trump seems so intent on closing the deal with North Korea that he forgets that the real enemy is China.
Peace with North Korea is fine, but if it gives China free room and space to develop its own forces and gain in production, then the deal is huge danger to the American way.
To me, the main issue here is focus. If you want to have success in a market, you need to focus your bets. Look at the long game, and sometimes sacrifice an easy win to gain victory long term.
Europe seems to be a bit split over the Iran deal. The EU bureaucracy is very much for it, Germany also. But France and the UK are a bit more lukewarm.
To me, that is how it will always be with more powers jockeying for dominance.
It gives Germany a serious chance to win the internal powergame of leading the military that the EU is trying to coordinate.
At the end of the day, it will take time to rebuild the armies of Europe, but we should be serious about what we need these armies for.
We need them, at the moment, to fight the IS insurgency that is in Europe. Also the development of a huge minority problem with hordes of unemployed migrants and descendants of migrants poses a serious problem, that needs to be tackled with the adequate security measures.
But lets see, maybe we can find the tune again. We need to cooperate, but we here in Europe need to be able to handle our owns problems. Invest in security and be honest about the massive problems that migration poses to the security of Europe in general.
G-d bless the will to be honest about these things.
So, now we are to control or try to control the downfall of the transatlantic alliance.
The US is not a behemoth anymore in terms of production output. It can still kick some …, but just beyond the two ponds, there are two very strong contenders. One is China, the other one is not the league of European Nations. That is France, Germany and the UK.
So far, Europe has been pretty lame, and not been that serious about its own security. That has changed dramatically due to two factors. 1. The US is not sticking to its promise of protecting Europe. 2. The migrant crisis is getting out of hand.
At the other side of the US, we have a contender who is rapidly gaining material wealth, that it wants to change into dominance.
Sticking with its friends seems to be the most wise decision in this difficult situation, that was my plan in the Obama era political time.
I wanted to focus IS, because that was and is the combined threat to the US AND Europe. We would have fought that menace together. In fact we did fight together. This at the other hand strengthened the hand against China a united Europe/US would easily fight down a rebellious China.
Now the US cannot rest assured that its European friends will help anymore, because of the slight Mr. Bolton gave to Europe after the Iran deal was scrapped.
So, short term its disastrous. Long term however it might just work out anyway. We here in Europe will off cause be friends with the US. We share values, history and tech.
But now it seems we are going on our own direction, developing our own security systems, and making alliances that is not in the interest of the US.
The good thing about that, is the fact that we here in Europe finally take some responsibility for our own security, and in five years, we will have a tough and serious defense. Yes, there are a lot of hoops and challenges we have to jump through and tackle. But we will get there.
Meanwhile the US will be on its own confronting China, and that weakened hand will soon be apparent.
China will not be so humble anymore. But more confident.
It all depends on the leadership of the US. We will see, but currently, it is all disaster.
G-d bless the will to be honest about these things, and do something about it.
Congratulations Israel with the 70’th birthday. A cause to celebrate, a place to call home in a hostile world.
There is no secret in the fact, that I was not that crazy about the dumping of the Iran deal. But the fact that the US moved its embassy to Jerusalem signifies the fact, that Jerusalem is the birthplace of Israel, and it is in the hands of Jews.
You can say much, but Trump is not the best of diplomats in the classical sense. That is doing all the kow towing of political compromise. But is a classical western man, fighting for his place in the sun, with the means he has.
Don’t get me wrong, I like that, I do it myself.
The problem however right now, is that I made a deal with Iran. So if I do not defend it, then my credibility is gone. I have to stick with the deals I make, or I will be seen as unserious.
So by forcing my hand, Trump has essentially forced the rest of the world to chose between my leadership or his own. It’s not that I believe that Trump wants to do that, that is just the effect of rejecting the Iran deal. Mr. Bolton does not see the historical picture, and how Obama and I made the deal because we fought down Ahmadinejad. He is new to the game.
I do not seek a confrontation with Mr. Trump, but I do want to keep focus on the issues i believe are the most important. Right now, that is the fight against IS. IS has just knifed down civilians in France, they are building a huge weapon of mass destruction towards Europe by destabilizing Middle African countries. THAT is a problem.
Iran seeks to further its power in the Middle East, all the powers in the Middle East seek to do that. I prefer peace, but the power game is the power game. We all play it. Right now, Iran has succes.
When Israel attacks Iran, Iran retaliates by proxy.
It’s just that, Iran is currently not a world menace. Ahmadinejad was, he sponsored different bad guy states around the world. Iran does not, it plays the Middle East power game, to the best of its ability.
So, I believe, that the rest of the world should just go on with the problems we face with IS.
G-d bless the will to be clear on our priorities.
CONGRATULATIONS Israel with the win in the European song contest. Well done, good song, and good performance, you make us proud.
Winning the European song contest is not only a show of artistry, it is also a very POLITICAL venue.
Here Europe and Europeans come together to have a good time, show each our strengths and just come together in a positive mood.
That Israel is heading and winning, is a clear sign from Europe, that Europe is on the side of Israel.
You could even see some Magen Davids flown, without fear.
That is a bit of a turnaround from the Second world war, Madame Blavatsky, Aryans, race theory and so on and so forth.
With the current shift in geostrategic power, this signs is very important I believe. It shows, that the elite is on Israels side, and all the terrible occurrences of antisemitic violence, is not the elites cup of tea.
In fact, I believe, that this is the time Europe must show, that we have learned from the second world war and the the persecution of Jews.
Will we accept that Jews cannot live in France or Denmark or Germany anymore, or are we going to do something about it?
We know very well who are behind all these attacks. Mostly people from Africa or the Middle East.
Do the math, more migration equals more antisemitism. Not all migrants are antisemitic. But the fact of the matter is, that many are, and the violence they are ready to do is not what we are used to here in Europe.
Draw the conclusion. Many migrants do not share european values.
We have a huge problem with antisemitism, anti humanism, antidemocratism. What more do we need to kick us out of the lethargy and inaction? What more? What else that is cherished as basic human rights and european virtue are we to sacrifice to pander to these barbarians?
Not all are barbarians, but many are, and we need to stand up to those who kill our journalists and the Jews.
G-d bless the will to stand up for what is right and true.
Often in the Middle East, peace is not an option, but just a break from more hostilities.
That has been the rule since mankind made its first city, the city of Eridu (Eden) in Irak.
But, that is not an argument for not trying. The entirety of religion has the aim of trying to find that peace. Why? Because that is what we are supposed to do to emulate the world of G-d, heaven.
We Jews have had a bad experience with making peace, I admit it. In fact, I agree with mr. Netanyahu with the Oslo peace process, it was a sham. Why? Because essentially the “Palestinians” have no incentive for peace. The more trouble they make, the more money the make. So, there is no reason for peace.
Also, the character of the people in Gaza is terrible. We have them here in Denmark, and they are at the top of crime statistics. These people are extremely unsympathetic.
But just because peace was not a possibility with Gaza, there are other times when peace has been a possibility. I work with the experience my family has. My great, great, great grandfather made peace with the Danes two hundred years ago.
After a lot of trouble Mendel Levin Nathanson, a leading Jew of his time, made a deal with the king, effectively making peace between the Danes and the Jews. There has been peace ever since.
How did this come by? It worked, because the leader of the Jews, my ancestor, was eloquent, trustworthy and truly a serious and good person.
He was also loyal to the Danish state, he gave a lot.
But, and that is really the true reason why it worked in Denmark. The Danish people is a good people. It has a beautiful character. Honest, serious and good.
THAT is why I believe that the Iran peace deal has held so far. Because the Palestinians are not good people, but the Iranians are good people.
Yes, we have been enemies, and in a sense we still are. But I do recognize, that the Iranian people are essentially a positive, noble people. Epitomized in the hero of Iran; Cyrus.
So the key to peace, is to understand the one you are dealing with, and make appropriate action according to their character.
It is not that we should not defend ourselves. I am defending Jews where I can. A Jew has never come to me, and not found help if he is in trouble. I am fighting for the Jews in Europe. One of the reasons I am fighting so much for remigration, is because the current influx of people to Europe are the worst antisemites that are in the Middle East, and that gives Jews a huge problem.
I am defending Jews if it is necessary.
But we must remember, that the aim is not eternal fighting, the aim is peace. We only fight if we have to. If we are not attacked, we should not fight them.
