Friday 23 July 2021

New World Order


 15 August 2023

"BREAKING: “Russia will support any country that wants to defend its national interests against the West.” - Vladmir Putin. IN a cable message to the participants of the Army 2023 forum, Russian president, Vladmir Putin said that Moscow is open to equal defense cooperation with all nations that seek to protect their interests. His exact words: “Russia is open to deepening equal technological partnership and defense cooperation with other countries, i.e with all those who seek to protect their national interests and independent development path, and believe it is vital to make joint efforts to building a system of equality and indivisible security that would reliably protect every country,” reported Tass. He stressed that Russia is determined to actively work on existing cooperative ties and also to create new relations based on its many years of successful experience in mutually beneficial partnerships So, basically, what Vlad is saying is, if there are countries out there that feel their national interests are threatened and that they’re being cheated or have been cheated for ages with very bad deals, that Russia isn’t just ready to enter into defense cooperation/partnerships with you to defend your nations militarily, if need be, but that Russia is also more than able and available to do business with you as equal partners in a way you don’t feel cheated or given the short end of the stick always, but in a way that you stand to benefit greatly - for nation and citizens. This was a clear reference to colonial Europe’s crumbling relationship with African countries and those concerned got the message clearly. This goes further to explain the ease with which Russian partnership/cooperation was secured in defense of Mali, Burkina Faso, Central African Republic, and now Niger. Makes sense why Niger isn’t moved by threats. Can’t wait to do a video on the Unipolar/Multipolar dichotomy, so Africans can appreciate these historic events now unfolding before our eyes." https://twitter.com/jcokechukwu/status/1691105627538354176


“In Xi’s vision, a unified and resurgent China would be on par with or would surpass the United States.” And, in contrast to the imperfect but indisputably liberal foundation of the post–World War II system, Xi’s order is built on institutions, laws, and technologies that “reinforce state control, limit individual freedoms, and constrain open markets.”

17 November 2021

Comparison between Russia and China - Both are communist countries but are different. The difference is explained by Study IQ education. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzlgLWpvPUM  

20 October 2021 

Do we need borders? What is the difference between refugees and immigrants? BBC reports. People discuss the issue but do not conceptualize the Indian way of living in a multi-ethnic and language and economic system. Consider the development of Bihar / West Bengal and Punjab, Maharashtra, Gujrat, Kerala, Tamilnadu etc.

The Global Philosopher: Should borders matter? BBC News - YouTube


11 October 2021 Historical Memory

I wrote on historical memory in my media course. "Should historical memories be erased to achieve and maintain peace? In other words, should victims forgive people, peoples, and groups for the atrocities committed?
"The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; wise forgive but do not forget (Szasz, 1974, p.51)." I add: “to be wiser and maintain peace for the next generations alter historical memories of all nations, cultures, and religions”. Can media and internet alter historical memories? ". I shall upload my writing on my website soon and add a link here.
Listen to the discussions of Vikram Sampath, Shashi Tharoor, and Aaj Tak coordinator Rajdeep Sardesai. Shashi Tharoor and Rajdeep belong and grown up during Nehru congress time, and Vikram Sampath is talking only as a historian. Shashi Tharoor is a politician and member of parliament representing Congress ideology. Rajdeep says history talk cannot evade politics. Vikram argues that history should be open and should not be modified and let readers decide what is right and wrong.

https://www.facebook.com/Vedicteacher/posts/4610447435701564

Democracy 

This book talks about democracy in India. I do not agree. But one can learn a new language to talk about emotions. Some quotes are added Seema Chisti reviews this book. Enclosed are some highlights to understand and read in detail. [Harsh and dark phrases are usually deployed to signal the end of democracy, but Debasish Roy Chowdhury and John Keane refreshingly use history, marshal facts and weave a complex and compelling narrative on why India’s democracy stands at a dangerous crossroads.]

[Roy and Keane invoke Periyar’s worldview, of the essence of democracy being equality and freedom for each of its members. It is not limited to elections where “bread and fish” secure votes and sap the system of its essence. A “well-functioning democracy requires a special kind of social life. Democracy is freedom from hunger, humiliation and violence... It’s freedom from fear and the right not to be killed. It’s equal access to decent medical care and sympathy for those who have fallen behind. Democracy is a learned sense of worldly wonder. It’s the everyday ability to handle unexpected situations wisely. It’s the rejection of the dogma that things can’t be changed because they’re ‘naturally’ fixed in stone.”]

This is not too far from Dr. Ambedkar’s warning in an interview to the BBC in 1953 that the authors quote. Frustrated by opposition to his plans to reform Hindu personal laws, he did not think much of the chances of Indian democracy surviving “for the simple reason that we have got a social structure which is totally incompatible with parliamentary democracy.”

[Keane’s The New Despotism on ills plaguing several democracies including India was valuable in understanding the contemporary crises, where he argued that elections and popular will were being used to conjure up support for despotic and authoritarian rule. This, he argued, was not just an imposition. A significant section of the population was willingly supporting the despot.]

