President Biden is embarking on a new concept in diplomacy: calling on an ally, Kenya, our friend for 60 years, to become a leader in African politics!

 Right now, as we enter the AI stage of reliance upon the computer, it is an absolute necessity to bring along Africa with us in this highly tech age.

Specifically, the emphasis needs to be directed in education to learning and becoming skilled in using the verbal skills, deployed in the mind.  Those kids whose parents are part of the Silicon Valley of Kenya should be learning intensively how to use facts to support their considered opinions and express their opinions cogently!  Valuable abilities in using AI.

Just as our troops struggled over the years to keep the Muslim extremists at bay in Africa, so now a contingency of Kenyan police will calm down the gang activity in Haiti, it is hoped.  To do so, the Kenyans will need to learn the languages of Haiti and the ways of Haitians.  Yes, this is what being called upon to lead a country into peace entails.

Thanks to President Ruto for accepting the challenge of leadership on the African continent.  It further entails being a mentor to countries in Africa willing to ally themselves with democracy, a posture already accepted by the Kenyan people.

My opinion.  

   

    

What's needed to be taught to make democracy work where it doesn't now?

I've been apprised of discussions on the framework of social culture needed to make democracy ingrained into the social fabric.

1.  Knowing and living by the rule of law.  In many societies, who you know is more important than what rules of society written into the legal system for purposes of enforcement you abide by.  The notion of conduct by forgiveness undergurds the system of "who you know" obedience.  

2.  Knowing how to take a position after studying relevant facts on a topic, being able to articulate that position and defend it against those who oppose it is a required skill attained from one's educational years.

3.  And, a course in high school civics covers the mechanics of voting and taking stands on governmental issues.

These three areas of one's intellectual skills are obtained and developed in one's years of schooling K-12, generally.

My suggestion.

  

China's loans have impoverished nations in Africa. Now some African nations are poised to take their goodies from under the earth.

It's a underground mineral grab from African countries.  Niger is the goodie-box underground that is just being tapped now, even as the Western nations pull out of the Sahel.  For in marches Russia's Wagner group: how timely!

Four generals in a row rule the countries of the Sahel.  Democracy has been tried; and democratically elected politicians have failed the people.

They were not raised in democratic cultures; how could they succeed in that they know only to use to win governmental powers?

Letting countries say they are democratic, as is currently claimed by the most autocratic of regimes, simply to curry the grace of the electorate, is not living in a democracy, whose basic tenet of government is to follow the rule of law in matters of mankind.

My opinion.

 

Be it known worldwide what Asia is reminded daily: China is aggressive and not an ally of the West.

Asian neighbors of China have learned to know how to react when China steps out of line with them.

But Serbia is actually friends with China and is situated on the European continent.  It dates back to when China was gaining its own independence; when the Chinese embassy was bombed in Belgrade.

On a recent trip to Serbia, President Xi stopped at where the Chinese embassy was until bombed by the West, commenting to the effect that "the Western-led order is bad and must be changed." Economist, May 11, 2024, p. 32.   

Yes, definitely, China is not an ally of the West, but a pretty good trading partner, especially with Germany!

My opinion.  

There's an overcapacity of cars in the Chinese automotive market, especially electric models.

 President Biden has applied tariffs to Chinese new model cars, up to 100%.  Plainly, consumer demand to go green in the automotive industry is affected by the manufacturers who are hoping for a modification leading to less pressure for the public to buy electric cars compared to the popular combustible engine varieties.

Ultimately, the real issue is how much upheaval, destruction and catastrophe upon the earth can people be expected to recover from in where they work and live under climate change?  Roadways are being flooded regularly due to tornadoes and storms.  Can people live their normal lives with so much chaos in land contour and water inundation upon land once streets and roads but no longer? 

China needs simply to store the electric cars of which its industry has more than enough to meet demand this year in order to reap profits from electric car sales in subsequent years.

In any case, globalization is working, despite glitches in its features due to protectionism of tech patents and innovations in the semiconductor chip industry and the current need to maintain employment levels to ward off a recession due to any overcapacity in the US production.   