Peace is a difficult thing to find. Essentially you only find peace if you stand at a position of strength. You have to be strong to find peace with others. And you have to be ready to defend yourself. As with all the empires who have fought us and lost.
But, we should find peace wherever possible.
G-d bless the will to find peace.
Well, we have to face it. We have lost the Americans strategically. We are essentially left to our own means in and around Europe.
I know that Mr. Trump believes that harrasing his persons of interest into submission will work with both Iran AND Europe.
But seriously. There is a bit of difference between a small weak player in Asia and then the other hegemon across the pond.
We are not weak, we are just not interested in fighting that much.
But we can effectively just ignore the threats, and then carry on. What can the US do?
So, instead of using so much energy on a hapless idiocy, we should continue with the strategy.
Lets recap.
We targeted Islamic State in the Middle East because they were effectively a neutral target out of the game between Sunni and Shia. This gave the hard core islamists a place to be, and kept our allies out of the fire. We still need to tackle the radical islamists.
IS is, more or less, finished in the Middle East, but are still active around the world, not at least in the African states, where they seek to make a weapon of mass destruction to Europe.
Migration has become a weapon.
We cannot afford anymore migration, and we need to remigrate 70 – 80 percent of the migrants that is in Europe already. These being either criminal or islamists.
This is not about racism, but about a threat to national security.
This strategy is supported by all major powers around the world. We can reach Russia and all the powers of the Middle East. Except for Turkey and Quatar, supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood.
Concerning Iran, well, we made a deal, we have invested. The Americans threaten us. Instead of pandering and accepting these lame and hollow threats. Let us just ignore them, and keep supporting the Iranians.
There are all the wars going on in the Middle East, and the threat from the Saudi/Israeli alliance. Essentially we are not picking sides. We just want to make peace, especially concerning nuclear armament. Because that will spiral the situation out of control.
Both sides know this, and that is why they essentially respect the peace deal. No-one wins if the wars turn into nuclear apocalypse.
Its like using triangle knives or nervegas. They are forbidden by international law for a reason, they are simply too cruel weapons. Everybody accepts that soldiers honor, because there is honor also to war.
So, let us carry on with our own interests. Prop up Rouhani, who really needs us, and focus on IS.
G-d bless the will to be fair in war.
Well, it seems to me. That the entire EU bloque wants to be the leader of the world.
There are several prerequisites to this however.
1. You need to stop trying to harass and subdue me. I know, that this is the direct order of the Danish civil system, but you need to prevent it. I cannot work, and honestly it would not make much sense to work for the EU system if you at the same time try to kill me.
2. You need to rearm. Especially Germany, the largest country needs to rearm. This is difficult due to the lack of confidence since the Second World War. But that is the aim. Make sure, that there are no pro Erdogan officers in the force. They are a potential danger.
3. We need to make sure, that the migration threat is controlled. By that I mean, WE have to take responsibility, and turn it around.
4. We need to reform the system, so that it reflects the current intellectual level. We have a rennaissance in Europe now, the civilization should reflect it. I need a hands up on this, to keep churning out ideas is a waste of time, if it is not used.
G-d bless the European Union.
The situation of the Middle East have gone from peaceful to total chaos in just two days. That is the way it is with an area that is embroiled in war, and has been for the last 5000 thousand years.
Such a violent area is not going to go hippie peaceful within the next 200 years. It can be ok, there can be limits and so on. But total peace is just not possible in an area where there are so many different factions and civilization was born.
One thing that actually did work, was to put an end to nuclear armament. Yes, I know that it was not perfect, but it actually worked where it should, stopping the proliferation of nuclear warheads.
I dont know if the strategy of Mr. Trump and Mr. Bolton will work. Increased pressure on an adversary that was born because the US failed it? I don’t think so, but I was surprised by the peace solution of North Korea, so why not?
If it does not work however, we have enterede a total new situation, where things may just go into total chaos and the Middle East will be wrought in even more war than today.
We will see, the next 48 hours will be giving us an answer, the alternative is a renewed effort of the European states to be a peacekeeper.
G-d bless the will to find peace.
When you look at Human rights, you see a list of rules. If you do not know anything about law, you would presume, that the rules are the important.
With this, you a very wrong.
Take another system of laws, that of the book of Moses, the Torah. That is also a long list of laws, but beneath all the laws, there are certain principles that guide the laws. The first of it is reciprocity. That is, the evil deed you do, must be met with a punishment equal to the wrong done.
You can call it an eye for an eye, or look at the scales by the goddess of justice.
The point is, there is an IDEOLOGICAL idea behind the system of law.
If we here in Europe are going to 1. Play a leading role in international politics. 2. Reform our own system so that it actually works. We need to understand the PRINCIPLES behind the law system that is supposed to guide us, Human rights.
The virtue that we are talking about is Justice.
Justice is the aim of law.
So, the pertinent question is; what is justice?
Here we are faced with a philosophical question, that is not solved ultimately, but has facets that we can discuss. Remember, we are wanting to spread European culture, so we need to understand it.
The first starting point in understanding what justice is, is by going back to its roots.
They are, Babylon/Ur and Egypt.
The Mesapotamian development 4 – 5 thousand years back is what we are truly still working with today. But Egypt, that was the other great power player at that time, has a unique understanding of justice, that we need to understand as well.
According to Hammurabi, justice is protection of the weak. You can see it on human rights, all the different parties we seek to protect, are parties that are potentially weak. So that is why we put in all the articles.
Sometimes it has to be revised, if a party that used to weak becomes strong and abuses the system. As we have the problem with violent migrants in Europe. They are not weak anymore, but strong and abuse the idiocy of the current Human Rights leadership to their advantage.
The world changes, and the weak is now women of Europe who are abused in many different ways. So, Human rights needs to see the change.
But back to justice and Egypt. According to ancient Egyptian lore, justice is what is true.
The Egyptians, the original humanists, had a faith in truth as the divine motor of justice. There is a very famous story about a peasant that is wrongly accused of taking land from a wealthy land owner. He calls upon TRUTH to be the divine protection in his case.
So we have social justice and truth as the motor of laws.
That is someting we at the liberal part of the politcal spectrum can admit to. The difficult thing is then the CHANGE.
How do we actually look upon these values and virtues today. I suppose it takes a philosopher to CHANGE the perspective.
But everybody can actually do it, it just takes an investment in poor and disenfranchised and human heart filled with true honesty to understand it.
This will break some taboos, and create a whole new perspective, and that is, rightly the leadership of the Human rights council that are supposed to do that. But they are not strong enough intellectually and has a deep enough integrity to do that. So I have to step in.
I know that this may seem as humiliating, but the alternative is the dismantling of the system itself, so I have to be a little tough on these things. To keep the integrity of the system.
G-d bless the willingness to Change.
When there is a new situation with an international agreement, well, then we have to change the way we deal with international arrangements.
As the Iran deal has been scrapped by the US, things are different in the Middle East.
I do not think that the Iranians are prone to react positively on renewed pressure, especially since the deal was made together with so many other powers, so that they can see, that if they hold on to the arrangements all that will happen is that the adversaries of Iran will be split.
But that is the way it is, by doing absolutely nothing, Iran can put in a wedge between the Western powers.
So what do the European powers do now, with all this new international clout?
It has been a while since the European powers have played an international role, so we might as well try to start remembering how it was.
Essentially it comes down to skill with the international game.
You can be a small player materially, like Denmark, and still play a leading role. If you have the cultural and intellectual capabilities.
But the core of international diplomacy is not diplomacy, but raw military power.
So, we can start our adventure here, but we need to invest heavily in armament to fulfill the promise we have.
We need to make new weapons, and use a great deal more of our money on that.
Secondly, we have to focus on the immediate challenges ahead of us.
That is migration and IS.
We have a stronger profile in Middle Africa, but we need to capitalize on the money and investments we send that way. There should be only one serious demand. The countries must admit their citizens back if they are caught in Europe.
At the same time, the military fight they have in Africa is as well our fight. The radical IS backed guerrillas there needs to be stopped.
But we need to push the African Nations to start taking their people back.
If we add serious border control to this strategy, then we have a solution to the migration issues.
The same goes for the Middle East, to get European help, you need to accept your citizens back. We will help, support and build infrastructure. But as soon as there is an option for the migrants to go back, they must.
