Painting the eyes of war on the Buddha.
In many traditions, when you paint or sculpt a Buddha, the eyes are the very last to be painted. It’s only after the eyes have been completed that the sculpture is fully alive and empowered.
The US has just approved a $75 million weapons package to Taiwan province involving the sale of the Link 16 communications system.
The acquisition of Link 16 is analogous to “painting the eyes on the Buddha”: a last touch, it makes Taiwan’s military systems and weapons platforms live and far-seeing. It confers deadly powers, or more prosaically, in the words of the US military, it completes Taiwan as the final, lethal link of the multilateral coalition kill chain against China.
uh huh. like china gives a shit. when it decides to take over taiwan, it just will. we can either ww3 over it or not. im hoping not.
It’s actually Daruma they paint the eyes an. He was the monk who brought Zen to Japan from China… not to distract from the seriousness of this post however
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“it would signal that the Biden administration is as serious and unwavering in its desire to provoke and wage large-scale war with China”
Sure… because -as we all know- giving countries threatened the tools to defend themselves is the real aggression.
Welcome to the average tankie’s upside-down world…
Taiwan would have to be a country first.
Slava taiwan!
