"Society that separates its scholars from its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting by fools.”
Jun 28 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
Forget the world order of yesterday. Zoom out. Think long-term.
Because the real war of the 21st century isn’t about borders per se, it's about civilizations: The West vs China.
Russia? Not a civilization - never was, never will be. Just a piece on the Go board. Its role is to take territory and bleed itself dry, while weakening and dividing the West. The Dragon (🇨🇳) watches the Bear ( 🇷🇺) bleed and will collect the spoils when the time is right. Let’s break this down. To understand the clash, we have to know who’s fighting. 🧵👇1/ What is Western civilization?
Athenian logic: categories, clarity, contradiction.
Roman law: institutions over men.
Christian values: the soul comes before the state.
The individual is sovereign; truth is arbitrated in court.
Clausewitz doctrine.
The result? A rules-based world order. Not static, not chined to immovable hierarchies, but agile and adaptable.
Sep 10, 2021 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
Do you guys know the meaning of the term "ketman"?
It's a Persian word for the practice of maintaining an outward appearance of Islamic orthodoxy while inwardly dissenting.
2/ In the former Soviet Union, ketman was the strategy everyone who wasn’t a true believer in communism adopted to stay out of trouble from the state authorities. You lived by lies to survive because you thought you had no other choice.
