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Tuesday, April 14, 2026

Modi's Vast Rallies


The Spiritual Undercurrents of a Volatile World
The Middle East has for decades been the most volatile part of the world geopolitically. Tensions have been building for a long time. And now things have gone kinetic.
But this is not just geopolitics. A Chinese analyst tried to explain things in infrastructure terms. Israel is a "node," he said. That perspective is so lacking. If you only know the material, you know nothing. You cannot untangle the Middle East, if you skip the spiritual dimension.
You can achieve moral clarity. You can have the courage to act. You can have a mighty military. But that still does not change the fact that wars are messy. Wars are always messy. There is death and destruction. There are civilian casualties. There are unintended consequences, no matter how much gaming, planning, and thinking goes into it.
And it is not like the rest of the world stops just because there is a war. There are more ongoing conflicts today than at any time since the end of World War II. I think it is because the world has become multipolar since 2008, but the institutions to go with that multipolarity have not been built yet.
And then there is the political churn of a large democracy like the United States. Recently we saw the largest protests recorded in US history. And Hungary just happened. Mid-terms in the US are a foregone conclusion. The party in the White House loses. That always happens.
In the sea of war, politics, and tech news, one thing stands out. Modi's vast political rallies in India. I guess I am a people person. Politics is about people. Tech is about people.


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