Russia Empire Is Over So is Ukraine

There’s a famous novel in Chinese speaking areas called Three Kingdoms, this book was about stories at end of Han Empire. Even romantic Japanese made it into many games, but the real story is far more miserable. In year 156 AD before this era started, there were over 50 million registered populations, in year 265 AD, this number is around 7.5 million. Poets in that era used their poems to describe the miserable situations:

「馬前懸人頭，車後載婦女」

"Heads hang before the horses, women are carried behind the carts."

「白骨露於野，千里無雞鳴，生民百餘一，念之斷人腸」

"White bones are exposed in the wilderness, for a thousand miles no rooster crows, of the living people only one in a hundred remains, thinking of it breaks the heart."

In the end of the Han Empire, the power began to transfer from the emperor and empire central government to warlords. The royalists nobles could use some Machiavelli conspiracies to cause the conflicts between different warlords such as Dong Zhuo and Lv Bu, but they couldn’t recover the power and credibility back to the emperor and government. There were some loyalist warlords in the beginning, who didn’t plan to become emperor themselves. But as time went by, they bagan to develop conflicts between themselves and began to fight with each other intead of fighting with anti-emperor rebels or warlords. And their united front collapsed and poweful warlords such as Cao Cao, Yuan Shao, Sun Quan, Bei Liu, etc began to take the power. And there were numous battles between them. And most of the population losses actually didn’t happen in the battles directly but died from the interruption of food production and trade routes and bandits and hunger.

After we know what happened in China region empire in history. Now let’s check the current situation in Russia. In the beginning of the Ukraine War, Putin and Russia Empire central government have lost all their elite military forces and veterans who had real battle experiences. The central Russia empire government doesn’t have bagrgins to control those powerful oligarchs in Russia. We have to remember that Putin regime is not Stalin or Hitler regimes when Stalin and Hitler had absolute powers. Putin was only a samll PGU officer, he became the empire emperor with the support from his oligarchs group such as Patrushev. Thus even Putin is the emperor, he doesn’t have the control over those oligarchs. He could only balance between them, but we can see the power struggles between none-USSR establishment oligarch Prigozhin and USSR establishment oligarch Shoigu, Putin no longer has the control over them. Even later he assasinated Prigozhin successfully, yet he even was not able to appoint his own people as their new leadership. The power is still in the hands of Prigozhin’s son. Also, just as in Han Empire in China regions, as the central government becomes weaker, oligarch groups have the priority over the local draft soldiers and taxitions. The best soldiers would rather become the private militias for those powerful oligarchs because of much better compensations, thus we can see Russia troops could only draft old and weak soldiers and had to hire North Korean, central Asians, Chechens and African troops to fight for them. Also, central government no longer could get the taxes from those oligarchs either. And in the same time, power struggles inside Putin regime becomes more intense. Dyumin and Sobyanin seems to be the most promising ones. But according to the history experiences in china empire, those famous ones are not the ones could laugh until the end. The orligarchs who have the regional control over important areas should be the ones who will become the new rulers. There will be wars over the Euro-Asia continents. Just as the Han Empire, Russian people will suffer enormously. But unlike china which is the “Depression of Civilizations” as Liu Zhongjing decribes, Russian warlords won’t easily use nuclear weapons against each other.

Then how about Ukraine? It will be the same, because even their belongs and ideologies now are different, but no matter Ukrainian and Russians are pan-russian civilizations. Both don’t have much differences by essence. Chinese have a racist nickname for Russians - 毛子 which means Hairy Ones, and they also called Ukrainians - 二毛子 meaning Second Hariy Ones. More importantly, even if both had some differences in Czar Russian Empire, after Soviet Union, the communism had forged both orligarchs have the same behavior patterns. All of them started from similar positions as factoory management of Soviet Union. Under Communism system, if you were honest factory manager, you would never get your raw materials and equipment on time. Thus those sneaky ones would use the resources they owned such as industry alcohol to make voltka and used them to bribe their peers in other factories and department as well as their upper management. Thus they could be promoted, but as you can imagine, they could offend others or be envied, thus they had to organize their own gangsters to protect themselves and their factories. That’s how those oligarchs in former communist nations got their statue and wealths. no matter Russian ones or Ukrainian ones. The irony is that because they were so alike to each other, they began to develop conflicts esp in East Ukraine regions and that’s how the war began to develop. In the beginning, there were just conflcts between different gangs, but later it developed into conflicts between different nations. There’s no other explanations except for the wills of God. Now even Zelenski looks like a strong man, but just like Putin, he doesn’t have control over the warlords in Ukraine either. Ukraine warlords such as Azov Battalian recruits soldiers and collect money from all over the world. They don’t need central government either. Besides, now Zelenski has showed his real face and offended at least half of Americans. The other half of Americans and Europeans Zelenski and his buddies had hoped for, now will face the after-globalization era. They won’t have resources for Ukraine. China won’t either, they have to use all their leftover resources on the invasion to Taiwan when there won’t be no new income from global trades anymore.

