This is a subtle advice to President Anura Dissanayake.
Nicolle Machiavelli, the Diplomat
Machiavelli had two paths for success for a prince.
Mind you these are all against Dhamma Principles of Buddhism.
Path one is of absolute ruthlessness.
King has to a be an ace liar.
He has to be miserly to his subjects.
He has to be very lavish for his retinue.
He should be harsh to the people.
He should have an army.
He should purge powerful military men.
In other words he should murder the Generals when Italy was fully conquered.
Italy was divided into three, Florence, Naples and Roma and headed by vested interests.
He should not trust flatters.
He should be surrounded by wise men.
If there any left in Ceylon, I doubt.
Other path is diplomacy.
For diplomacy to work there should be laws that control the commoner or his subjects.
Subjects should fear him.
Subjects should honour him.
Only after satisfying the above two provisos, he should show kindness to some of his favoured subjects.
Always guard against the flatters.
In Human history, the Fear was the base for power.
Fear of death, disease, disability and old age are natural to humans.
The slogan is these natural tendencies should be harnessed to remain in power.
Rulers are
King first
Army second
Law and order the last.
Democracy never works.
War is common in human history.
Diplomacy was rare.
Nicolle Machiavelli, I believe was a classic example of how
diplomacy was muted in the medieval history having subdued all
opponents by any mean including fear of death and punishment.
These are all real and perceived threats.
Whereas as the threats created by Church are not teal but man made concoctions.
There were 3 elements in history.
King
Pope
Army
Councillors were non existent.
All my life I did not know who was Machiavelli.
An old lady whom I used to see on medical grounds, when I visited her, gave me a book in Sinhala, called Prince.
This lady is no more and she lived well past 80.
She was a real political character and there were no political overtones in my simple consultations.
The paradox was that she claimed that she followed Buddha Dhamma.
I refused, since its content were political but on second thought accepted it.
Once, I tried to read it but got bored instantly.
Today, Google enticed me with several YouTube presentations.
This is an attempt to relive his attempts on diplomacy.
He was called prince of political philosophy.
To begin with politics has no philosophy.
Politics is the manifestation of Greed and Power.
The three who manifest this greed are obvious.
Depending on the Power of the Pope and his greed for territorial claims and dominance Wars were created by design.
Pope was the greediest of all.
Once war is started even Pope cannot intervene since there are many sectors including Orthodoxy.
We need a modern Machiavelli of high repute.
I do not think we would find one until, Ukraine is decimated in full.
Do not put the blame on President Putin.
He is prepared to drag this
war until the presidential election in US is over and done with.
Then only, a suitable diplomatic entity should emerge.
I
do not think Donald Trump has understood the extent and he will
invariably be controlled by the Military Industrial complex, when he
comes in to power.
I
do not think President Putin should trust any American and their one
sided diplomacy until he has reached Odessa and a real corridor of
defense is established..
Zelensky is an American Baby Doll, an Untrustworthy Soul of Hate.
He thrives on Hate of Russians.
There is something called Zelensky Curse, anything he touches burns to ashes.
The last in this SAGA are Kamala Harris and Joe Biden.
It is TRUE.
One has to accept the American Defeat (of the Military Industrial Complex) and the Americans have to swallow the bitter pill.
Americans do not know how to accept DEFEAT.
Biden wanted Putin changed and it would turn out to be that the opposite of what he intended would materialize.
His own downfall is certain.
Biden
and his policies would be changed without a single gun fired towards
America.
Already 5,000 Russian soldiers are dead.
Ukrainian death toll is estimated to be over 500,000 and a ratio of over 1 to 10.
Russians stood up to the Nazis, the current Nazis are in the Democratic Party.
Democratic Party should be ousted to begin with.
I do not know how many are displaced and how many are permanently
wounded in Ukraine.
Probably that runs into millions and much more than the second
world war casualties.
Killing fields should be stopped that include Kursk in Russia, initiated by the NATO Guys.
I think President Putin has achieved that target, too.