That is our priority.
Add to this, I believe that we should make peaceful agreements to all who want that.
We should also keep out of the Sunni/Shia competition. As long as they stay clear of Israel, all we wish to do, is to make peace.
G-d bless the will of peace.
The core of European culture, as of now, is Human rights.
But what are these Human rights; a set of rules and regulations that I have pressed into a new direction.
How may I do this a mere philosopher. Add to this a renegade, a troublemaker, and a recipient of torture, harassment by the state, radical muslims and many, many others.
Essentially Human rights is a set of laws. That is the essence, and then you may ask, laws, ok but these are just rules right?
Well, laws are not just rules, laws are a system of a philosophical theory that goes all the way back Hammurabi, the Babylonian king who invented law as we have it today.
So, what was it, that Hammurabi really wanted with his laws. You can trace it back over Plato, who is the foremost describer og natural law we have.
In essence what he claims is, that law is a states protection of the weak.
Civilization is a state that protects the weak against the strong.
If we live without law, the strongest will rule. But law protects people who may not be strong, so that even the weak can have a nice living.
So law is a social protection system.
That is the core of Human rights, to support laws, so that the weak are not preyed upon by the strong.
Lately the natural law discussion have turned the very foundation and meaning with law upside down. Many judges see their purpose as protecting the evil doer. By using the hallowed halls of justice to protect rapists and murderers.
By doing that, law itself is in danger of loosing its purpose and support by the European people.
THAT is why I have been adamant in my attempt to change the direction of Human rights to its basis.
According Heraclitus, Law is like the inner wall of a city. If the citizens take the law into themselves, law is upheld and the rule of the strong is curbed by people themselves.
THAT is civilization, and that is the aim of Law. To be so accepted by the citizens, that they automatically adhere to it.
If I had not lifted the handbrake forcefully, the inner adherence to the law, may have broken down in Europe, because of lack of understanding by the human rights council.
So, I urge you to reconsider the very essence of Human rights, and see it as it is.
A SOCIAL system, where the strong, the criminal is put down by law enforcement so that the weak may be safe.
We fight for the kids, the elderly, the ones without a home, the lonely, the poor.
Those are the ones we protect, so lift yourselves up to a new understanding of Law and civil rights, and fight for it.
When you see that a girl is raped, don’t protect the rapist. Protect the girl.
When a homeless man is kicked and abused, don’t protect the kicker, protect the homeless man.
Otherwise, you are making YOURSELVES criminal, and that was not the intention of Law.
G-d bless Hammurabi, the inventor of Law.
Change is, to me, to understand the theories that our forefathers made in their situation, and then reapply new theories to tackle the situation you are in today.
Take Marx, he lived in an age, where the industrialization began. I think all agree, that the industrial Great Britain needed Change in their time. The Workers were living in terrible conditions, and even his eminence, Winston Churchill admitted this, and Changed it.
I dont know if many people know, but Winston Churchill was a Socialist in his younger days, and put in the wealth fare state in the UK.
Today however, the problems are not that Workers are living in terrible living conditions, but the fact that the European Union doesn’t have a clue about political architecture. So, taking a bit of Socialism and a bit of Democracy and then let the Banks run the rest, is a bad idea.
You need the philosophers to run the show. Because we are the ones who actually know how to make a political system.
You know, if you have a house where the roof is leaking, the floor is half rotten, the staircase fallen apart. What do you do? You call a carpenter to fix the house.
So if the carpenter tells you you need a straight staircase, a new roof and a new floor the what do you do? You look at your purse and see if you can afford it, you do not plot how to kill the carpenter. That is a stupid strategy, sorry.
So, there is only one carpenter available in town, that is me. So, instead of trying to kill, look at your purse, and see if you afford my services.
Off cause, it will not cost you anything to hire me. But it will cost you, if you do not get your house in order.
You cannot afford it.
So, I will help you, but stop being so stuck on knowing about carpentry. You DO NOT know anything about how a house is supposed to be build, you just need a place to live.
Leave it to the professionals who took a long education, worked as a carpenter for a long time, and then as a result actually know how to fix a house.
If you then follow his instructions, down to the very letter, you may just end up having a brand new house.
You want oaken planks and a brand new kitchen, no problem. Just DONT KILL THE CARPENTER!!!
G-d bless the will to be humble in the face of realizing, that you know nothing. But that will make you the wisest guy in Athens.
There is one overriding problem with the European Union, that is the fact it works against a force that no political construct has ever been able to work against. The needs of the people.
Essentially the negative end of a political construct is the needs of people. That is the red line a political architecture cannot cross. Take the Tzar regime in Russia, when people did not have anything to eat, they rebelled. The NEED to eat was not met, and the empire went down. The same happened in France, it was not the briliance of the ideas of the French philosophers that really started the revolution, it was the fact, that people had nothing to eat.
The same problem is now prevalent in Europe, you cannot make a political construct, and then reduce the security situation to lethal to the people living in it.
The problem, aside from the obvious moral problem, is the fact, that it will not work as a political construct. The NEEDS of the people to have security and peace is not met, so they rebel.
At the other end, the true aim of a political system is harmony. This is created bu using the tools in the toolbox. That is law, democracy as the core, and then added systems as free trade, loyalty of production to the nation and so on.
You can also make a wealthfarestate if you have the resources and the system is hermetically closed.
See? Political architecture is an art form, and so far we have been really bad at it in Europe, and the result is rebellion and destruction.
What you need to do, is to fix it by understanding the principles of government ship.
But first of all, you need to meet the NEEDS of the people. Right now the need to be safe.
G-d bless the will to truly understand civilization.
To Change the European Union, one has to understand, the problems that the union see.
At the core of it, is a principle that Marx got all wrong.
Marx wanted to make a copy of the Spartan state, that is the ancient city state of the Greek classical world.
Whereas the French Revolution was a renaissance for Democracy, that is, in the classical times Athens, the Communist revolution was an attempt at remaking the Spartan state.
That is a communal state where no-one owns anything, and the state is the family of the Spartans.
Well, the great fault of Marx was, that Lycurgus, the philosopher who founded Sparta was quite clear about one thing, in fact that was the very prerequisite of the Spartan state. It was to be hermetically closed.
Spartans were spartans, not anybody else.
Hence, the ability to make a communal state.
If you look at Marxist states around the world, you can see, that only Marxist states that are actually closed work. Or rather, they do not disintegrate as Communist states usually do due to a flawed political architecture (Marx was pretty shallow when it came to truly understanding Sparta).
EU is essentially an attempt on making a Social-democratic state.
It is flawed for exactly this reason. You cannot wish to make a Democratic/Socialist state, and then make it open.
It does not work that way, Lycurgus says it, and he is a philosopher on a higher level than Marx.
So, that is really the remedy of the current problems. Each people should have borders around them, and the general borders should be enforced.
That is the key, to make Europe have a come back. In the meantime, off cause some of the barbarian migrants who are here, must be remigrated. Not all are barbarians, but some are, and those who do not accept and respect our laws tear down the cohesion of the society, bring destruction to states.
They cannot be allowed that.
So, put in borders around people, to make them save, and make the socialist wealthfare-states working again.
This way, we heed the principles of Sparta, the true principles of Sparta.
That is the only way it can work, otherwise we should stop Socialism, because a flawed political architecture is some of the most devastating and destructive in the world.
Look at the world today, see all the devastation these flawed ideas have brought, and be honest about it.
G-d bless the European Union.
We are actually making a turn around in Europe. When I first started politics, it was as a rebel in SIAD. I still remember how I descended upon Bruxelles and almost tore Belgium into pieces. Some ten years ago.
After that, Ms. Helle Thorning Schmidt was tasked with shutting me up, something she was so thorough with, that she almost killed me, and started torturing my little daughter.
That was actually the first spark to start the Ukraine war.
The EU system was, at that point, very far down the lane of inhuman action. Ok, they did not control Thorning Schmidt, so off cause it is not really their fault, the fault lies at the feet of that …., never mind.
So, now I have become a well established blogger, with a load of clear wins for the Western democratic system behind me. Especially the run I did with mr. Obama was a clear humanistic/democratic victory.
So, there is only one who can change the narrative of Europe, and, even though I loath to put myself forward, it is me.
But, I mean, there has been bumps on the road right?
