Geopolitics and historical memory, Japan´s crisis is the world´s as well

Coach is Right ^ | 6/6/15 | Sargis Sangari

[Oldpuppymax]

On 23 February 2015 while I was giving a talk at the Anti-Terrorism conference in Tokyo Japan ISIL forces were attacking the 37 Assyrian villages of the Khabour River Valley in Syria. Since that attack the Christian Assyrians have been virtually annihilated from Syria and will probably lose their footprint within those historical villages over the next two years.

The following day, I participated in a conference and a talk given by Mr. Michael Yon who spoke about the Comfort Women, which in itself is an information operation campaign, which China has used to influence world opinion about Japan.

The Chinese information operation campaign has been so strong that during Prime Minister Abe’s visit to the United States the first question that was asked of the Japanese PM was on the comfort women topic. An unbelievable question given that the last time an official Japanese delegation had visited the White House was 74 years ago when the Japanese delegation was summoned to the White House the day after Pearl Harbor was attacked.

The Middle East is no stranger to conflict particularly conflicts based on historical issues. Memory is directly tied to current alliances, and the inflaming of passions from a real or perceived incident sometimes centuries before, is used as a propaganda tool to suspend common sense and keep the embers of resentment burning.

But historical memory does serve a very useful function in understanding how a people thinks and acts the way it does. How well will they work with their neighbors, how able are they to adjust to the geopolitical and social realities of today? In the Middle East the Assyrians have arguably one of the longest memory tapestries in the world. And one that was able to adapt to the geopolitics without letting the flames of passion...

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In other words, propaganda works, even with history on your side - like the Catholic Church knows too well.

So Pope Francis says what he says, the media distorts it, he doesn’t fight that, the chicken-little catholics freak out or near-quit the faith, the rest of the christians and anti-christians do what they do, scoff or get curious, and the world goes on, polls doing what they will do.

Propaganda is effective. Trust in God. Nazism, Stalinism, Maoism,....all fell or are falling. North Korea will fall eventually, as will Cuba.

Truth wins eventually, but evil lies have their way of causing a lot of heart ache and blood loss in the long mean time.

[GraceG]

” The Chinese information operation campaign has been so strong that during Prime Minister Abe’s visit to the United States the first question that was asked of the Japanese PM was on the comfort women topic. “

The Japanese Prime Minister should have asked about the millions of innocent people killed during their glorious cultural “revolution” or the millions on women FORCED to have an abortion AGAINST their will.

All which happened a a number of years AFTER the “Rape of nanking”....