Both Russia Russians and Ukraine Russians have forgotten that the most miserable days for pan-russians were not invaded by any European nations but by Tartars. At the time, there was a Jewish businessman who visited Istanbel, and he was shocked by endless white slaves he saw. “are there still any Russians left? “ He asked himself. Now the same future is awaiting for pan-russians. As Russia is losing its control over Caucasiae as well as Middle and West Asia where there are hge amount of unemployed young Musilms, ISIS power will definately rise from those regions. And the wars will be between Russian and Ukrain warlords, Russian and Tuvan warlords, Russian and Muslim warlords, different Muslim warlords, etc. The whole Eurasian Steppe will be bloodbath.

So how did both Russia and Ukraine fall into today’s situation? That’s simple, because of China. Basically, China wants to invade Taiwan, so they want to distract United States and western powers from East Asia. Thus when Putin visited China before the invasion in 2020, Xi must have promised Putin that China would have full support to Russia, as Hitler had promised Stalin they would not invade Soviet Union. But Xi didn’t tell Putin that Xi had not completed war preparations himself. Since so called Open Reform age in 1980s, China had transferred its own defense industry factiroes to civilian factories for most part. China is just like North Korea and Soviet Union, which could make tens of millions low end military equipment such as guns and ammos and cannons. But after open reform, they moved to modern western defense industry. Now they don’t have either the quantity as North Korea, nor advanced weapons as western nations, that’s why Russia had to import ammos from North Korea, simply because China cannot provide the quantiy and same Soviet Union quality ammos. And China’s oligarchs are much worse than Russian ones, that’s why their type96 tank would lose wheel during the tank competition and their trucks found by Russians are trash. Also, China doesn’t really want Russia end this war soon, they want extend the Ukraine war to distract US attention from Asia as long time as possble. That’s also the reason why they had Hamas attack Israel in October 7th, because if US needs to put one or two carrier strike groups in Europe and another two in Middle East, then US won’t have enough carrier strike groups in East Asia anymore. And that’s what China wants. Thus China won’t and can’t support Russia in full. But Russia has jumped into the pit already.

But are Russians and Ukrainians innocent and not deserve this miserable fate awaiting? Well, remember that Ukraine and Russia have been the two largest entities which export their military technologies to china empire. Ukraine sold not only individual weapons but more importantly the whole product line and related designs such as aircraft carrier, Su-33 aircraft carrier fighter, UGT-25000 Turbine, tank engine, missiles, Zubr-class LCAC, Il-78, etc. We can say that the whole backbone of China military was built upon Ukraine technologies. Had Ukraine not sold those military technologies to China and supported its ambitions against Taiwan. Then today China wouldn’t have the courage to support Russia even verbally. And Putin wouldn’t have had the courage to invade Ukraine. And Russia also supplied china empire with S-300, Su-27/Su-30, S-400, Sovremenny class destroyer, etc.

And will china outwit everyone else? Well, nobody else on earth will have the same miserable fate as china and chinese. The reason china was not conquered by middle and west Asia Muslims were the protection from Russia. Russia empire elites are very clear that the threats from china fellahs to Russia are much less than Muslim empire. For the past hundreds years, Russia has been suppressing Muslims and uphold china and chinese. And it were western powers and Japan helped china stay independance from Russia, now china set up russia into destructions, also destroyed the western order which has been protecting them. Thus, nobody could protect them from the coming Muslim conquerers. Had not china supplied Taliban with money and possible information and expel American troops from Afganistan airports, American troops could bomb ISIS from there. Now since Americans troops have left and their military bases are so far away from Middle Asia, ISIS must will move to Middle Asia and china is the easiest target. In fact, china in history has done this over and over again, they allied with Jin Empire and eliminated Niao Empire and after that, they were conquered by Jin Empire. Then lhundreds of years later, they allied with Mongols and eliminated Jin Empire and then conquered by Mongols. Every time, china will ally with more dangerous enemy and against the lesser threat. The latest case was they allied with Soviets and against Japan Empire and gave themselves to the hands of commies. Liu Zhongjing wants to divide china empire into different states as in the rest of the world. So even if ISIS conquered china in the future, they would face the resistances from different nations. But his idea so far is not welcomed by chinese. I just hope our Bashu regions could get the independence and survived.