You almost condoned the actions of Thorning Schmidt. And so far, I have not seen that branch of olive pointing my way.
There are no medals on my breast or anything.
You could have given me an excuse, but you just wanted to control me.
But, my role is not to put myself first, it is to put you first. To make people of Europe thrive and be happy. That is my role, if I ever become selfish, it does not work.
I believe, that in essence, politics is about sacrifice. The more you sacrifice, the more you make the world better.
My good friend Mr. David Webble a renowned Cornell scholar and a expert in sacrifice (check out his books, they are really, really good) believes that miracles will happen, if you sacrifice yourself.
If you think only about yourself, G-d will not help you.
That is truly the Change I believe that European Union needs to address. How do we help, set ourselves below the citizens, be servants, and not the other way around.
Only a miracle can save Europe now from total collapse. If you need a miracle, you need to pray.
But you also need to shed your own ambition, and serve those who put you at a place of power.
It is not, that you shouldn’t fight for your freedom or your rights. Especially human rights. But it is about doing it for other people, not yourself.
That is the cure, and that is truly the only way.
Be open, humanistic, and have the courage to enlighten the world.
G-d bless a renewed Europe.
It is with the most terrible feeling, that I see what is happening to the UK these days.
The UK is treated like a slave, and poor Mrs. May is not left with a chance to get a deal.
It was the same with Mr. Cameron. The reason why he was toppled was because the EU system did not want to play ball.
Listen, the United Kingdom is one of the greatest and most humane powers the earth has ever witnessed. It lifted humanity from scrabbling for a few scraps of food, to a dazzling civilisation.
This is what we are trying to enslave, by giving mrs. May no room to maneuver.
It is a sin, and a crying shame.
If I were Mrs. Merkel and Mr. Macron I would get on the phone with Mrs. May and ask her what she wants, and how we could do it.
Make a fair deal.
We all need a strong and confident UK when all this negotiations is over. We need the UK to be a powerhouse and a beacon of civilisation as it has the potential to be.
To humiliate the Brits will only get us one angry beast, that will tear out in desperation. A beast that powerful is not something you wish to fight.
So give them an opportunity to make a fair deal. At the same time, reform the system to a more simple and realistically functioning system a UN of Europe.
Then probably the UK will wish to join.
If we do not bind them, but just make a platform to communicate and make arrangements, then why not?
Lets perhaps have a look at ourselves, and see our own faults, instead of believing everybody else are to blame.
Set them free, and they will come back. That is an old proverb of love. And it is the same here.
You cannot chain the ones you love to yourself, but you can set them free, however difficult it is, and they will come back on their own terms.
G-d bless the will to find a fair deal for England.
We are gearing up for a new angle on European power. So, what was really the aim of the European Union? It was to make a system where upon Europe could make a new powerbase.
The idea was, that if we put our ressources together we could be a new player internationally.
Well guess what, this is what is happening when and if the Iran deal will rest on European power.
Europe is a player in its own right once again.
So, since that basic aim of the union is accomplished, maybe it is time to think about what now.
First of all, we need to reform the system. Instead of having a overblown bureaucracy in Bruxelles then make the arrangements locally. So that the things we do in Europe is arranged between the different states.
Cut down the bureaucracy, and send the power back to the national parliaments.
The Union will then be the framework, that the powers will use to make arrangements.
That will work.
Having a grotesque, corrupt, overblown system that nobody wants will in fact tear the system down.
But having a small flexible servant to the nations, and kind of UN system will be much more stable.
G-d bless the will to do the right thing, and Change while we still can.
Concerning the Iran deal, there is a certain profile to it, that now seems to be coming through.
Essentially the European powers want to keep it, and the US together with the leader of Israel wants to scrap it.
What comes after the deal seems to be unclear seen from an American perspective, so in essence, it just seems like a voter promise mr. Trump wants to realize. Good, fair enough, but we here in Europe still need to live very close to the Middle East, and the problems there tend to spill into Europe, so it is in our best interest to work and help the Middle Easterns.
Right now, only Germany and France are a part of the international great power game due to the fact, that the UK is mired in trouble on the homefront.
There is also the fact, that European powers, especially Germany wants to keep peace with Russia as well, so we really have situation, where the ligthposts are shining down a path of peace in and around Europe.
We also have the problem of ISIS brining mayhem to central Africa, to force new waves of migrants. The last time it was an effective weapon of mass destruction. A lot of the European states are still reeling from the impact, and it changes the mood of most european states, from absolute dovishness, to a more hawkish attitude.
Still European politics have not caught up with the development in France and Germany, but threats are threats and we have to meet them somehow.
But back to the Iran deal. It is really in the best interest of European powers to keep the deal.
We do not do this to meddle or threaten Israel in any way. On the contrary, we do it to help the peaceprocess.
We are essentially in the middle between the US and Russia, and we are slowly digging ourselves out of the lethargy of the second world war.
So Europe will, if the Iran deal holds be a great power again.
This will give Europe both benefits as well as problems.
Being a great power means that you can essentially project your will on the world.
Before the second world war, we did it by colonializing the parts of the world that we wanted to control. This is not really an option these days, but an strengthened profile is a possibility.
What we need is the following to realize that role:
1. We need to control the EU bureaucracy. They are supposed to serve us, not the other way around.
2. We need to bolster our military capabilities.
3. We need to enforce a remigration of IS operatives in Europe, and by that also the “swamp”, that is the backdrop of the IS operatives, all the islamists who are supporting the IS operatives.
4. We need to make sure our borders are working.
The strategy for IS is pretty clear. They want to swamp us with migrants, in order to ruin our states. We need to take a responsible stance to that. Help the African states, but at the same time stop the migrants from coming in, and remigrate them when they enter, have entered, or are on the borders.
We need to realize, that the destabilization of the Central African states is done to fight Europe, and make a sound and serious approach to that.
G-d bless the will of Europe to counter the threats that is there.
The Middle East is changing due to the fact, that Mr. Trump has become president, and we have new players as Mr. Macron.
This is not the first time, that the battlefield changes, but the priorities remain the same, more or less.
First of all, everybody wants peace, but on their own terms. The west wants a more democratic development, the East wants to fortify and solidify its presence.
In the middle we have rogue powers everybody wants to beat, and that unites the two wings, that is Islamic state, that has won an independent status.
It all comes down to Syria, that is the problem right now. That is, there are other fights going on, but because Syria is the last pearl on the string of states Barack and I tried to make democratic in the Arab spring, everybody is involved. Actually Yemen is much worse in terms of warfare and fighting, but that is a feud between Sunni and Shia, so the great powers are not that much involved.
To zoom back to the initial mission, that of spreading democracy in the Middle East. We need to see the fight in this light, I believe.
So seen from a Western perspective, we hope to spread democracy.
How do we do that?
Democracy rests on individual peoples. That is, the Kurds for instance, they are a people, they have taken up the Democratic cause, so they are prime allies to the West.
Mr. Assad is a protector of the Alawite, and a Herdian democratic believer.
There are other factions in Syria, but seen from the perspective of the West, the most probable course of action, to me, is to split the country into ethnic factions, so that each people has a country of their own.
In this country, we off cause need to see a civilized and democratic development.
The whole problem in the Middle East right now is the split of territory that the Western powers made after the first world war. It did not follow any lines of peoples, but was a haphazard and random split. Lawrence of Arabia wanted something else, he wanted the Middle East to be governed by the peoples there. He also had the knowledge of the roots of these peoples, and his plan would have been much better than the plan that was set in action.
Instead of drawing lines on the map. Look at people, give them a home and a place of their own. Somewhere where they can develop peacefully and with control of their own means.
That will give the Middle East some peace.
G-d bless the will to find peace again.
We are facing a rising China, this means, that we need to truly understand what China is.
China is not something new, it is a truly ancient place.
The first few states of China were kingdoms, and truly lost in the veil of time. But they had wisdom and a unique blend of spirituality and system of governance.
The most prominent of them being Con Fut Tze and Lao Tze. On the one hand the bureaucratic idealist, and on the other hand the hippie/poetic liberalist.
Essentially China is mix of these two strands of thought. The conservative being the Confusian bureaucrat with a support of country, family and system, and the other hand the hippie freethinker.
China basically is a bureaucratic state.
