Leave my Great King - Genghis Khan alone

Chinggis (Genghis) Khaan

My King's name was mentioned in a quarrel between Israel's Prime Minister (labeled as a war criminal by International Criminal Court) Benjamin Netanyahu and Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi. 

But before I get into the details, I wanted my readers to know that my King's name has been spelled wrong and pronounced incorrectly, and I wanted to correct it first. 

It is written in Cyrillic alphabet (which we adopted while we were galloping  towards Socialism :) ) as Чингис Хаан , and in Latin alphabet it spelled in most cases like Genghis Khan and pronounced it with a hard G, like in Garage. The correct spelling is  Chinggis Khaan, with hard Ch as in Chocolate and with a long "a" in Khaan. Khaan or Хаан in Mongolian means King. In English -speaking countries this name is mostly pronounced incorrectly, but in Germany they do it much better: Dschingis Khan with Dsch pronounced like J as in Jungle. More correctly would be like Tschingis with Tsch pronounced as Ch like in Chocolate. 

So, what did Netanyahu say?

"Jesus Christ has no advantage over Genghis Khan without strength." (citing  a historian named Will Durant, to emphasize that power and ruthlessness should  dominate in conflicts) 

Araghchi accused Netanyahu of disrespecting Jesus Christ while praising Genghis Khan. Araghchi also described my King as one of the most violent figures in history. Let me just say to Mr.Araghchi: - You don't compare 13th century with 21st century! This is very dumb on your part! And don't you dare to talk ill about my King! 

"The worst slaughterer", you said? Let me remind you about what had happened and who started the war you were referring to.

Let me remind my dear readers that we are talking about 13th century events.  At that time there was a big empire called Khwarezmian Empire which consisted of large parts of present-day Afghanistan, Iran, and Central Asia, the most powerful state in and around Persia. 

Shah Muhammad ll was the powerful ruler of that Empire at that time.    Genghis Khan sent him a group of merchants with a message that he was interested in friendly trade relationships with him. Genghis Khan sent 450 merchants with precious gifts for him, a cargo of a caravan which included 500 camels of gold, silver, Chinese silk artefacts, rare skins etc., but a Governor, related to Shah, of a town arrested all merchants on the charge of espionage and massacred all of them with the permission of the Shah Muhammad ll. The goods were seized and sent to the Shah. Remind you that earlier a small group of merchants from Khwarezmian Empire was  handled by Genghis Khan with respect and sent them back with various goods. So, a friendly trade relationship was established, so to speak. Nevertheless, the Shah let Genghis Khan's merchants killed and robbed. 

Genghis  Khan was  angry (who wouldn't),  but he managed his anger and made his last attempt to solve the problem through diplomacy. He sent a Muslim man, who used to serve for a previous Shah of Khwarezmian Empire, accompanied by two Mongol envoys to protest this act and requested to surrender that Governor to the Mongols. But the Shah refused, and killed that Muslim envoy and sent the two Mongols with their beards and mustaches cut off, back to Genghis Khan.  A grave insult!!! 

Iran's Foreign Minister Araghchi

So, that was the reason for the Mongols to invade Khwarezmian Empire and take revenge. If Mr.Araghchi's feeling is still hurt and mad, he should blame first the Shah Muhammad ll and that Governor of town Otrar. They were the ones to blame for all the pain and suffering of the Persian people!  The "worst slaughterer", you said, Mr.Araghchi? We are talking about 13th century situation! Was there any "good slaughterer" at that time? Even in 20th century wars people were killed in millions! I mean, in times where the people were more "civilized" than in 13th century! Stick that in your head!

So, mentioning our King's name in any denigrating tone and meaning is unacceptable and insulting! And the current situation with Iran has nothing to do with us or Genghis Khan. I don't care what the war criminal has said about Genghis Khan, you shouldn't talk ill about him or us. We have been having hard time to survive because we were too weak, and were taken advantage of by other countries. It was also partly due  to the fact that we  could not be united like under Genghis Khan, but times will show that we can grow stronger. 

