Every nation has sovereign right.
But nations like Iran, or say Afghanistan or North Korea, cannot be sovereign
equal to international community. Regressive murderous mullahs don’t have any
iota of civilizational value to represent Iran; indeed, they are antagonistic
to civilized values. Oppressive authoritarian state’s claim to sovereignty is tenuous,
it breaks when freedom is severely curtailed and citizens reduced to cattle, there are mass killings of common people on regular basis and
state persistently uses its machinery to export terror. Sovereignty of a nation was violated
and international law severely undermined recently in Venezuela by the brazen
acts of US. This narration cannot be extended to Iran. Iran violated basic
human rights by systemic violence and mass killing and random brutalizing of its people while
spreading terror to other parts of the world in gross violation of international
laws. It is not breakdown of state machinery. It is a complete breakdown of
humanity. Conscientious horrified people across the world cannot just look sickened
by these gross violations of humanity. Iran lost its sovereign right. It was
for the international community to assert itself through consensus like UN
(which needs urgent reforms, countries like Britain have no locus standii
whatsoever), since it woefully failed opportunist forces capitalized as also
nation whose security was periled reacted. Though one may question the process,
as also dubious arbitrators, what cannot be questioned is the outcome. The
outcome that was urgently needed and meant life and death for millions of
people and their indelible right to assert as humans unshackled from brutal
regime and primitive medieval values.
Rule based international order and
ethical norms are not the burden of individual nations with compounding
problems and cynical self-interest in an increasingly polarizing world. It
therefore becomes pertinent for international community to assert and
channelize these concerns through international bodies. These international
bodies must not be representing the interest of powerful and majority but
assert a neutral moral ethical ideal stand and collective will of humanity. If
international bodies are not able to present a cohesive position due to varying
interests atleast the head who represents such bodies like UN (which has become
increasingly indispensable in the volatile world) must be a fearless beacon for
righteous wise opinion. So that common people across the world get necessary
perspective, and are influenced, to understand an idealized view of world for
reference. Righteous sanity space is increasingly needed in a cynical opportunistic
world. These references and presences are important, and so is powerful
influential voices articulating these. Look at how UN Secretary General went
about congratulating murderous Iranian regime on its anniversary just few
days after massacre. When important positions are filled by people with narrow
ambitions and questionable morals humanity suffers.
Indian problem: Nation’s
foreign policy is hinged on geopolitical landscape, security concerns and
national interests in the broad framework of humanistic concerns and
international laws. India cannot remain in the mirage of principled neutral
player that goes against its national interests, it has to deal with emerging
situation pragmatically. Non-alignment, and being neutral to fast changing
geopolitical space and cutting-edge technology, needs the nation to be strong
and foundationally equipped. India woefully lacks these; the gravitas that
India carries is from huge population of a large peninsular nation. For long,
in the misplaced sense of exceptionalism and characteristic self-assuredness (blessedness
that reflects flawed wasted Indian elite lacking redeeming quality or competence
nevertheless entitled wise that see world including cosmos as their fiefdom!), narration was worked that India is a moral righteous presence on the world
stage and torchbearer of nonviolence. Nothing can be far from this devious
construct (meanwhile all the goodies from this construct as representors were
usurped while they settled their nepotistic and corrupt presence into
profitable spaces across the world). Visit any part of India and you will see
degradation of humanity, where people are kept as snarling herd in fiction of
mythical greatness and cheap tawdry entertainment to assert the same. Everyday
violence may not be always blood and gore but worst, as degraded
dehumanized humans are kept as showpiece recipient of benefactor’s whims and
blessing (for Castetva this is vote salivation with liberal masquerade, for
Hindutva it is a religious experience -the hindu redemption. Teeming
desperate populace presents diverse opportunity!) that further creates schisms
among herd primed in worst of possibilities. Incompetent law and order
machinery and tardy judicial system are no accident, these violations are
construct to work devious narration. Never has a society reached such depth of
depravity but still has the temerity to position as moral torchbearer.
Manipulating narration and working semantics is how squatter values worked and
strengthened britishery and vice versa. It is britishery that help consolidate
the myth of civilizational greatness and nonviolence while handful of racist
colonizers went for the loot -facilitated so as to maintain impeccable
credentials of nincompoops. Ultimately impact of these posturing and miseries
are delegated to common people. Just the simple details of horrors hidden in
HDI will elucidate what India is all about. It will show how castetva forces transferred
colonial systems to itself for systemic exploitation and degradation. Note how
everyday systemic violence is either ignored or else manipulated as
law-and-order issue which then vanishes into files and dragged into
timelessness and finally to the play of fate and blessedness. Please don’t fall
for this constant rant vasudhaiva kutumbakam (whole world is a family, o
dear the audacity) balderdash, be extremely suspicious of people who utter these. These
are construct from brutal society where even people living in neighborhood
-ofcourse marked ghettos, for ages (or else migrant issue would have worked
wonderfully well for liberal posturing!), following same god (or else liberal
positioning would unravel at the first tick itself!) of same skin color (or
else liberal positioning will be horrible case of racism!), speak same language
(or else liberal positioning diversity cart would be empty), dressing same (and
here we are posing for LGBTQ!) are not the same community! This is beginning of
diversity of barbarians that redefines every form of debauchery anywhere in the
world. This is world as family! For last many decades nepotist morally corrupt suave
castetva congress worked this narration of ‘spiritual moral’ nonviolent India
onto world, and now rustic hindutva is securing it as it gains
savviness that comes with power. Please world don’t fall for this hypocrisy.
Gandhi was constructed through degrading soul of humanity. Gandhian carry this
rot of exceptionalism.
Spiritualism begins with basic
awareness, which include basic human values, empathy and enlightened
understanding and awareness of other. That strain of spiritualism which West
seeks has long moved to East Asia. Here it is waste, a compromise, a mask and a
theater of extraction. Surrounded by muck fate driven people stampede for
purity. If you can understand the deep meaning of this sentence, you will have
no difficulty understanding the core of rot. Anything enlightening is an
exception, indeed it could be initiation from witnessing this overwhelming
degrading absurdity and utter unconcern if you haven’t lost your human bearing
in the crass. There is nothing special about this region. We are just like any
other part of the world. Just humans in desperate situations. Hopefully
Iranians are able to negotiate for better world.