This is really the strength of China today, because all Chinese are brought up with the discipline and loyalty to the state. Put this in motion with so many people, and you have a pretty impressive powerful, potentially dominating entity.
Add to this the freshness of their new existence, and you have the same movement as in the Frontier days of the US.
The weakness of the anthill of China however is their inability to give a good fight. They have not fought successfully for themselves since the Vietnam war, and are not a warring people.
The only reason they won in the Vietnam war, was because they were supported heavily by Russia, and Russian are VERY good fighters.
The world has changed a lot since the days of psy ops and media manipulation. So the battle field is new.
Where you in the Cold War could get at the big powers by manipulating the media, this is not possible anymore, because the media has changed dramatically with the advent of the internet.
The truth is there to be found.
This gives the generals a much wider range of possibilities, and it favors brute force.
The Chinese are essentially still living in the Cold War mentality. Focusing on manipulation (cyberwar) and underestimating the force of a united Western force.
They will not live for five minutes.
At the same time, the Chinese are expanding aggressively with bases at sensitive spots around the world, without having the necessary military capabilities to back it up. They are essentially over confident.
This will not continue, as their production base grow, they will be able to support and build more military vehicles.
Anyway, they are not good at classic warfare, so we should meet them there.
Build up our allied forces around them, and if they do not stop their continued siphering of our secrets and steal our production, we should finish off their production capabilities. That will cripple their economy, and set them back to point of start. Then they can rebuild, but at a more sensitive and balanced way.
G-d bless the belief in a sanctioned approach to China.
The world is, strategically divided between different enemies. I am, partially fighting for the West, but still see it as vital to keep a good relationship to the East.
Both Russia and the Anglo Saxons are descendents of searaiders from Scandinavia. So the culture is different in the US and Great Britain, but the outset is the same. The Russians have had a rougher time in around the turn of the 1000 century, with Mongol raiders and ultimately the fall of Constantinople, the Eastern wing of the Roman Empire, that Russia is the heir to.
But they, at the other hand, expanded earlier than the West, in some respects. So their customs and experiences are different.
But, the peacekeeping between East and West is not impossible, if we realize, that we are not so different.
The Russians see Sweden as their mother country, but also have kept good relations to Denmark over the years. Many Russians princesses and queens have come from Denmark. We even have a little Russian church in the centre of Copenhagen.
We in Denmark try and see as our mission to keep the ideas of the Scandinavians as pure and fresh as possible. The fight for freedom and democratic ideas. Add to this the lore of the ancient G-ds.
My name for instance is a viking name, Asger means the tree that upholds middle Earth and Valhalla.
My point is, there is not so much difference between East and West, as one would imagine. There is a possibility for peace, if we shed the veils of ignorance, and see each other for what we are.
We are all pirates originally, we have evolved. But the great, strong, proud warrior, that made the place we now live in, is kin to the other sea pirate that went the other way.
G-d bless the will to make peace between the East and West.
Thank you very much gentlemen. I believe, that if the current saber rattling between east and west had continued, we would have ended up in a third world war.
Just because the media is hysterical, it does not mean, that we cannot remain level headed. It is not the spur of the moment that should decide things as war and warfare. The consequences of the decisions of such things are too severe not to be looked at level headed.
So thank you mr. Trump and thank you mr. Putin for your steadfastness and seriousness in this situation.
It could have ended up in destruction and global war.
If you take a step back, and think about the consequences of that, then you realize, that this should be avoided at all costs.
There are still wars with Islamic state and others, but that is absolutely dwarfed by the mayhem that a third world war would have costed humanity. It would have been the end of the civilized world. Are we ready to go down that path?
So please, let the reconciliation begin, let us talk and not just throw mud at each other, and let us have the courage to look our own beast in its eyes.
I look them in the eyes everyday. I fight islamic state, with honor, and to me they are not so frightening. Yes, I respect them as worthy adversary. And I honor their courage, going up against our machine.
But nevertheless, they are an enemy, and I treat them like that.
That is what we are supposed to do, be men and women of courage.
G-d bless the will to be courageous in the face of strife, and find peace after that fight.
One of the keys for a sustainable Israel, is the connection and fusion of faiths in and around Israel.
As the venerable rav Ashlag prophesied, peace in the world would happen, when there is a common mansion of thought, that all three Abrahamic religions share.
This project, is essentially what will give Israel peace.
How do I know this. It is because, ever since I started this project, Israel has become more and more popular. So Ashlag is right.
It makes sense also, because why would the other religions attack someone who can give them a better understanding of themselves.
The light of Israel is thus a grand project, beyond our imagination.
Please, let us all shed the tears for those have fallen, but then again stop our agression towards those who we do not need to fight.
There is no reason to fight someone you know, and you share a platform with.
G-d bless the peace Israel will give eventually, and happy birthday.
We need to have a closer look at China, and the problems China poses to the West.
The most obvious parallel is the fight between Rome and Phoenicia. You know the fight where Hannibal Barca braved the alps with his war elephants and made a lot of trouble for the Romans.
This is a classic great power battle that does not stem from ideological differences, but because one power rises, and threatens the other power.
Before the rise of Rome, Phoenicia was one of the leading lights of the Mediterranean world, and still holds great honor as, among other things, the inventor of Stoicism.
Phoenicia was a very advanced civilization, that rose through trade, and expanded through a businesslike process of hiring mercenaries at each expansion of its realm.
Rome at the other hand, was a new beast at the arena, young forceful, ressourcefull, sure of itself.
You could draw a parallel and see the West as the Phoenicians and China as Rome.
We are the established, war weary nation, China is the new rising, selfconfident star.
But you could also turn it around. Because we in the West are the children of Rome, and China is not.
The Thycudides trap it is called, when two powers find themselves trapped in a mutual race for power, prestige and ressources.
The problem about the Punic war was, that it was a relentless war. The winner took it all. The escalating conflict made the animosity between Rome and Phoenicia so dire, that Rome eradicated Phoenician totally after they had won. They smashed everything, everything. Buildings, literature, boats.
They made sure, that Phoenicia would never rise again. Totally sure.
This gives a hint of the hatred that Rome felt for its adversary.
So, in comparison with the current war, we should be aware, that if it folds out as in the punic war, the atrocities and mayhem it will bring, will either eradicate us or them.
See what we are up against? THAT is why we need to do our best to prepare, and perhaps defuse the large and true evil conflict.
You may be afraid of the eradication of Chinas production capability. But the alternative is a war where either the West or China wins. If we end up in Punic war theatre, the victor will eradicate the looser totally.
I will cover the China again soon, with more analysis.
G-d bless the will to learn from history, otherwise we will repeat it.
We in the West have been doing quite ok lately, especially mr. Barack Obamas presidency was succesful in terms of international prestige and philosophical progress. The ideas of Change, that is a Socialdemocratic ideology has actually had a revival.
Especially the liberal or Democratic philosophical cause has actually been bettered.
It seems to me, that the current administration actually wants to follow in our footsteps, so that is ok.
We defined two major enemies; Islamic State and China. Why?
First of all, China is an enemy, because it has continuously siphoned knowledge, ideas and production capability from the West. This without being on the side of the West strategically.
Continue this, and we would be the laughing stock and push over in some years.
I would just go fast and blitzkrieg, terminate their production capability while we still hold the upper hand militarily, and then that would end the stand off.
But, there are a lot of worry and I understand that. The war will come sooner or later, sooner is better, because it gives us the best possible strategic advantage.
With Russia, we do not have any quarrel, and we cannot afford a two front war, so we should remain friends.
Then the next enemy, Islamic State.
There is a lot of strategy and planning that goes into fighting that enemy. Not at least strategy, that takes Western Europe into consideration.
First of all, focusing on an enemy, that is only a part of the muslim world, gives the muslim world a way out. Fight all muslims would effectively force all muslims to fight us, and they do not wish to fight us, so why should we then fight them?
Secondly, the special thing about Islamic State is the fact, that they are a POLITICAL enemy. They fight our Democracy, and they fight for a POLITICAL version on Islam, that of the Caliphate and the Sharia law. Two entities that do not mix with our Democracy and rule of law by the people.
So we do not attack the muslim religion, but only the political part of islam.
Thirdly, these are the ones who are attacking us, so it makes sense to fight back.
Fourthly, there is a very difficult discussion in Europe concerning racism and islamophobia. If we are clear on our attacks that only focus the political part of islam, well, then we avoid these accusations.
