Canadian blogger David Warren who is recovering from heart surgery has a short post, mentioning that he is reading the classic Kim, and also the book Essays in Idleness, link2 by the Buddhist monk Kendo. Which is of course the name of his blog.
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if you want to be depressed, read Michael Yon's reports of refugees at the Darien Gap, a dangerous area in Panama that is being transversed by those hearing the US border is open and deciding to risk their life to get there before they decide to close the border.
.........one of the least reported stories about Rwanda is the reconciliation program (includes video). Background of the genocide can be found here.
another video here discussing the need to forgive. Caution: uses the G word (God), so not PC for the elites who run Google and blogger.
The conflict was tribal not religious in origin. and like Yugoslavia, there were visions of the Virgin Mary a couple years before it happened, with the Virgin warning of the need to reconcile with each other or war would break out.
Imaculee has several books about her hiding from that holocaust that could have been stopped by the west but Clinton and the UN/European powers, even the local UN "peacekeepers" decided not to intervene.
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Nothing new here of course, as posts on strategy Page about Somalia, Nigeria, and the DRC/Central Africa relate. Sigh.
It would be easy to blame all these wars on failed colonialism (Which it is) but a lot of the tribal conflicts predate the European landgrab of Africa. And now one wonders if China will be able to do a better job in developing stealing African mineral and agricultural resources than the Europeans.
China is already moving military assets there to protect their people. and have propaganda films to teach you they will protect their people there:
my take? The US should stay out: the Europeans may not have "broken"the continent, whose tribal wars predate European imperialist takeover, but they made it worse and stole millions of dollars of assets, so maybe they should stay and help fix it.
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as for China: They are pushing into Philippine territory and just laugh and threaten to fight if the Philippine objects or tries to defend our fishermen that have fished there for centuries.
Sigh.
In the meanwhile, the Philippines is busy with trying to give out the vaccine, despite anti vax propaganda (much of it encouraged by China and Russia) that makes a lot of people afraid of taking it.
Lots of propaganda articles out there how China successfully controlled the virus with fewer deaths (80 thousand according to one official report), and they are using this to manipulate the news about India's latest outbreak. Yet one does wonder: Their vaccine only protects 50 percent of those who get it. So one wonders exactly how many cases are there in the past and even now. Presumably we will find out the truth about the 40 million covid deaths there in a decade or so.
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