The Greatest Virtue of any warrior is Patience

A great warrior chooses his moment and his terrain and his time. Time is clearly on the side of the East, of Russia and China.

The two biggest threats to world stability and peace are being waged at this moment and these are where the East is focused, not on the numerous brush fires that will extinguish themselves.

America's nuclear arsenal is under siege by the Neocon military industrial complex. There have already been several attempts at commandeering nuclear weapons and facilities. If this should ever happen, nuclear war will be a reality. Moshe Dayan said that "Israel must be like a mad dog, too dangerous to bother." The flaw in Dayan’s simile is that a mad dog is too dangerous to ignore as well as too dangerous to bother. Not even Dayan took his own advice seriously, but the Neocons, who are mostly Zionists, are less intelligent than Dayan and even more arrogant. They are too arrogant to take Eastern opinion into account, a fatal mistake if the East concludes that the Neocons are mad dogs that must somehow be put down. You don’t turn the other cheek to a mad dog of course. If he’s too powerful to kill, you stay out of his way until everyone realizes the danger and unite to confront it. The question confronting the planet, not just Russia and China, is how to put down the Neocons without being bitten by their huge nuclear arsenal. Those whom the gods destroy they first make mad, and neoconservatism, in a nuclear-armed world, is a form of madness.

If Syria becomes a vassal state for the Neocons, it will be turned into a launching base for terrorists into Iran and the Caucasus, and a full scale attack on Iran. This is why Iblid is vitally important to Russia and Iran. Make no mistake about it, one way or another, the terrorists will be destroyed. Russia is not turning its’cheek, it is remaining focused to point. Russia has not thrown Donbass under the bus either. Ukraine is imploding and it desperately needs a war started by Russia to rally its’ demoralized population. Ain’t gonna happen. A large offensive against the Donbass would lead to another revolution or civil war and an overthrow of the Junta.

The next great war will not be fought on the ground, but in the air. Positioning NATO troops and bases on the Russian border makes them easy and convenient targets. Patience is on Russia, China and Iran's side. Posturing is the strategy of the weak.

There is still time for Trump to abandon the Neocon foreign policy agenda, tell Israel and Saudi Arabia to go to hell, and get back to putting America First in terms of foreign policy. But time (and patience) is running its course.