It is not about racism, or hatespeech or any such thing, it is an honest fight against an enemy who wants to destroy our Democracy, and uses inhuman methods like terror and raping.
So essentially we do not wish to target any minorities or anything like that, only the political strand of Islam that makes terror and do inhuman things.
Fifthly, there is a plan for the handling of islamists and islamist networks in Europe. That is to repatriate all these enemies, either to their own homecountry, or to an island somewhere safe.
This will ensure, that we do not fight inhumanely, and we tackle this poisonous enemy.
Its real, the terror attacks are real, the networks are real.
In essence, we have created a fine, honest and serious plan for Europe. We have even had green light from the Human rights council for this plan to be put in action.
I hope this will be used to a good effect, it is better to fight an inhuman enemy, than to cower in the dark.
G-d bless the will to confront our enemies with valor, and win.
The attacks in Syria is not good, why? Because it does not make much sense strategically.
To fight in the Middle East, one needs to understand the extremely complicated powerstruggles there.
How do you understand these powerstruggles? You do it by understanding the web of history in the Middle East.
Just take Egypt. Egypt is the oldest known state in the world. It started before anything else.
The same goes for Irak. Irak is the descendant of Babylon, who can trace its story all the way back to the first city of Eden.
Iran is Persia, who used to be Zoroastrians, who used to be Hittities.
We the Jews are a part of that web for good or worse ever since Abraham.
So, in order to make a strategy that makes sense for the Middle Easterns, you need to understand who your true enemies are, and your friends.
There are essentially two factions right now, that fights for hegemony in the Middle East. One is the shia muslims, the other is the sunni muslims.
Sunni muslims being arabs, and shia being Persian. Two very distinct peoples, who have been fighting each other for millennia.
It is a bit like the Roman Catholic and the Byzantine Orthodox.
When Barack and I called the shots, we first fought the shia for some time, but as the shia realized, that we were a serious international player, and we wanted peace. They settled for a peace deal.
Concerning the sunni, there is a very important internal division within the sunni community.
There is the pro western and the pro islamist, or anti western.
What Barack and I did was to make an alliance with the pro western forces, and fight the anti western alliance. That is muslim brotherhood, Islamic State, Turkey, Quatar.
It had the effect, that for once in a thousand years there actually was a player in the Middle East, who could reach both sunni and shia, and make peace.
We did make peace, a peace that is now unraveling.
Thing is, if we do not fight our enemies, but use our limited resources on attacks that make no real sense strategically, then we are out of the game, and we will be prey to our enemies.
The enemies being the muslim brotherhood and China.
Its real, France has been attacked, Germany attacked, the UK has a HUGE problem with the muslim brotherhood, the mayor of London being one of them.
After Barack stopped, Clinton revived the Cold War mechanics, because she was angry for having lost the election. This was, to me, wrong.
All the carefully planned and executed strategies that was in place after mr. Obama, was destroyed, and this brings us here, at the brink of another stupid Cold War.
I mean, we had just put that in the grave, now we have to start all over.
Luckily the Russian feels and understands, that the Obama fraction of the Liberal party has NOT supported this idiocy, and there is still an open window for cooperation and peaceful acceptance.
Focus our enemies, like the ones who really fight us, and we will win. Not focusing on the enemies, will bring us fatal problems, and a huge loss of prestige.
G-d bless the will to see clearly.
Ok, so the international human rights council in Strassbourg has had a bit of a beating by Denmark.
We have just finished a major discussion on the content and direction of the court.
To be honest, the direction it goes right now, is something I came up with, so off cause I am pretty satisfied.
At the same time I thank the judges for their open-mindedness and cooperation. Thank you you honors, it is a pleasure to work with you.
Why did I propose a rethinking of the human rights council?
Because the time we are in now is different from when the original document was written. Under the French Revolution, the writers were young idealists who had a world to win, and they did.
But now, it is almost 240 years after, and the idealism is not enough anymore. What was before seen as a renewal and something beautiful is today seen as something common.
We take human rights for granted.
Today the problem is essentially lack of support for the beautiful ideas of the French Revolution.
The ideas have been corroded and corrupted, and people are starting to abuse the freedom of the state to gain for themselves. The freedom has become a burden.
This is where the philosopher is supposed to guard democracy, and protect it against the dangers of complete collapse.
The greatest danger to our liberal democracies these days, is the complete disregard for the peoples of Europe. They are seen as pieces on a chessboard, and the psychological entity of the Nationhood in Europe and the West in general, is not respected.
A nation is a people.
To regain some sense of peoplehood, those who are living on the territories of the former sovereign nations of Europe, needs to see, that the essential rules of the democratic system is respected by the newcomers, otherwise they will also lose the faith in the states.
That is why, the fight for a democratic idealism and support to the values of Democracy is paramount.
We need to turn the corruption and reinvigorate the faith in Democracy where it is lacking.
And people needs to see, that the states can and will protect them against the aliens who are not respecting those rules of Democracy.
That is why people are so angry at the court, because the courts are supposed to SUPPORT democracy not destroy it by supporting and protecting aliens who do not respect the rule of law.
To put this in perspective, there has never actually been a philosopher who succeeded in protecting a Democracy that was in its final throes of termination. Never once since Plato came up with the solution to the downfall of Democracy, never ever.
See? We are fighting with our backs against the wall, the populace is so angry with the system, that they prefer a tyranny. And then we will lose our Democratic systems.
So, what I propose as a tool and as a purpose of the new human rights council, is a realistic, honest approach to the cliff of disaster we are veering above, and then do everything in the councils power to PROTECT the nations and peoples who are in harms way.
Because otherwise we will have failed that sacred mission that was given to us, by the buoyant revolutionaries 240 years ago. To be the guardian of Democracy.
G-d bless the will to be honest and sincere about the problems that are in the current democratic societies.
There is a lot of discussion concerning Social media and the theft of data.
Honestly, I like social media, I grew up with a Commodore 64, and I really digged all the ideals of open source and computernetworks, realizing an open world.
This is about peace, the more we talk with each other, the less we fight.
It goes all the way back to Niels Bohr, who is the founding father of the open source community.
Lately though the computer community has run into problems, due to problems with all the interests of the world. We have become the main media.
That was the goal right? So how do we then grow up and be mature about it.
Because all that power makes other people of power nervous. I understand, same with me, if I do not worry about the consequences of my actions, then people tend to die and things go awry.
That is why, I believe, that we should have a look at the basic ideals that we are fighting for. We are fighting for an open, democratic world. A world where dialogue and communication brings understanding between people. So that we stop demonizing people we do not know.
There are powergames, and we cannot do anything about that, only get them over with as fast as possible.
But the interconnectedness that we have created in the computer industry is there to make peace.
So, that is the aim.
We have to be honest, respect the sanctity of the individual and never ever censure any ideas or meanings people have. Because it is much better that people get a possibility to share their ideas or frustration rather than they go violent.
Freedom of speech is there as a ventilation of society.
G-d bless the will to be free and open.
I have thought a lot about the current crisis within academia. To my mind, it is essentially a problem of too much diversification.
According to Plato, the aim of knowledge is to unify. To him academia (that is the garden where Plato taught originally) is to unify knowledge. Hence the term Universtity.
To him, heaven is a place where we are all unified, and consequently the same must be the aim of learning here on earth. In Epinomis the Platonic dialogue, this is his point.
He discusses geometry and mathematics, as he claims that these are some of the core scientific subjects.
I agree with Plato, instead of burying ourselves into our own subject, we need the cross breeders to have more space.
How do we do that? Well to be absolutely honest, I believe we should stop all scientific discussion right now, and then all read Plato.
Go back to that original academic point of departure, and then accord our ideas into the ideas of Plato.
Let him be the guiding star of a new academic development.
G-d bless the will to be academic again.
There has been a lot of discussion on the topic of my philosophy. Right now it actually hits home the deepest in the Eastern European countries, where the Christian-democratic society is really thriving.
Well, one could say, as some have, that it is racist and this and that. But essentially it is not that, it is simply the design made by Aristotle. According to him a Democracy is pinned on a base of well functioning families.
So it is more a combination of religion and democratic theories that has made the theory that I have made.
But at the end of the day, these are not new ideas, these are ideas faithfully delivered to the Eastern European countries directly from Aristotle. Honestly, that is the most sacred and high quality source you can get, only rivaled by Plato.
