When Vasco da Gama was preparing to embark in 1497 in search of the sea road to India, King Manuel instructed him to receive an audience with the large overseas leaders – priest John and councilman Calcutta.
Only half of these commands were implemented. There was contact with the council, but the priest failed. It was a painful defeat due to the fact that John was the king of a large Christian power, flourishing somewhere “behind the Nile” and Portugal hoped that as a believer of the same religion he would support her in the war with non-Christians for control of the routes of supply of spices and gold.
Priest John and his non-existent kingdom
The alliance with the kingdom of the priest was to be the most crucial component of the Portuguese expansion plan.
However, plans had to be changed. The Portuguese did it on their own. But their "island" empire in the Indian Ocean, although it was a success, was not as strong, large and lasting as it might have been if it had been able to gain the resources of a strong ally.
But blaming Vasco da Gama for this partial failure would be inappropriate. He did not make an alliance with the kingdom of John, not due to the fact that he was inept or unwise – this is surely not to be said of him. This was due to the fact that this kingdom never existed. Unfortunately.
Geopolitical Hallucination
King Manuel did not deficiency cognition – he created his plans based on strictly technological data and the most reliable sources. Of course, from his era.
The belief that in Africa or Asia there is simply a superpote mate with the king – the priest at the head gave assurance to the Crusaders in the 12th century. “They knew” that the king would stand by them in Palestine. It was then that the Pope sent his MPs to John, who never returned from this journey. A small later, he told about the priest “in detail” Marco Polo. The Arabs, Byzantines, Persians and Mongols knew about the existence of his country... It was besides known in the Old Russian tradition as the crazing pop Ivan.
There is nothing different about the fact that this bright geopolitical hallucination has more or little influenced the behaviour of major powers for 400 years. And although geopolitics are set on a “great chessboard”, next to the wooden figures of kings and pawns it is “present”, besides in our time, spectral, nonexistent, but naively taken into account erstwhile planning the “decisive movements” figure of Father John.
Necessity of illusion
Every strategist has his “prince of John” in the form of his favourite illusion and unconscious mistake among sober calculations. Priest John's agent is simply a key force in all large game. Without this misleading figure, no player will start the game. Just due to the fact that he wouldn't believe in winning.
And it's not about trying to lie to individual or to yourself. This is not about any scamming, but about simplicity.
The human head naturally perceives reality not in its pure form, but always complements it. It complements what is unreal. Illusion is simply a catalyst for action. And revelations of truth. Without inventions, there is no movement. There is besides no subsequent encounter with reality as a consequence of it. Sometimes not very upbuilding, looking beautiful "only on paper"...
The head produces errors as abundantly as the real courts. The impropriety is unreasonable; artificial intelligence will surpass human intelligence only erstwhile it learns to make mistakes.
Reality Born from Errors
In each ambitious plan, at least 1 of the 2 or 3 points of support by which individual intends to leave Earth's position is simply a fiction.
In the present planet system, geopolitical hallucinations play a function no little than in the Vasco da Gama era. And it doesn't substance that much if the U.S. strategists saw in their sleep a branding with “under this sign you will win”. And whether Berlin's strategists seemed to have "as always" with the right "German precision" they managed to grasp and foretell everything. Or possibly all together recognized Ukraine as Father John's empire, a wonderful and ready-for-all abroad country to aid them.
The crucial thing is that their bloody game will accomplish goals that no 1 is going to today. And everybody gets not precisely what they're trying to do or not what they're trying to do. Present errors will uncover a distant truth.
Three-Only North
What can be seen in the future by looking beyond mirages? What happens if we remove illusory figures from the chessboard?
The large North will appear – Russia, the United States and Europe, which will make a common sociocultural space. The three-only northern geopolitical cluster.
The North's hunch is already marked by the expanding usage of the word "global South". And the south cannot be without midnight.
The word “global North” was in fact synonymous with “West” and so the duplication of another word did not take place. Now the outlines of the large North, although barely visible, are already appearing and have a completely different meaning.
Synthesis of Civilization
Today, it is hard to believe that competing systems will yet scope a advanced level of convergence. But it was not easy to imagine a united Russia erstwhile a prince Mikhail Turski fought against the Duchy of Moscow. It was equally hard to believe in the unification of Europe in times Albrecht von Wallenstein. Or in unifying American states – at the first phase of the Yankee War with Confederates.
In front of our eyes, there is simply a turbulent reaction to the synthesis of civilization. erstwhile all the knuckles of falsehood are dispelled, it will consequence in the dissolution of the West and the East in the large North. All participants of this process last and will experience tragic transformations again and again until they yet begin to fit together in the implementation of the large project. This has been going on for centuries and many decades.
Yes, it won't be soon. No – it will not be “in our time.” The chance to make a large Northern Alliance was wasted in the early 2000s erstwhile our president proposed that the Americans think of Russia's membership in NATO. The proposal was rejected. most likely due to the fact that within specified a fresh safety structure, Moscow could challenge Washington's hegemony and take over its influence on the "younger" members of the alliance.
From paranoia to methane
Such proposals shall not be made twice. The United States is inactive surviving their chronic phobias and maniacs. The European Union is inactive not independent, remaining an enlarged version of Bizonia.
The way of Americans and Europeans from paranoia to methane is long and bumpy; they will not mature into the real world. Not immediately, however, does not mean that never.
The large North is neither a utopia nor a dystopia; it is neither an idyll nor a dark place. It will be full of contradictions, but at the same time engulfed with the unifying thought of collective leadership.
Common Source
The common future is determined by common roots.
The 3 largest northern civilizations – Russian, European and American – draw political inspiration from the pattern Pax Romana. Old Man’s Words Philoteus To this day, they are directing Russia. The European Union has declared its forefather Charles the Great, “Roman Emperor”. The most celebrated hill in Washington is named after the legendary Capitol.
The first code of these 3 metacultures lies in Iliad and Gospel. Their resemblance is obvious.
Our triumph will change both us and the alleged West. It will be another step towards integration of the large North, in which our country will act as a soldier of the global triumvirate.
The place of hostility of the present days will replace creativity. It will not be so much the merit of future politicians as Homer and St. Brand.
Władysław Surkov
Source: https://actualcomment.ru/rozhdenie-severa-2309262036.html
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