[Democracy is ultimately “insubordination: the refusal to put up with everyday forms of snobbery and toad-eating, idolatry and lying, bullshit and bullying.” The problem that the reader is left with is, can this be done in the absence of social democracy? As the authors conclude, “if despotism replaces democracy then this isn’t because despotic power is somehow inevitable, but because citizens allow it to happen.” Citizens will have to be the proverbial Atticus Finch to prevent the killing of India’s democracy.]

https://www.thehindu.com/books/books-reviews/to-kill-a-democracy-indias-passage-to-despotism-review-at-a-dangerous-crossroad/article36893764.ece

14 September 2021 - Terrorism

Joanna Walters and Alvin Chang - 8 September 2021 in Guardian reports. Some how report does not inform why increase in right wing terror is proportional to jihadist terror attacks. Authors gave detailed report of terror attacks for both the groups. It is worth reading.

"Its report concluded that far-right extremists killed 114 people spanning more than three dozen violent attacks, while US-based individuals it terms “jihadists” killed 107 people across 14 attacks.

New America considered far-right domestic terrorism to consist of anti-government, militia-related, white supremacist, and anti-abortion violent threats and acts. The thinktank outlined domestic “jihadism” as those espousing versions of the late Osama bin Laden’s ideology aiming at global war to establish theocratic fundamentalist-Islamic regimes, and influenced but not funded or trained by overseas terrorist groups.

The report said: “Far from being foreign infiltrators, the large majority of jihadist terrorists in the United States have been American citizens or legal residents” including those involved in “every lethal attack except one” since 9/11."

Far-right terror poses bigger threat to US than Islamist extremism post-9/11 | US news | The Guardian

I am interested in creating a welfare world. Scandinavia, Europe, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand states have welfare systems of different types. All states must provide free education, free medical aid, and comfortable housing to all citizens of the welfare world. 

वसुधैव कुटुम्बकम and सर्वे भवन्तु सुखिनाः (the world is our family and all should be healthy, happy and comfortable). I found that there is no suitable word in English for Sukhi hona. 




How can we unite the people of the world? I am still discussing this with political leaders and academics. 


I am convinced that democracy is the reasonable and rational method to govern humanity. Non-violence is an essential tool to achieve democracy in non-democratic countries.


I believe that we all are human beings. All can not be educated, rich, healthy, happy, and comfortable. Some shall always be saints, altruistic, innovative, selfish, criminals, and creative. We act as per our destiny, which is governed by planets. Democracy and liberalism are the goals of civilized society. I agree with John Rawls that some are rogue states. Human rights are as important as human duties.

All religions preach methods to live happily. We shall teach humanity methods to eliminate the identity of religion, gender, territory, and color.

War causes genocide, mass killing, migration, hunger, rape, in other words, suffering to humanity. My dissertation aims to achieve and maintain peace, for peace provides sustainable growth, prosperity, and happiness. If we follow John Rawls's veil of ignorance and ask people of the world, I am sure that all may like to live in peace and prosperity.

But the question is how to achieve peace for the people of the world, who are 9 billion in number with different cultures, colors, races, and goals. Some are rich, educated, cooperative, generous, hardworking, nonviolent, democratic, and others are selfish, illiterate, jealous, power-hungry, rogue, and believe political power comes out of the barrel of a gun or with modern technology and weapons of mass destruction. Asymmetric war and hidden greed of war industries are tearing all boundaries of nation-states. Due to this conflicting nature, humanity lost 865 million fellow human beings from 1945 to 1990.

Nothing can be achieved individually. There should be teamwork and organization. It involves politics. Administrative reforms can tackle these politics and small conflicts. But what about the personality clash between state leaders and the power politics of corrupt political leaders in the states. The Westphalian system, league of nations, and United Nations failed to bring peace and prosperity to humankind. In Afghanistan United Nations, the British, Russia, the US with European powers could not bring peace and democracy. What should be the solution under new world conditions?

James Madison rightly said, “If men were angels, no government would be necessary.”

As of today, we all are dependent on each other. The world has shrunk to a small family. Information travels faster than light and in many directions.The world is spending a lot of money to maintain the sanctity of national boundaries. But states are independent. The environment is degrading. United Nations failed in managing sustainable industrial and population growth. Urbanization is causing social problems. Fear of nuclear war by AI Robots and Thucydides' phenomena may cause a conflict of unheard damage to humanity.

That is why it is essential to study the governing political methods adopted by India, China, and Europe. I shall research the governance structure adopted by MNCs. My dissertation shall explain, should humanity adopt a Unipolar, bipolar or multipolar world? Are[JD1]  there any peaceful methods to achieve a unipolar world? Even if we achieve peace, how long can we maintain that peace? I hope my dissertation shall answer the said questions. One should think beyond and create a new political system for a new welfare world for the next generation.

The author is a graduate of political science from the University of Auckland. He is Diplom-Ingenieur in Food Technology from Technical University, West Berlin; Chartered Mechanical Engineer from India, and Bachelor of Science from Agra University of India. He has worked as chief executive in many breweries in India. He has forty years of experience in many management fields like administration, technical, production, sales, marketing, human resources, and liaison with state and central ministers of India. After retirement, I am studying how we can bring peace to humanity. [I am writing a dissertation on "theoretical and empirical comparative analysis of the potential benefits of the multipolar and unipolar systems for the world peace]."

                      Jaipal Singh Datta at Sankat Mochan Temple in Simla, Himachal Pradesh, India.

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