Might toddling Donnie's — NATO poop-throwing — be of unappreciated value?

13 July 2018

Does lunatic rattling of cages have its "cosmic" place?

In the realm of personal spiritual development falls the idea of crazy wisdom or divine madness.

The gist is that it takes outrageous behavior — from someone in spiritual "authority" — to fuel questioning of what has previously been complacently accepted.

Seemingly lunatic behavior, coming from one's spiritual teacher or guru, shatters students' previously constrained perceptions. Enlightenment or God then shines through.

Might such beneficially crazy-acting behavior come from . . .

. . . a mendacious ignoramus and still perform the same enlightening function?

I suspect so.

But the odds of ignorance-inspired lunacy succeeding (in spiritually enhancing function) would — given its unfocused origin — be much reduced.

Consider President Trump's crazy-acting behavior — with regard to NATO and Germany

During a heated exchange of views, President Trump had the undiplomatic effrontery to call Chancellor Merkel, "you, Angela".

I'm sure the Chancellor cried herself to sleep. As a result, perhaps, Europe will progress from deluded American lapdog to enlightened independence.

If such an arguably saner outcome resulted, President Trump's NATO and EU bashing may have its place in a productive cosmic scheme. Western Europe has, as the President claims, been coasting on American dimes. And (though unmentioned) NATO's hostile expansion to touch Russian Federation borders has been more provocative than peace-aimed.

Confronting both issues insightfully would, one can argue, benefit the planet.

Not that these alternative considerations will motivate much thinking . . .

. . . on either side of the proximate Atlantic.

In truth, NATO fundamentally continues to exist to benefit the Military Industrial Complex. That Devil's Band of Malevolent Parasites directly benefits from instigating conflict, wherever it sets its blood and money-grubbing gaze.

The idea that the world contains actively existential threats to American military dominance is laughable. Yet over and over, American leaders — and the Military Industrial Complex that controls them — make that claim.

On the subject of unnecessary violence

Jonathan Marshall said that:

NATO’s support for reckless U.S. interventions abroad should be considered a bug to be erased, not a feature to boast about.

And that’s without even considering the disastrous fallout from NATO’s mendacious attacks on Libya, which left that country a failed state, drove jihadists into Syria, unleashed terrorism in Western Europe, and produced a tidal wave of refugees that put the future of the Europe Union at risk.

[C]onsider that NATO’s European members are budgeting $286 billion for military spending this year, more than four times as much as Russia.

NATO’s relentless Eastward expansion since 1989, growing from 16 member countries to 29 members—most recently with its accession of Lilliputian Montenegro—violated firm promises made by Western leaders to Russia at the time of Germany’s reunification.

That march to the East was championed by the aptly named Committee to Expand NATO, a hot-bed of neo-conservatives led by Bruce Jackson, then vice president for planning and strategy at Lockheed Martin, the largest U.S. military contractor.

George Kennan, the dean of U.S. diplomats during the Cold War, predicted accurately that NATO’s reckless expansion could only lead to “a new Cold War, probably ending in a hot one, and the end of the effort to achieve a workable democracy in Russia.”

An alliance is worth keeping only to the extent that it reduces threats to its members.

By supporting reckless interventions far from NATO’s home, and by provoking needless confrontations with Russia, the Western alliance fails that test.

The moral? — Ideally . . .

. . . crazy wisdom-like President Trump's hostile blather would prompt strategic rethinking in Europe and the United States.

As I wrote previously:

Burning it all down — in President Trump's egotistical, occasionally insightful ways — may be necessary to making the United States come to terms with the Looting Elites that he often abrasively represents. That his erratic behavior makes America's ossified Deep State uncomfortable is, for example, not all bad.

The President's genius for showmanship and tumult-creation may be serving a staggeringly stagnant United States more beneficially than it appears.

Destroyers generally do not recognize themselves as such. And most of us do not welcome them, even when their appearance is absolutely necessary to our own (personal or cultural) evolution.

Sadly for us, the exercise of wisdom requires recognition of the openings that permit it to shine through.

Predictably, we will miss this opportunity to rethink. Historically we revel in ignoring the obvious. Even at the peril of our national and personal souls.

Inordinate power corrupts completely. Even to the level of accidental gurus. Toddler Donnie's imitation of divine madness will, almost certainly, fall on blind eyes and deaf ears.

A pity. Especially so, because we cannot claim that no one gave us opportunity to drop our greedy delusions.

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Might toddling Donnie's — NATO poop-throwing — be of unappreciated value?