Fight The Power, Not For Power
The Gantt Report
By Lucius Gantt
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The current problems between Russia and Georgia makes me think about some historical conflicts involving the countries of the world and the role of physical and material confrontations.
There was military involvement in the land dispute between Russia and Georgia. Russia has the stronger military and could easily crush Georgia in a battle so the United States and others have threatened, or suggested, a possible military response to Russian troop actions.
What’s up? I thought the “Cold War” was over and countries were supposed to settle their differences diplomatically.
There are military movements in Georgia and in various other parts of the world because people have learned through life experiences how many countries grow and prosper.
Historically, if a country had a big enough army and saw something that they wanted, they would just take it.
Almost every one of the so-called “world powers” got powerful by their use or their threats of violence.
Israel is powerful. That country has seen a lot of violence. China is powerful. They have seen a few bloody battles in their history. South Africa is powerful. Everyone would agree that the system of apartheid was brutally violent for many years.
Russia and the United States are trash talking each other about The Republic of Georgia. Neither country is wasting time. What ever move either one of them makes, its violence related. If you bomb them, we’ll bomb you, so to speak.
How dumb can they be? The only thing Russia and the United States can do to smaller, less powerful countries and to each other is bomb people. Neither country can win a war on the ground, anywhere! A guerrilla war is an urban war. A guerrilla war takes courage, heart and desire. In a guerrilla war, enemy combatants will shine your shoes during the day and cut your throat at night. If the Georgian people believe in liberty or death, there is only so far the Russian army can go. Russia wants to bomb but they don’t want to go door-to-door in Georgia. Russia does not want to fight hand-to-hand. If you stop the bombing, you stop the perpetrators. Not too long ago, Israel had to stop bombing Hezbollah in Lebanon.
The only power so-called super powers have is economic power. Same power as we have. They can stop selling and we can stop buying.
This idea that every dispute has to be solved with violence or violent threats has to be abandoned and discredited. The people can see and we can understand.
Most of the world’s conflicts between countries are about land, most recently land with oil reserves. Problem is, all revolutions are fought for land too.
History suggests that the countries that lived by the sword, died by the sword. Pol Pot might have killed millions in Cambodia to seize power. Pot is gone but, look at Cambodia now, there’s not much power.
Russia made its point. They just need to back that thing up and take those tanks back to Moscow.
If they want Georgia, they should just buy it! (Gantt’s new book “Beast Too:Dead Man Writing” is coming soon and will be illustrated by Lance Scurvin. Contact Lucius at www.allworldconsultants.net)
