- and India has surpassed the US in renewable-energy production in 2017, thanks to the Trump administration's return to incentivizing coal production.
Do you think the Chinese are heeding their great warrior philosopher? Should we too?
"The greatest victory is that which requires no
battle."
"- Sun Tzu, The Art of War
We are not at war with China nor should we be, but the moral and economic health of a nation depends on how smartly it invests its natural and human resources. When we invest our dollars in ingesting our soldiers with PTSD through trumped-up wars and weaponize our air with microscopic climate-weirding shrapnel, we're setting ourselves up for losing the war to Mother Nature and to a crazed future regime.
Olympian warfare
If nations want to battle for the hearts and minds of the world's citizens, let them do so by training their citizens to demonstrate their skills by serving the world in its peaceful development. Let the Olympics be an example of how nations ought to compete. Let King Arthur's celebratory Jousting of Knights Day be as close as nations move toward warfare.
In a smart nation and world, training well for warfare is as close as nations would get to war.
Let American dreamers lead the way with a one million strong American World Service Corps National Service (AWSCNS) program. Let there be an American-Chinese Peace Corps, America-Russian Peace Corps, etc. Model it after Congresswoman Boxer's HR 1807. Start winning Sun Tzu victories for the world "which requires no battle."
By practicing through robust national service, the act of "Keeping friends close and enemies closer," the world will more quickly and bloodlessly learn that we are all potential friends.
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