“In questions of power then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution.” – Thomas Jefferson

This is a recording of an epic live discussion of power versus prosperity by John Mearsheimer and Jeffrey Sachs. Do not miss it.

If this video disappears, please let me know.

Bud’s opinion: Occam’s razor With respect Dr. Sachs, there is no evidence that Hamas, or Hezbollah, or Iran will stop attacking Israel. There is abundance evidence the attacks will continue regardless the appeasement offered by Israel.

There is no punishment by so-called “international law” against the hundreds of thousands of attacks against Israel, over 10,000 rockets launched against Israel just since October 7, 2023. Instead, international agencies as well as nations including the U.S., E.U., etc. continue to fund and supply the attackers. Some countries also supply Israel.

Based on the words and actions of Hamas, PLO, Hezbollah and Iran, even if the people of Israel walked away from the entire land of Israel and Palestine and moved somewhere else, the most probable (near certain) scenario is that Hamas, PLO, Hezbollah and Iran, the Muslim Brotherhood, Wahabis, etc will pursue and continue killing Jewish people wherever they go.

Here is a short video by a Hamas commander explaining that this is not about Palestine, but about eliminating Jews and Christians from the earth.

Occam’s razor: this war is not about a piece of real estate or holy lands. This war is driven by the belief of Muslims that they are duty bound to eliminate Jews and in fact eliminate all who do not convert to Islam or become slaves (dhimmi); Islam has held that belief and executed people upon that belief including their own family members since it was formed. There has been no reformation on that part of their belief. In fact, as you will see in the Islamic document below, some believe the coming period will be the most savage in their history. Occam’s razor says Muslims will continue doing what they preach and continue what they have been doing for over 1000 years.

Professors Mearsheimer and Sachs ignore the elephant in the room. These esteemed professors mentioned India a few times, but never mentioned the largest, most severe and longest genocide in history by far which was the Muslim-conducted genocide of non-Muslims in India. Hindi, Buddhists, Sikh, animists, non-religious people were all eliminated proudly by the method taught supposedly by Muhammad and reported back to the caliphate by the generals of Islam’s armies. Mountains of bones of dead Indians.

“The genocide suffered by the Hindus of India at the hands of Arab, Turkish, Mughal and Afghan occupying forces for a period of 800 years is as yet formally unrecognized by the World.“

“The only similar genocide in the recent past was that of the Jewish people at the hands of the Nazis.”

“The holocaust of the Hindus in India was of even greater proportions, the only difference was that it continued for 800 years, till the brutal regimes were effectively overpowered in a life and death struggle by the Sikhs in the Panjab and the Hindu Maratha armies in other parts of India in the late 1700’s.”

“We have elaborate literary evidence of the World’s biggest holocaust from existing historical contemporary eyewitness accounts. The historians and biographers of the invading armies and subsequent rulers of India have left quite detailed records of the atrocities they committed in their day-to-day encounters with India’s Hindus.”

“These contemporary records boasted about and glorified the crimes that were committed – and the genocide of tens of millions of Hindus, mass rapes of Hindu women and the destruction of thousands of ancient Hindu / Buddhist temples and libraries have been well documented and provide solid proof of the World’s biggest holocaust.” https://www.sanskritimagazine.com/islamic-india-biggest-holocaust-world-history-whitewashed-history-books/

BUD: IMHO, the most likely nuclear war scenario will be between China’s CCP and Islam; subjects living under these tyrannies will be spectators and cannon fodder in the war launched by their dictatorial oligarchies. Likely, this will also be our outcome as citizens of democracies everywhere. I doubt it is possible to avoid the winter of a nuclear war, even if the U.S. managed to stay out of it. China’s CCP and Islam are both sworn to dominate the entire earth, which will lead to nuclear war. Both believe such is their destiny, and they are prepared to die as martyrs in their cause. The following booklet by an Islamic guru (translated to English) is followed by a translated video speech given by Chinese General Chi Haotian to his people…both anticipate giant wars and their eventual world dominance.

“CHINA WILL ATTACK AMERICA” by HON. BOB SCHAFFER of Colorado in the House of Representatives. Thursday, November 14, 2002.
[[Page 22783]] [Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 148 (2002), Part 17]
[Extensions of Remarks]. [Pages 22782-22784]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CRECB-2002-pt17/html/CRECB-2002-pt17-Pg22782-4.htm

“As mentioned in my previous remarks, in December 1999 China’s Defense Minister, General Chi Haotian, declared war “is inevitable” between China and the United States. He noted, “The issue is that the Chinese armed forces must control the initiative in this war.” Outlined in my remarks were considerations for the United States in recognizing China’s threat and our ability to control initiative during battle.”

The leaked speech General Haotian excerpted above briefly in the official U.S. Congressional Record by U.S. Congressman Schaeffer is read in English and analyzed section by section in the video below by Seth Holehouse. Attributed to General Chi Haotian (retired), the speech raises concerns about China’s military strategy and potential conflict with the United States. Haotian views CCP attack on the U.S. as inevitable. Its authenticity and credibility are disputed by some, but it was openly published in China.  General Chi Haotian was born in 1929 and served as Minister of National Defense from 1993 to 2003. He was also a Politburo member and held various senior positions within the Chinese People’s Liberation Army. His military career spanned multiple decades, including the Chinese Civil War and the Korean War.

The entire speech by General Haotian is here if you prefer reading. It is alarming: https://jrnyquist.blog/2019/09/11/the-secret-speech-of-general-chi-haotian/

If you have read and followed this far, you probably have surmised that I agree with Professor Mearsheimer and not Professor Sachs. However, I disagree with Mearsheimer about his claim that no one is looking over America’s shoulder or above America to moderate its hegemonic power. God is doing that. I do not imply that God intends or supports America’s hegemony.