The beautiful thing about it is furthermore, that is works.
As a philosopher, you have ideas and thoughts, but usually you do not see in your lifetime whether your ideas work. But to my great appreciation my ideas really work.
So instead of the European Union going amok with the Eastern European countries, then learn, Change, adapt to the new reality and ideas.
Fascism stems from ideas that do not work. What happens is, that the believers in the ideas that do not work start forcing these ideas on the populace. Creating censureship, illiberalism and so on. Good ideas do not have to do this, because the people like these ideas.
That is the light of the nations, to give high quality ideas that suits the nations that needs them.
So Change, see the ideas that I give for the quality they have.
Don’t fight so much to keep the power, invest your lives and political careers into something that people really appreciate.
Central European politics suffers from too poor quality to my mind. At least, when I was in Belgium ten years ago with SIAD, that was my feeling.
Low quality ideas will give you low quality politics, and people will be unsatisfied. High quality will make people happy.
This is not to be condescending. I did not do this to antagonize anyone, but the spread the light to the nations. As all Jews should.
G-d bless the will to do good.
Welcome Mrs. May to Denmark. You have all the love and appreciation from the Danish people towards England.
I know, that you have had a rough two years after the election, and seem very friendless these days, but count on Denmark.
I wanted Denmark to follow Great Britain out of the EU, but it didn’t work. But as the leading intellectual of Denmark, this speaks to the support that you have from us.
I really hope, that you get through all your problems, and you can count on our support all the way.
G-d bless the fair isles of England.
We are heading for a fight in Europe against a certain part of the muslim migrants.
First of all, let me clear about muslims in general. They are people as we are. They have families, they look forward to times of festivities and so on. The dark non-forgiving attitude to muslims in general that has bloomed the last four or five years, is not of my making, and I truly think it is wrong. Muslims are people too.
The conflict we have with the muslim world is, as I see it, a conflict with our Democratic values and institutions.
Our belief in vesting the power with the people, and faith in our laws.
Islamists, as they are called, reject these values and this societal system and wish for a caliphate based on muslim law. AKA sharia.
You can be democratic and muslim at the same time, no problem. But you cannot wish for a muslim political system and then have a right to vote in a Democratic country.
This is real. The democratic rights have been taken away from most voters in Turkey, and had Mr. Al-Sisi not won the Arab spring in Egypt, things would have gone awry there too.
In Europe, we have the same problem with what we call islamists. Recently France had terrible occurrence of these issues, with a valiant police officer sacrificing himself for the sake of poor hostages.
So in Europe, these problems are abundant.
Essentially we have a war between Islamism and Democracy being waged in all of Europe, and only Denmark and France has awoken to this threat.
So, what do we do? We find out who the islamists are, their schools, their madrassas and mosques, and we close them down, and remigrate all who are members of said Islamist infrastructure.
Again this seems harsh, but remember the threat of nazism, and how it infiltrated and in the took over Democracy? It is very much same, Democracy must defend itself from political systems that wants to tear down the democratic order.
We have come pretty far in Denmark, but we need to go further to protect our laws and our Democracies.
We have seen it in the maws of the Islamic State, the rape the torture, the arrogance towards human rights.
This will not do, and we need to wake up in Europe, and fight the bastards.
G-d bless the will to see things as they are.
There are many who wish to change the way we live. Small time intellectuals, great thinkers, the bully down the ally and so on.
But true Change will only happen very rarely, and I believe, that it will only happen, if the people who do these things have wisdom.
Now wisdom is an archaic word, and perhaps it is too old in a sense. But nonetheless I belive, that that is what we have lost over the last century.
What is wisdom? According to Plato (Epinomis) wisdom is the knowledge of the good. But a knowledge that is based on the understanding of spirit.
It is a kind of triangulation. Wisdom prerequisites knowledge of good, knowledge of G-d and this synthesis gives you wisdom.
I can see it in many of my predecessors, Marx one of them, he did not have knowledge of G-d, and consequently, his theories were often bereft of true goodness. He did not have the drive towards good and humanity in his ideas.
He also did not heed the wisdom of Lycurgus, whom he owed his ideas of Sparta. According to Lycurgus, as spartan society should be absolutely closed to work. He theorized the opposite, and consequently Marxism does not work.
True wisdom today is therefor, to really understand what is up and down in theory, knowing where it comes from, and then choose what is good for people. Having the drive to see the little mans best.
That will give you true Change. It will often tear the social fabric apart, because more often than not, the fabric is based on some unwise ideas. As in some of Marxses less good ideas. But the endresult will be good, if the theories are truly wise.
G-d bless the will to be humble in the face of power.
There is a lot of problems for Russia these days. Russia is accused for all kinds of things, half of them not right. The rest just things that can actually be proved or argued for in a sane manner.
But Russia have become the International scapegoat, because the West is too afraid to point at the real threats. It is bit like in the Byzantine time just before the fall of Constantinople. Even though the Turks were camped right before the gates, the intellectuals kept discussing angels.
It is the same today, the islamists are roaming in most of Europe, and because we are too weak to discuss these problems, we pick on the weaker target. We Jews know aaaall about that.
What do you do in order to use this process constructively. Essentially Russia has nothing to gain in targeting the West. There are no ideological motives, and nothing it could really gain.
I doubt the West will attack Russia directly, because that would not sit well with anyone, and Mr. Trump knows his true enemies anyway, so he will not support it.
But criticism can be used to a good cause, if you see it for what it is. Easy life tends to create abuse and loitering, hard life tends to create progress.
As Michael Psellus say, “Good is scarce”. In other words, the progress that Russia already has had in terms of Christian development can be solidified and developed perhaps along the lines of Michael Psellus an illustrious Byzantine neoplatonic philosopher.
In other words, ethics, virtue and being good is what gives Russia a true renaissance. Thinking about what and how Russian can be good to each other in family life, in communal life, in everywhere where Russians share something, spirit will and can guide them.
G-d bless Mother Russia.
When I started my “career” or whatever you call it as a philosopher, I did it, as all philosophers should in a rebellion against the current order.
My mom and dad were flower power children, and honestly, there were a lot to change.
The cultural marxist ideas that my parents wanted and believed in, were the anathema to my ideas. Where they wanted barren state-control, I wanted national sovereignty. Where they wanted the state to be my family, I wanted my own family.
Do not get me wrong, It is not all of socialism that is wrong, but a lot of the central ideas are.
As time changed, I all of a sudden found myself at the top of the pyramid. I called the shots, and the rebellion that I wanted too soon changed into an elite progress. OK, I loved every second of it, and the Change that Barack and I brought was cherished by most intellectuals and people around the world.
But one place was all not really into my ideas, the European Union. In fact they clung to the first phase of my development, and kept seeing me as a rebel rouser and a threat to the current social order. Well, honestly I were. But I believe that a lot of the European countries around Denmark really failed to see my development.
Anyway, the content of my ideas have always been the same. It is a mid leaning conservatism. I have nothing against animal rights, the care of the nature. I believe feminism has its role to play, and so on.
In Europe however, the first phase of my rebellion kept fighting its way through the fog of war, and has created new beasts as AfD, Front national, Lega Nord and so on. Centre leaning conservatisms with a new angle on politics.
I know that many of these parties are feared in the parliaments around Europe, but if you look at the content of their politics, it is not extreme in any way. The difference is often, that they actually mean what they say, and are not afraid of talking the talk, and walking the walk.
But, with myself, I see that my ideas are actually accepted by most, and I hope, that the CONTENT of these ideas are recognized. They are the best we have; human rights, democracy, the rule of law, respect for the individual.
This is why I see, that the path I have put out, WILL change Europe. It may come from above or below, but it will come.
As a parent with both a stick and a carrot, I will Change Europe.
So please, stop the misery, and have a look at the CONTENT of the ideas I have presented. There are new enemies, like the islamists, and new friends, like Israel. But seriously, what would you want the most, being friends with the most illustrious nation of the world or friends with child rapists. The logical choice is pretty obvious.
So, please have a look at what I am actually saying, and judge me on that.
G-d bless the wisdom of the ancients, realized once again in our time.
In Europe, and with the European Union, there seems to be an essential why that has never been asked, and why is that?
