RE CITIZENSHIP AUTHORITY AND WAR DK POST UKRAINE RESPONSIBLE STATECRAFT FLEDERMAUS

 Professor

The West had needed, certainly by 1905, as I have argued elsewhere, to have maintained its control, in every sense, over the Rest, including developmentally, rather than to have released it, or allowed it to proliferate in the East. The Russo-Japanese War was the event that should have made this crystal clear back then. The Boxer Rebellion was another event that should have opened eyes in the West.

The Rest should not have been boomed or industrialized, or allowed to do so,  against the grain of its traditional cultures and economies. It still should not.

This is not an argument about what is or is not good for the Rest, but rather about the course of Western security needs and requirements themselves, and for the maintenance of authority, Western authority, anywhere. 

A good example of how this Asian copycat "boom" attempt was done, disastrously, by the developmental Rest itself, but with our help, in both the USSR and China, is the forced collectivizations (5 Year Plans, etc) and mass exterminations by Stalin, in Ukraine and elsewhere. 

One can do the same analysis for China developmentalism.

All the best

Postscript

The failure to follow the counterfactual course I outline above has now, 100 years later, become not a discretionary and insignificant matter, but rather one of life and death for the Anglophone Western Civilization, and for its rivals, gathering force against both the West, and each against every other as well:

Sunday, September 4, 2011

KENNAN REFERENCES RE FLEDERMAUS AND COVENT GARDEN PRODUCTION

"If we could afford to preserve an opera-bouffe political system, in which everything was taken in the spirit of Strauss' 'Fledermaus,' I should be the last person to oppose anything which could add so materially to the humor of it as our type of amateurism in government.......But if death, torture and misery are not laughing matters, then neither is political life in these times; for death, torture and misery have become the penalties of political failure."