So, don't be a "scorner" and don't mock us. If you do so, you will be greeted with hate and dislike! And this is not good for a friendly relationship between our two countries, two nations, especially if you represent the country of Iran! So, be aware what you say about our Great King! I hope that this message gets to you. 

Urgently needed: A new UN

 

It's been a while since my last post couple years ago. Sorry for the delay. :) My topic this time is about UN. That's right, the famous and the only United Nations. As you know, the main goals of this organization are international peace and security, dignity and equality on our planet. 

Let's get straight to the point. UN failed to fulfill its goals, and therefore it must be dismantled and replaced  with a new  one. You know why and how it has failed. In case if some people are confused, I want to explain here.

Since the UN established in 1945, there have been 478 wars recorded, as of 2021. As of today, following  major wars are going on:

- between Ukraine and Russia (4 years already)

- Iran and US-Israeli coalition, 

- Myanmar civil war, 

- Israel-Palestine conflict, 

- Sudan's war  

- civil war in Mali. In total it comes to 484. If you divide 484 wars by 81 years (since 1945), that means we have roughly 6 wars every year.  Six wars!

UN was incapable of dealing with all the wars and maintain peace between warring parties. It is amazing that two permanent members of so called Security Council , which consists of 5 permanent members and 10 non-permanent members, namely US and Russia, started a war with Iran and Ukraine. 

Security Council is an important body of the UN and its primary goal is to maintain international peace and security, and is responsible for managing threats to peace, breaches of peace, and acts of aggression. Ironically or more precise, tragically,  two SC members have disregarded the very mission and  purpose of that body and initiated  very bloody wars. 

Russia started a full scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. 4 years of bloody war with hundreds of thousands casualties on both sides. US attacked Iran and threatening to erase the entire civilization there. It killed Iran's main political figures in power, and bombed and destroyed military objects. Before Iran war, USA has  kidnapped Venezuela's President Maduro in a special operation. Kidnapping a foreign leader? Is that allowed?

So, if SC members can commit war crimes and violate international laws, then other countries can follow their example too. China can easily invade Mongolia and nobody can do anything. What can US and Russia say to China? Nothing! China is just following the example of other SC permanent members! The Chinese claim that Mongolia is a "lost" land which "belonged" to them, which is a BS. Just like the Russian says that Ukraine was once "theirs", and they want to take it back.  

We know why any war cannot be stopped by UNSC. Each SC permanent member  has a veto power and if any of them uses that veto, SC cannot make a decision to  stop any wars. That is why this "Veto thing" must be taken away. 

A question arises from all these facts: What is the use of SC then? What is the use of UN? 

The UN was useless when Israel killed 160 school girls in Iran in one strike by bombing a school.   The UN was useless when Israel occupied Gaza and destroyed completely, killing 80 thousand Palestinians, 20 thousand children among them. The list can go on and on.

We should dismantle the current UN and establish a new UN with new rules and regulations. My version is this:

The New UN should have a different SC comprising of 5 member-countries from each continent, elected from the General Assembly.  No veto power. Any resolution of SC must be passed  by majority vote of its members. Simple majority. That way it will be easier to make a resolution to deal with any war or conflict. Any resolution must be  enforced by military or non-military measures. Besides, all nuclear powers must give up their nuclear weapons and destroy them. The world must be a "Nuclear weapon free zone". 

Any country which initiates a war, attacks another country must be punished severely and if necessary, it must be isolated from the world community.  The UN member countries must stop all types of cooperation and contacts with that country.  That warmonger country must be forbidden  to participate in any activities and events locally or worldwide, and every member of the new UN must refuse any type of partnership with that country. 

All economic ties must be cut off and if necessary the UN can  terminate it's membership. The  UN must use its military to stop the war if necessary and  fight that warmonger militarily to destroy it. 

Any country which violates international law, other country's sovereignty and attacks or invades other sovereign country, must understand that the whole world will stand against it and will fight if necessary. This is the only way to stop wars and conflicts, and prevent others from bullying the weaker ones. This is the justice. Rule of jungle should never be allowed to be implemented and practiced, otherwise the world will never see a peace, eventually it  will be destroyed by WW3.