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When both sides have non-negotiables, issues beyond compromise, the only resort is an incision to contain the deadly cancer, nothing else, otherwise war on an unimaginable scale is as inevitable as the sun rising tomorrow. There is a time when all diplomatic initiatives become hypocrisy, economic sanctions to bring down inferior nations to their knees irrelevant, and street demonstrations facing a vicious army absurd.<\/span><\/p>\n If and when Ukraine is dismembered into east and west, it is a lesser evil than a regional war involving all the powerful kings of the Earth, what the Book of Revelation calls Armageddon<\/em>. Splitting Ukraine means a massive migration of pro-Westerns to the West and pro-Easterns to the East, a smaller price to pay than an ocean of blood. We learn lessons from the birth of Pakistan. There is resistance to this radical solution. Those for unity invite war. Those for dismemberment invite peace. The benefits of dismemberment is ridiculous to the vested interests of non-Ukrainians, pro-east or pro-west, and is ultimately humanly pro-Ukraine.<\/span><\/p>\n Social Karma \u2014 Containing Afghanistan<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Social karma means someone does something really bad, and his friends around him suffer the consequences, not him. In many ways, either he does not care because he is not affected, or he is ignorant of the consequences of his action.<\/span><\/p>\n For a decade now, the U.S. military has been flying thousands of drones in Afghanistan, killing a dozen women and children for every Taliban rebel. They call it \u2018collateral damage\u2019, a technical term for quasi-genocide.<\/span><\/p>\n Enter social karma. Recently, CNN exposed an Internet video of Al Qaeda operatives in Afghanistan forming a mass movement to attack America in any and every way. The video is sending panic across America. Citizens are preparing. NSA is sounding the alert. The Americans are not even doing critical analysis of historical causes and effects. They are saying \u2018who is that guy\u2019, and \u2018we must catch him\u2019. They are blind to the fact that the Pentagon is the social-karma culprit. There is no move to stop the drones or the people sending them, only the terrorists. The plague sweeping across America today is a combination of arrogance and ignorance, which can easily trigger a finger towards the nuclear button. The voices of the anti-American Americans campaigning for sanity are drowned by the hatred for terrorists.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/strong>Enter the Energy Dragon<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n There is only one reason why China is veering away from peace (increased trade relations) towards war (unilateral annexations of nearby marine territories) \u2013 despair for energy, particularly oil. China cannot maintain its economic growth without energy. China is like a 747, a mammoth plane that has to stay afloat or go down in a resounding crash.<\/span><\/p>\n It is hard for a small nation like the Philippines to deal with China, which has been cutting off Philippine imports to suppress protest in the Spratleys. China knows we need them for trade, so they use that against us. China has alarmed our local labor organizations by smuggling tens of thousands of Chinese who work here covertly for Chinese projects of Chinese firms. And because we do not have the death penalty, we attract big-time drug lords to come here, who destroy our society. Yet, they impose the death penalty on small-time Filipino couriers working for their big time drug lords here.<\/span><\/p>\n The only one that the Dragon fears is the Eagle behind us, without which, they would have trampled all over us from the onset. When, one day, they face each other eyeball to eyeball, we are right smack in the middle. <\/span>(<\/span><\/strong>eastwindreplyctr@gmail.com<\/span><\/strong><\/a>)<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When both sides have non-negotiables, issues beyond compromise, the only resort is an incision to contain the deadly cancer, nothing else, otherwise war on an unimaginable scale is as inevitable as the sun rising tomorrow. 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