Thread by @ThyConsigliori

John Minford, #SunTzu 3:4 "The next [highest form of warfare], to attack alliances; the next to attack armies;"

Brackets added and refer back to verse 3:3 for context.

Let's review. Don't fight, use strategy, defeat your enemy, that's true excellence. Hard to let go of that. Have you imbibed the ideas fully into your mind's digestive process?

Ultimate Excellence is:

1) Defeat the Enemy with
2) No Fighting and
3) Solely by Means of Strategy

Alas, today we drop down two notches away from ultimate excellence. We'll call yesterday's a Black Belt lesson, and today's a Red and Brown, perhaps? You know, from Karate class at the mall?

Red Belt = Attack Alliances
Brown Belt = Attack Armies

I can't help but digress to the use of belts in Karate. In Japan, the white belt was given to beginners, along with a gi, a white uniform. The uniform is routinely washed. The belt, never. Practice leads to a darker and darker belt, until it's black. No tests or grades.

And in an elegant full circle, as the belt gets worn out, it first turns grey and then grows into an almost pure white again, which is the result/cause loop of true mastery. It's kind of Eastern thing, as opposed to tests and grades and colored belts. Okay, digression complete.

I regret Obama. More than I could ever express. Not that I was a supporter, I wasn't. But I sure was happy for America to have its first black president. Of the countless reasons I regret him is his Red Belt genius at attacking alliances. Ours.

I'll try to walk rapidly through three Red Belt examples:

1) Iran vs. Middle East Alliance
2) Russia vs. NATO
3) Racial Prejudice vs. Rule of Law

In all three, Obama attacked critical alliances with extraordinary and vicious force, and oh so successfully.

Have you heard the argument that $150 billion was, after all, Iran's money? That America needed the nuclear deal in order to be safe? That the $400 million in cash, shipped out in foreign currencies so as not to be traceable to the US Treasury was required?

As I understand it, the cash part was actually $1.7 billion, but the Treasury was limited by sanctions laws to only sending $1.3 billion. Don't ask me why. Did you already do the math? $400 million in foreign currency so as to skate sanctions, financial controls.

1.3 + .4 = 1.7

What's all this got to do with Red Belt mastery? Iran is Israel's and the US's greatest enemy in the Middle East. Oh, and the be-sworn conqueror of Iraq. Do you remember the 8-year war between Iran and Saddam's Iraq? They didn't need to fight that war. Just wait for Obama, done.

In order to destroy our alliance, Obama didn't need to start a war. Just pay for nuclear capability and voila, Iran can confront every other nation in the region, and ultimate us, the US. No greater threat to our alliances has ever occurred, not even the fall of the Shah.

Of course all this did start a war, it gave rise to ISIS and there's been a bit of fighting that resulted. That was actually a Brown Belt error, and led to attacking armies. Obama's Red Belt success, with Iran, led to his ISIS Brown Belt failure. He didn't plan that one.

I won't spend as much time on Russia, the live mike, more freedom after the 2012 election, Crimea, Ukraine - oh, can't we speak about Uranium One; no, down boy, too complicated - and all that rot. The only thing we need to do is ask, was NATO stronger in 2008 or 2016?

One thing I have to cover is Putin's genius application of the Law of Deception. They're not wars of conquest. They're natural uprisings and enjoy the integrity of Democracy, the will of the people. His special forces who obviously aren't in uniform, fomenting unrest. Brilliant.

This is all 100% Obama's Red Belt mastery. It has nothing to do with oil, or access to oceans, or any other clap trap arguments. It has but one target. NATO. And NATO can't respond. Oh, I can't go back to all the soldiers and weapons systems we've pulled out Europe, either.

Just know, please, that @realDonaldTrump is building NATO back up, with strength. And know that the world of Obama is freaking out over the recovery and replenishment of America's alliance strategy. Wait till you see how strong NATO is in 2024.

In America, we love our police. We revere all first responders. We always have, but it was an absolutely unforeseen consequence of 9/11 that all our first responders became heroes, and not just those that ran towards the falling towers. It became a national love affair.

And here's the greatest kicker of all. No one cares about the race of their paramedic when they're suffering a heart attack. It is 100% non-racial. The most well-integrated expression of Martin Luther King's vision was, by 2008, our first responders of every service.

Let's name this the Rule of Law Alliance. We have to talk about that. The purpose of law is to protect the weak against the strong. That the strong guy is fire in your house doesn't change the basic formula.

Fire = Strong
House Dweller = Weak

Talk about a rainbow alliance! From criminals to natural disasters, to terrorists, to any foreign entity attacking us on any front, the Rule of Law Alliance is the very backbone of America. It obviously had to be weakened. What a great victory for Obama's Red Belt mission.

I have to beg. Please read Saul Alinsky's works. The most important is Rules For Radicals, but it's not the most personal. Reveille For Radicals gives his mission its human face more deeply. It's been said countless times that Obama is Alinsky's greatest student.

We might theorize that the Sun Tzu caliber ability to attack alliances makes Alinsky's works the greatest guides to Red Belt mastery ever written. Alinsky was far more than merely a great tactician. He was a strategic genius. You simply can't understand Red Belt without him.

In coming chapters and verses, we'll have plenty of time to explore Trump's Black Belt mastery, and yes, it takes a Black Belt to defeat the strategy of a Master Red Belt like Obama. And of all the alliances Trump is building, #MAGA is the greatest.

45 verses completed, 397 to go.

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