The end is near and be repent!

The fundamental difference of Christian or not

The current Christian world is facing a deep crisis. As we can see in recent years, many Christian churches in western world, have conceded to the secular world. For example, United Methodist church [1] in United States have brought into women as pastors and admitted homosesual instead of condemning this abornormality. prebysterian church [2] in United States also conceded and even worse. But if we ever know someone in those churches, we have to admit that those Christians are just normal Americans, who have the basic or even higher moral displines. So what has went wrong? Why they began to pursue ‘nice’ instead of faith on the road of Christian?

In order to answer this question, we have to go back to the Holy Bible scriptures as well as the original Christian traditions.

He said to him,* “You shall love the Lord, your God, with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the greatest and the first commandment. The second is like it:* You shall love your neighbor as yourself. The whole law and the prophets depend on these two commandments. Matthew 22 37:39 [3]

Here Jesus clearly mentioned the both most important cores for any Christians. We need to love God as the priority and love our neighbors. If we studied the church history, when Christian churches such as Catholic churches thrived, they were practising those two cores. For example, at the late Roman Empire, Catholics would go to the streets and save those abandoned babies and took care of them. Actually, even if we observe those successul other religious groups outside of Christians, for example, traditional Japanese/Shinto believers or traditional Muslim groups, we can also find they had followed those doctrines by Jesus among their own communities. Of course, as Christians, we have to follow Jesus and God and Holy Spirity Trinity. But we can see Jesus teaching also applies to other worships and groups. This is actually the evidence that Jesus is God, because we cannot see the reverse principles from other religions. Only the real creator, the One, could speak such truth on general principles.

Notice here Jesus doesn’t say “Love human as yourself” as later some distorted Bible versions changed to. He specifically says, love neighbors. But why? Why Jesus asks us love our neighbors instead of love human beings. What are the differences between the two? And why we cannot love human beings? I believe this is where the modern western Christians have gone wrong. Why we cannot love human beings? Well, first of all, human beings are sinners and we even as Christians are humans but not God. Only Jesus can forive the sins, as mortals, we don’t owe the divine ability to forgive sins, that is the power belongs to God. This is a concept which is very hard for westerns from traditional western society to understand. Because they came from the society which heavily limited and restricted by Christian faith. So they have no idea what evils and sinister things human beings can do because of the Christian faith protections. Many Westerner if they have read so far will question my last statement. But I have an example:

So when Catholic Christian missionaries Ludovico Buglio (1606–1682) and Gabriel de Magalhães (1610–1677), first came to my home nation area Basu - Szechuan and Chungking at the end of Ming Dynasty in year 1640 [4], they met the Chinese warlord Zhang Xianzhong in Chengtu. They documented what sins Zhang had done to my Szchuanese ancesters. One time, Zhang announced that he would restore public civilians examination which was the traditional way to elect government officials in Confucious influenced culture areas such as pan-China regions and Korea and Vietnam. Intellectuals across Szhuchan believed Zhang and came to Chengtu to attend this so called election. Zhang’s military led those testers for military to a playground and used hundreds of scared horses to stamp upon on those military testers and crushed them into ground meats. As for none military testers, Zhang lead them to a door and one student entered and was taken to be killed and threw into the river. He also designed some other games to kill, for example, set up a cord and all the students who were higher than the cord were killed. Among tens of thousands students, only two were shorter than the cord. And of of them was Ouyang Zhi who later wrote the book Record of Warnings to Szechuan. And Zhang Xianzong was very cruel, the details of his crimes will be like the darkness which Gandalf saw under the Misty Mountain that even talked about it will overshaw the sunny days. And Zhang did numerous such terrible crimes to my home nation areas, before he came to Szechuan and Chungking, there lived more than 4 million registered household populations, the real populations should be more than that. But after Zhang Xianzhong delude, there were only around 100,000 household registered people left. And in Szchuan and Chungking, there were so many tigers who dared to wander around streets in the day time. With God’s blessings, both misiionaries have escaped unhurt, but all the local baptized Catholics were murdered. And when Zhang conducted the massacre in Chengtu, he even put both Catholic missionaries on each of the gate of the city and let them wacth on live the on-going massacres. Both missinaries cired ane even kwotou which actually against Christian faith to Zhang and plead for his mercy but Zhang refused and almost killed all the people in Chengtu. They wrote a book on their experiences called 聖教入川記 The Recording on Holy Catholic entered Szechuan, but for some reason, this book was not published until 1918 after 20 years of the Boxer Rebellion. One important thing I want to mention, Zhang is not a maniac, he talked to Catholic missinaries and learnt about Jesus teachings and western world, and he agreed that Jesus teachings are good and western world was good. His excuse was Szechuanese were so bad that they were not able to change without killings. Noticing that Zhang didn’t have the concept of neighbor but Basu people as a whole.