Nevertheless, the youth of all nations should take computer training to qualify for just about any field even at entry positions!

My opinion.

The Nuremberg Trials are still remembered; we need our leaders to be held accountable for humanitarian atrocities!

There seems to be a plethora of wars and battlements arising worldwide, especially in the Sudan and the Middle East.

If calling our world leaders to account for their part will stop the bloodshed of the innocent, then so be it!  The tribunal setting seems to have worked wonders in the case of the Yugoslav Milosevic, years ago.

It might behoove Mr. Benjamin Netanyahu to explain to the International Criminal Court, that apparently looks ill upon his military acumen, why he must kill countless innocent bystanders on the Gaza Strip.

My opinion.

US has come up with a model of nation rebuilding par excellence!

I've seen it in Iraq.  General David Patraeus was a major architect for the new Iraq.

Now, today, on Fareed Zakaria's GPS show General David Patraeus outlined a US-conceived reconstruction for the Palestinian lands governed by the Palestinian Authority. 

I am most enthusiastic to see steps toward US involvement in the Gaza and West Bank reconstruction, pending the withdrawal of Israeli collateral military action upon innocent lives in the area, a sad series of events, announced in  the United Nation Assembly recently.

My opinion.

PS: Former Vice President Dick Cheney promoted the idea that US is good at nation building; and the Army Corps of  Engineers has an outstanding reputation in reconstructing edifices!       

I'm been targeted again--like in the old days.

I've been doing volunteer work for the US some 40+ years now; and have been loving it--all!

April was my sign-on month those many years ago.

Well, this last April, I got a Comcast bill I had to pay, because I'm dependent on using the widescreen TV in my work.

Now it looks like my April payment for Verizon has been lost in the mail, so I'll have two payments to make this month, May.

You people have done great in handling my problems since I've been in DC.  Please do your magic once more--nay, twice more!

Thanks for your help.  I find it's a constant, needed thing.

Cordially,    

It would be great if President Biden could somehow coin his campaign on making a "democratic society," even a "democratic world order!"

I think there's enough for a new philosophy of education--"Democratic way of life," "Training in democracy."

With AI on the horizon, the emphasis is on training in verbal skills, brain activity--thinking first, articulating, then doing!  Biden could set the pace for centuries to come, I believe.  I know it sounds weird, but it may be the founders of our country were onto something--"Thinking first," planning before doing via overall goals.  Campaign Purpose:  Going whole hog into the computer age.

Could he do it?  Up to him and his campaign.

My opinion, suggestion, etc.

You're seeing what the Israeli government is trying to do: earn the rights to remove Palestinians from what was intended for them in 1948.

Now it's coming out, how the Jews would just love to take over the West Bank and Gaza Strip from Palestinian development--why Israel just treated the Palestinians under the Palestinian Authority as second-class citizens.

They're talking now of developing towns just bordering Gaza.  They're trying to claim the West Bank outright.

They'd extend to take land from Jordan, if they could, I believe.  That area, in short, is idyllic.

My opinion.    

To make way for democracy, parents should engage in conversations with their children from early stages of development.

The key is to keep talking with them.  Let them learn to make noises, that turn into vowels and consonants and finally words; sentences.

Emerge from looks to talks, letting them try expressing what they are feeling.  Talk with them even before they can successfully manage to utter words.

Democracy thrives on talking with one another.  Get away from fights and conflict to expressing what you feel!  Don't just give them the bottle, tell them what you're doing.  You are sharing with them the gift of talk and saying what you feel and think.  They will faster pick up on the words' meaning.  Follow the talking between them and you with actions appropriate.

Establishing a society of humans around the table, the public square takes time and effort; well worth it, you'll note soon enough.  And keep talking with them!

My opinion. 

It looks as if Georgia needs a mentor-nation already in the EU to help guide it to EU-full membership!

