The Prosperity, stability and power of the United States and indeed the West survives on it being an empire. That empire is now devouring itself. After destroying many. Trump's ways may dismantle this colonial behemoth. Will United States survive as a country, when it is no longer an empire?
When rage is combined with religious and ideological absolutism, avenues of freedoms vanish. Dissent is met with ruthless subjugation and every atrocity is covered up by ambivalence. Let's deep dive.
My India journey started with Mahakumbh, followed by a conference on geopolitics. The world is changing, and we need to focus on the motivations behind these changes.
There was a time when the Greek Culture was at its peak and brought a lot of great ideas and philosophies. But all that was destroyed over the years and Abrahamic belief systems over-powered its existence. Specifically Christianity. A Pew Research Center poll revealed the strong chauvinism of the Greeks.
Do you think your culture is superior to that of people elsewhere? Across Europe, that question is answered with a remarkable degree of variation. In eight of the 33 countries recently surveyed by the Pew Research Center, at least two-thirds of the respondents said they believe their culture is superior to those of other nations. All eight are in Eastern Europe. Here are the top 10 countries and their scores in Europe.
Greece 89%
Russia, Bulgaria 69%
Norway 58%
Poland 55%
Italy, Austria, Portugal 47%
UK, Hungary 46%
Germany 45%
France 36%
Sweden 26%
Spain 20%
What is also significant is that Greeks believe that “being a Christian is very important for being truly Greek.” And, 76% Greeks believe in that idea.
Chauvinism in case of Greece is accompanied by a complete disregard and amnesia of its past. The pride that Greeks have in their culture, a product of their past, is completely contrary to the actual facts that caused its decline in the first place. That they pride in their Greek culture which was exterminated by Christianity, while believing that Christianity is at the heart of being Greek, is indeed a remarkable story of Stockholm Syndrome.
Europe is facing an existential crisis. Partly manufactured and partly beyond its bounds. It is responding with the familiar formula of handing its future to the Military Industrial Complex that thrives of wars.
Violent Riots by Refugees consumed France and cities in Belgium and Switzerland. While these countries battled refugees destroying their societies, Poland and Hungary are battling legal and financial measures by EU for not accepting these refugees to begin with. How do you make sense of all this?
Masochistic sanctions on Russia, impending destruction of industries, falling productive populations, and immigrant crisis. Europe is not facing doom, it is hurtling ever faster off the cliff!