So now, back to my previous point, except for Jesus Christ, who else on earth can declare he could love sinners like Zhang Xianzhong? And Zhang Xianzhong like persons and crimes are very often in China history not just once in history. So the argument that Zhang was just possesed by demons can’t stand the ground. And this theory cannot explain that even possesions happen around the world and everyday but why only did some damages in China areas. Japan or Korea or Vietnam were not Christian societies and had similar cultures, not none of them had such terrible crimes, so not being the Christian society is not the excuse either. Anyone who is honest has to admit that sin is part of human beings and some sins are so terrible that none of us execpt God can forgive them. Forgiving sins is the prvilleges only God has which is the same as loving sinners.

And the loving human beings false teaching could also result in another consequence. One day they will see all people are the same and let bad people abuse their love and compassions. The other day, if some honest people like me point out the falsehood, they will turn 180 degrees and hate all people who came from China areas or speak Chinese as language. They have changed their moral values according to a replacement of modern ideology which is humanism instead of our lord’s teaching. And this is very dangerous and disturbing. Recognizing oneself as God is the most dangeours thing mortals can do. And when we use our limited resources on abstract ideas or concepts, we will ignore our neighbors who are in our real life and ignore their real pains and sufferings. And after we abandoned them, and our communities will disresolve as the current US and UK and other western societies are facing. This explains why UK elites intentionally ignored the large scale of rape on poor British white girls. [5] Noticing when those muslim rapists conducted those terrible crimes on Britishes, they did not conduct the same crimes to those young Muslim girls in their own immigration societies. they actually still have the neighbor concept inside of their own society so far. That’s why Muslim societies have kept on growing in UK and Europe.

We need to go back to those most important fundations as Christians as Jesus teaches us.

Book review on Python Distilled

As an engineer who regularly will use Python for daily job, I was looking for a book which could help me move from a Python beginner to intermediate Python developer. Such topics includes but not limited to the following:

• how to understand Objects deeply
• what are the meanings of different arguments types
• how to do error handling, what is Decorator
• what is Generator
• what is lambda Expression
• how to better under Modules and Packages
• how to do complex Input and Output

Yes, many of those topics have been addressed by some excellent YouTube videos such as Corey Schafer, but they are not systematically, at least for myself. So I did a lot of Googling as well as reading Amazon reviews to find the book could satisfy my needs. According to my investigation, those candidates are:

• Pydon’ts – Write elegant Python code
• Beyond the Basic Stuff with Python
• Intermediate Python
• Python Cookbook: Recipes for Mastering Python 3
• Fluent Python: Clear, Concise, and Effective Programming

Some of those authors are very good, they provided free e-books. Some of them have the contents for what I need, but they are very thick such as Python Cookbook and Fluent Python. What I need is a book which can also cover all those important topics while not too length so I could finish it :) After some extensive researches, I finally landed my eyes on this book Python Distilled. For me, it covers all the important topics I need while keep its lenthy not too scary.

And this book didn’t disappoint me. It does cover all the topics I really concern. And indeed as its name, this book controls its ilustration as dry as possible, but still have good examples so the readers can understand those concepts. For example, here’s the explanation for First-Class Objects:

Then the author gave a short but good example:

// For example, here is a simple dictionary containing two values:

items = {
    'number' : 42
    'text' : "Hello World"
}

// The first-class nature of objects can be seen by adding some more unusual items to this dictionary:
items['func'] = abs
import math
items['mod'] = math

Another thing I like this book is that in the last chapter Chapter 10, it provides all the Python Build-in Functions, all built-in Exceptions and all Python Standard Libraries so far. This can be used as dictionary or reference and gives the readers who are new to Python a general picture of all the tools we can use. After getting more familiar with those fundamental tools, new Python users will easier to move to the other tools as well.

Some errors

This is a great book, but I also found some errors from it.

In page 250, Section 9.3, the author gave the following example:

format(x, ‘<10.2f>’) # ‘123.46***’

The correct form should be:

format(x, ‘*<10.2f>’)

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