That is because we have gone from a dark intellectual period of post this and post that. Communism stopped functioning, liberalism seemed to be at its last leg, conservatism was over. Everything that made any sense politically was over.
So it is absolutely impossible to build anything of real value or virtue on intellectual ideas that are empty.
But now, things have gone 180 degrees around, and we are living in a renaissance. Democracy is fought for again, liberalism is vivid, our religion is actually clawing its way out of the misery it was in, and even socialism finds new paths.
That is the difference. We are actually living in the Danish Renaissance.
I have done extensive research on the other renaissances that were before this one. Actually I have realized, to my great joy, that there was a Byzantine renaissance in the year 1000 that I did not know anything about. That is really the missing link between the Italian renaissance of Leonardo da Vinci and Machiavelli and the Roman Empire.
After that we had the French Renaissance and now the Danish renaissance.
Essentially it is a rebirth of Plato and the ideas around the city of Athens.
Compared to the other renaissance philosophers, my advantage is, that I have much more easy acces to hidden scripture due to the internet, so this makes this renaissance different than the others. It is a bit deeper.
Hopefully we will acces a time of great evolution in Europe and our children, that will, eventually drive our rebirth as a continent.
G-d bless the will of the ancients.
I have been trying to give the European Union some more thought. It has come to my realisation, that the European Union has some of the same problems as the Eastern Roman empire, the Byzantine realm.
Excessive Bureaucracy, opaque powerhandling and a much too liberal view of the world.
The neoplatonist writer Michael Psellus writes and analyses the faults of the Byzantine empire, and we can use his ideas and reflections in the understanding of today.
Essentially Michael Psellus points to the fact, that Zoe, the empress and nemesis of the Byzantine empire was too liberal.
It reflects the idea of Plato, that the backside of Democratic coin is too much liberalism. When things get so free, that everything gets annoying, even the animals gets annoying.
In other words, the balance between law and freedom, responsibility and freedom order and freedom tilts too much in the favour of freedom, and this brings ruin.
The remedy of cause will be to bring in order in the right places.
One place I would start, would be to reform the administration as such, cut down on all the liberal practises of money squandering. Reel in the costs, make a simple but realistic budget. Stop all the corruption there.
Secondly, and this is where i believe that Michael Psellus really has some wisdom to share. He says, that the philosopher say, that superficiality and vainness is abhorred by the philosophers, what philosophers respect is when one think about the needs of the nature of things. It goes like this.
“Philosophers will tell you that the vain and superfluous are of all things on earth the most despicable. For them the object of life is to understand those things that are necessary to their nature. All else is regarded as merely so many external attributes.”
― from “Fourteen Byzantine Rulers: The Chronographia of Michael Psellus (Classics)”
In other words, what we need is Eudaimonia, or rather good spirit. The central idea of the Aristotelian work the Nichomacean Ethics.
What is Eudaimonia? It is the right values to support the nature of each nation in Europe.
In other words, we need to figure out the nature of each nation, and then the values that that nature requires.
In the US it is pretty obvious, it is essentially a protestant democratic country, and therefor the virtues of that country are the virtues of democracy and protestantism.
But with the rest of Europe, it is not so clean cut.
But instead of integration that the EU has used as its guiding motor, it should use Eudaimonia as its guiding idea. Trying to figure out, how it can support the virtues of each country that is in its system.
Then the process of destruction can be reversed, and each country can be happy in itself.
The first step should be pretty obvious for the EU, you have to figure out a way to remigrate all the migrants that have no business in Europe, in a nice and humane way off course, but it needs to be done, because the security of the European countries is not working.
Then you need to accept borders. Because that works as a detriment to the migrants.
Europe is not about borders or control, it is about a continent that needs to bloom and be happy. Eudaominia.
Go for that goal, and you will survive.
G-d bless the humility of a civil servant.
When looking at Germany, I see a great promise, and the danger of complete ruin.
If Germany is succesful in regaining control of public opinion. Or rather is in harmony with what the people wants, it may thrive and grow, if not, and that is a very obvious danger, the state will fall, and a revolution will ensure.
Am I right? Have a look at the rest of the West. The US as one of the examples. Putting Trump up as president is a good thing in the sense, that it stops the people from outright revolt.
It seems to me, that the European leaders somehow have forgotten what it is to rule, and the dangers of it.
If you do not listen to the peoples, they will rebel, and that is a very, very dangerous thing the for the elite.
Take the Breivik case. Yes it was a horrible act, but it was an act of public rebellion. It happened, because the people of Norway is against the current mood of the elite.
As simple as that.
Now, let us take an example, that at least the Eastern Europeans might know. The fall of Michael the usurper in the 1000 century in the Eastern Roman Empire.
How did that come to pass? It happened, because the PEOPLE were so reviled by the deeds of the usurper. He did things, that they simply would not accept. Such as sending the true heir, Zoe in exile and cutting her hair off.
It might sound strange today, but the rage of the people is VERY strong thing.
Now in the last forty years, the elite of Europe have had great ideas, and consequently tried to enforce them. Mainly the idea of integrating the European nations into on nation.
This was done with stealth, and done without the consent of the peoples.
For a long time it went quite well, mainly because the peoples, did not know what was going on. It let the european elites into a belief, that the peoples of Europe were accepting the plans, and they were so busy with all their plans, that they forgot the peoples wishes.
Now, as it happens, eventually the peoples realized what was going on, and they abhor the very idea of loosing their beloved nations, especially because the unwise decisions of migrating vast hordes of unskilled and uneducated peoples of the third world into Europe somehow ALSO seemed like a good idea at the time.
Well, this has proven wrong, and we are now living in the hangover of the great experiment of Delors.
We, the children, are left to try and salvage some kind of future in the grasp of radical islam, a mass loss of production capability, new enemies in and around us, mass rapes and so on and so forth. Thank you very much Jaques Delors.
Anyway, there is hope, but it is very slim.
The hope is, that the elite will finally wake up the the needs of the people, and start listening to what their needs are.
If not, they will rebel, that is always what happens, when an elite is too far away in their own world, and think that peoples can just eat cakes if they have no bread. Or just put up security windows, when the entire country is having a mass theft of goods due to the open borders.
You cannot despise the needs of the people for very long and live as a political entity. Look at history, and that will tell you so.
The example of Michael and Zoe is one, the example of the Russian and the French Revolution is another.
Now, mr. Barack Obama is his wisdom saw this, and he took me under his wings.
To be honest, I started out as a revolutionary philosopher. The heirs to the first phase of my development is still here, led by mr. Steve Bannon.
Anyway, getting a little older and perhaps wiser, I have started to support the elite. I believe, that if the elite is persuaded to listen to the people, we can avert a revolution.
Maybe I am wrong, maybe I am right.
But IF we can make the elite see, that the massmigration and open border policy is at the direct detriment of the peoples of Europe, we can perhaps work together.
The first step is to reinstate the power of the Nations, and get rid of the corrupt EU bureaucracy. Not totally, there are things that the Eurocrats can work on, like regulating the fisheries and so on.
But the true power must rest with the people.
There is a storm brewing in the horizon, not to see it, is folly. The European elite has a choice to side with the people and fight the islamists of Erdogan and the Muslim Brothers, or go against them.
In Denmark we are siding with the people, we have just made major reform fighting said enemy. It makes the people rest.
So, instead of fighting the people, side with them in their sincere need of protection and safety.
The chaos that the EU has brought us so far, is not the path. The path is peaceful cooperation between sovereign nations.
Erdogan is quite open about his intentions with Greece. It is in high time, that we side with Greece in their calamity, and start raising our own armies to counter the islamists, and IS that has again reared its ugly head in France.
This is not a religious fight it is a fight for our freedom, against an intolerable enemy, who likes to rape women. That is the base of their moral conduct, and by the honor of our own daughters, we will fight.
G-d bless the will to find peace amongst us all.
It is with the highest honour, that M. Arnaud Beltrame has sacrificed his life, in the line of duty.
Seldom do we see such bravery and selfsacrifise. Going in, and taking the place of a hostage is indeed a very courageous thing. It is a true wonder, that such personnel exists today
It is through the courage of such a man, that France will survive. It is through the example of such a man, that France will be judged by the compatriots around in Europe.
The battle against IS is not over, in fact it has just begun in Europe, and we will not budge!!!
G-b bless the memory of Arnaud Beltrame.