Dr. Mearsheimer, there can be more than one. There can be more than one hegemon, maybe more than three. Look at major industries. Exxon-Mobil and Saudi-Aramco. Toyota and Ford. Microsoft and Apple. But rules and agreements for fair competition do not apply when the competitors (i.e., the hegemon contenders) do not agree – agree in fact not only in words – agree to not attempt to exterminate their competitor. Is not this failure to agree in fact the existential problem on the global chessboard? Perhaps, Dr. Mearsheimer explains this is his books.

There are many places where Jeffrey Sachs is, ‘blame America first.’ He has been that way for years. For example, Sachs repeats the tired, disproven mantra of leftists that Colin Powell lied at the UN about Saddam Hussein’s possession of WMD. The U.S. government and other governments knew Saddam Hussein had WMD because those governments supplied the WMD, and those governments learned to regret doing so and finally took action against Saddam. Sachs repeats the long-disproven claim that there were no WMD in Iraq. The U.S. State Department, Presidents, Pentagon, intel agencies, Rochester University all knew that the U.S. sent WMD, bioweapons and chemical weapons, to Saddam Hussein during Iraq’s war with Iran. Other western nations knew also since they equipped Iraq with various other WMD, bunkers and pre-cursors to weapons. The Soviet Union equipped Iraq with a nuclear reactor and chemical and bio weapons. The Russia-supplied reactor was blown up by Israeli jets before the Gulf War. Early in 2003, before the U.S. and allies invaded Iraq in 2003, war materials sent by Russia were removed from Iraq to next door Syria in caravans of trucks guarded by Spetsnaz Russian special forces, seen in the photo below. How do we know that? Several confirming sources. A U.S. Assistant Secretary of Defense held a live press conference days before the U.S. invasion showing aerial photos (including the one below) of long lines of heavily guarded trucks exiting Iraqi bases, guarded and trucked by Russian special forces.

Those Russian Spetsnaz special forces and Russian generals moved weapons out of Iraq and then returned to Moscow to proudly receive awards and announcements in Russian news of their successful Iraqi mission.

When U.S. and allied forces arrived in Iraq, old and new biological and chemical weapons and delivery systems were discovered in Iraq and destroyed. Some allied troops were injured by these WMD that were said to not exist. Yet still today Jeffrey Sachs and others claim WMD did not exist. Today, Jeffrey Sachs would have you believe that China’s CCP has no plans for world domination. Sachs is well spoken, but not believable.

“I have reputable sources where generals say yes, we gave Iraq weapons-specific biological agents and we knew what we were doing, figuring they were going to use it against Iran. But then they were prepared to use it against us. Now when we blew up some of these factories to do this, it spewed all this stuff in the air and some of our people over there also inhaled this. So you have the vaccine, you have the particles of this stuff in the air, you have chemical weapons in the air, you have depleted uranium. And as I said today 50,000 people suffering from Gulf War Syndrome and it is slowly moving into the population. I have not seen any recent studies on it that there are cases of it being conveyed to immediate family relatives, and health care workers, which indicates a biological agent at work.” ~ Faculty Lecture on Bio / Warfare / Terrorism / Weapons. Francis A. Boyle. Professor of International Law. 18 April 2002, University of Illinois.

About a year later, “The US-led coalition invaded Iraq on March 20, 2003, marking the beginning of the Iraq War.” Wikipedia. 

U.S. law compelling the U.S. President to implement regime change in Iraq was passed by Congress and signed by then President Bill Clinton. Support for this law was fully bi-partisan and also supported by the UN which had passed repeated ineffectual actions against Saddam’s regime. Any U.S. President elected in 2000 was compelled by US law to regime change in Iraq. Of course Democrats were expecting Al Gore to be elected in 2000. Indeed Al Gore was for war in Iraq before he was against it, just like 99% of Democrats who, after G.W. Bush was elected, proceeded to commit treason by politicizing a war they had voted for. Public Law 105-338 (the “Iraq Liberation Act”) signed into law by Clinton Oct 31, 1998. This is only one of several laws and policies with regard to Iraq which were implemented first in the Clinton administration, even though Democrats and mainstream media try to blame G.W. Bush for this war. It was this Act that was cited as authorization for President Clinton to use U.S. military to enforce a no-fly zone over most of Iraq, which included bombing Iraq, killing Iraqi civilians and military, shooting down planes and helicopters, special forces on the ground and arming and covertly supporting military acts with anti-Saddam forces in-country. It was this Act that was cited as authorization for G.W. Bush in 2002, post 9-11, to remove Saddam Hussein. President G.W. Bush had the opportunity to halt the Iraq invasion before it began when a CIA operative and her CIA officer and a UN Ambassador negotiated Saddam’s complete surrender under very favorable terms for the U.S. Deplorably, President Bush and his administration jailed the CIA operative without due process.

In addition, there were multiple, large contingents of Iraqis who also wanted regime change in Iraq, including the Iraq National Congress, which released the following statement upon Clinton’s signing of the Act, “Saddam is the problem and he cannot be part of any solution in Iraq. Therefore, President Clinton’s action today is the most appropriate response to Saddam. Let him know that Iraqis will rise up to liberate themselves from his totalitarian dictatorship and that the US is ready to help their democratic forces with arms to do so. Only then will the trail of tragedy in Iraq end. Only then will Iraq be free of weapons of mass destruction.”

“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” ~ U.S. President John Adams

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