It may be that a nation-state that wants to join the EU is given a list of things it must do to qualify.  But is it given a member-state in the EU the status of being its mentor to help guide the applicant nation all the way to its becoming a member-state in the EU?

Sending a state to go it alone seems uncaring and renders no encouragement and knowledge--both needed to complete membership requirements--particularly because the process is so lengthy.  

What it really does, is enable those antipathetic to the project in Georgia and in Russia to go all out to prevent completion of the membership process!  You're giving the "enemy" to the Georgian project plenty of opportunity to thwart Georgia's avowed want of membership.

I say a welcoming should be evident in assigning an EU member to work with Georgia to achieve membership in the EU through the lengthy process that well may be worth it!  

My opinion. 

P.S. And if one nation has already been assigned, is the partnership working out?  The entertaining of a "foreign agent" bill in Georgia's legislature, akin to that in practice in Russia, may have the same results--people in prison!  

President Biden prevented an Iranian scourge of Israel, but Israel wants to complete a scourge of Gaza land.

There is one city that remains, possibly to be redeemed in Gaza land.

But, Israel won't listen to reason, apparently.

My opinion.   

President Biden, World Statesman, is doing a great thing on behalf of humanity!

Innocent adults and children were being slaughtered in the Gaza Strip.

Thank you, President Biden.  For your compassion to save lives.

My opinion.    

Having secured the backing of the Russian oligarchs and his people through an election, Putin appears ready to take on European NATO.

He is already blasting the Prime Minister Sunak of GB!  And has nothing good to say of the other leaders on the European Scene.  NATO, I hope your ready.  He's after big game, now; not the puny Ukrainian military.  He's thinking Russian Empire, even as he walked the halls of his Russian domain in celebration of another 6-year term of reign.

I think the President Macron of France is onto something important, not to be simply tossed aside, namely, come in with Zelensky's forces now, before the real battle begins for the whole of Europe.

I take President Putin's saber-rattling very seriously.  He can't handle the West, but he doesn't know that!  He may not understand that President Xi is simply pumping him, so to accelerate the Chinese space program. 

My opinion.    

The Team of China and Russia at China's Wenchang.

The Economist. April 27th issue, p. 34, contains an invite to establish a branch of its Moscow Power Engineering Institute at China's tropical spaceport.

Premier Xi envisions Wenchang as a center for a confluence of ideas--Chinese and Russian--that will lead to a "reform of the global governance system": intended, I surmise, to legitimatize their vying with the United States for leadership among the multitude of nations in the world.

Or, is China interested in capturing the knowledge of the Russian space program to be adapted to Chinese interests in outer space, looking to establish its very colony on another planet?

My wonderings.  

Chinese industrials locate plants in its region.

 Apparently, in order to look for opportunities abroad, Chinese companies have located outside of China but in the Asian area, e.g., South-East Asia; Vietnam (where in some provinces, businesses are nearly 40% Chinese owned).  This is simply evidence of Chinese diaspora regionally, luring Chinese investment tangentially.

I've felt particularly, Indonesia, is much on the move as we are in the United States!  They're rich in lithium for batteries, I understand.

My comment. 

   

3 Fields of knowledge in big demand today: energy, AI; and medicine.

And the major world powers, including United States and China in avowed competition with one another, are taking up the cudgel to encourage science among their educated elite.

Importantly, to stay abreast of innovations and new concepts in these three fields, there is much intercommunications and joint ventures, bringing together the world's greatest minds on these topics.

But there is a rumbling of possible break-throughs in space and astronomy as rich nations turn to constructing inter-planetary travel vehicles.

Thus, it would seem an explosion of new knowledge and un-imagined capabilities for mankind is on earth's horizon.

The world must calm down first, in order to comprehend ultimate principles of nature.  The primary condition in society: a world at peace.   

My philosophy.   

My Health Aide could get in trouble with her company!

 I goofed this morning because I was doing my volunteer work for the government.  

Could you guys smooth it over, so that she is ok?

Thanks for any help.  It's bound to happen now and again that I get swamped and make an error.