To say that I was astounded is really an understatement. Normally nothing ever really surprises me, because when you are my age – I was born in 1958 – things can get pretty boring. You have seen a lot, and you know what to expect. There are occasional little surprises, but they are really infrequent.

Wednesday morning, this past Wednesday, 3 September 2025, I woke in my bed, very early, say about 6am, here in California. I grab my mobile phone, and check my emails. Normally, I have emails from my friends at Deutsche Bank Research, this is pretty heavy stuff, so I do not look at them right away. I saw an email from the Indian Embassy in Washington. I have been on their mailing list for many years, probably some 10-15 years or so , they inform me of what's going on in India, anything related to India – which I appreciate.

Several years ago, in early 2022, when I was relaunching my media business, I was in touch with the Embassy about an interview with the Indian ambassador. They seemed really interested, but it never did happen. I have always paid close attention to India, they are 1.4 billion people. I am certainly not an expert on India, but my wife and I have been aware of what's going on there since we traveled around India in the mid-1990s. They have a sophisticated space program, and they have some 100 million high IQ Indians. In other words, they cannot be ignored. They are impressive. They work hard, they are serious.

So Wednesday morning I saw an email from my friends at the Embassy. It had an article about Trump's tariffs, about Trump calling India the “Tariff King.” I smiled, and ripped through the article, which was very well written and very brief. It appeared in Newsweek. Its title: Is India a 'Tariff King'? Not Really. Published Aug 31, 2025. I don't read the Newsweek stuff, it is mostly nonsense, but this caught my eye. Its author I had never heard of: Mohan Kumar [former Indian ambassador and now Director General of Jadeja Motwani Institute for American Studies in Delhi].

To be honest, and I usually am honest, I typically do not pay too much attention to what diplomats write, particularly diplomats from “developing” countries. I do not want to be disparaging, but most diplomats are quasi-competent, and they are mostly political bureaucrats. So they are boring, and kind of irrelevant. This article is going to be a little longer than I had wanted.

I said to myself, who is this Mohan Kumar? The article's argument: “these tariffs on us, us Indians, are unfair. We are not tariff maniacs, and anyway we are a developing country, a developing economy.” That's a paraphrase, of course. I smiled, and sent an email to the Embassy and told them I wanted to interview him. But later in the day I decided I would look into this guy, Kumar. Since I knew he was in India I waited until the evening – when he would be waking up. My IT guys are in Rawalpindi, Pakistan: quaidtech.com.

It's some 250 miles, as a bird flies, from Rawalpindi to Delhi. I found to my surprise that he had a web site: ambmokumar.com. It was very clean and orderly. And he had his email address there, along with his mobile. So I sent him an email, and then went to whatsapp and brought him up on my mobile phone. I texted him, he texted back, then he called me. This was about 8:30am in the morning his time, my time 8:30pm. I told him that I was impressed, and mentioned that we should do an interview. He agreed immediately. We set it up for 24 hours later. He wanted questions, and I told him that I would get those questions to him in my morning. He said, "that's fine." I have published below as images the questions.

I did my normal research on him, and found that he was India's ambassador to France, and that he had a PhD from Sciences Po in Paris. Amazing. I was kind of stunned, as I said, I normally do not get too excited about anything. I worked a little hard on the questions, meaning that I was not going to do just an ordinary job on this. You will see my questions below, as I said. They are pretty tough, and I think they are excellent. So we did the interview. I published it at destructivecapital.com.

It was outstanding. I have done some 500 of these interviews since 2002, and this is one of the most interesting, definitely very high quality. It probably ranks among the top 25 interviews I have done. Of course, the problem is I have forgotten many of my important interviews; my interview with Muhammad Aldouri PhD, Saddam Hussein's ambassador at the United Nations, was excellent. My interviews with the founders of Hamas were excellent. There were lots of really good ones, but the Kumar interview does stand out.

Kumar is no longer a high level functionary. He's an academic. So that's promising. What's good about a high level functionary is they have global experience. They have been around. They are not just your ordinary diplomat. Anyway, now I get to the main argument of this article. I apologize that it has taken so long, but I needed to explain the background.

When I was uploading the audio file and publishing the interview, I went over to his web site and checked out his blog. He had written his last post, that morning his time, the 4th. What seems to have happened is that he had gone to my web sites, in particular WAM. So he wrote his blog post on the new world that is being created. It was an unbelievable moment, when I glanced at the article, and it was titled: A new world order in the making? I nearly could not believe it, it was utterly brilliant. I said to myself, hey even I might not have written something like this. Hilarious. You can read it below.

Kumar basically writes that the meetings in Anchorage and Tianjin mean that a new world is taking shape. Of course it does, and everything he writes I agree with. Everyone, any young person “studying” international affairs/international relations, will want to read this very carefully.

The thesis of this article I am writing/publishing today is: the new world is a large step forward for humankind. Not only are we putting the Cold War past us, banishing its habits and ideologies and quasi-madness, but we will agree that all the dreams of the utopians will basically be coming true. That's my thesis. It is a 2-pronged argument:

1+ sovereignty is pretty much finished, at least it is going to be dramatically downsized

2+ wealth that goes to the military will be redirected to human development

It is a huge moment in history: the wealth we spend on military power, projecting military power, is immense, and it is all unproductive to a large degree. That wealth can now go to investment in the human potential, in economic and brain development. So there are 2 themes which come out of this entente between the 3 great powers of the 21st century world. It's going to be an insanely powerful advance for the world, all 8 billion human animals. No one will believe it, when it starts to get under way. They will be speechless. It will be like the Berlin Wall going down, but many times more significant in magnitude.

What is truly bizarre is that it is likely that we will not need a lot of suffering to get this achievement under way. Well, that's not really true, because there are many many martyrs. There are a million young Slavs dead, because of the stupid war in Ukraine. And there are hundreds of thousands of dead in Gaza, massacred by the Israel government. That's why I say that sovereignty is finished. The Israeli government is criminal, and so is the Ukraine government. There is no justification for this kind of killing. And killing on this scale. I have argued who is behind this killing. Yes, we all know who it is. Pale of Settlement. The Pale of Settlement just never gives up its menacing destruction of civilization.

Feudal society in Western Europe was destroyed by the Black Death, in the mid-1400s.

"Yes, the Black Death killed approximately 40% to 60% of Europe's population, with some individual estimates suggesting even higher figures for specific regions. While the '50% mark' is often cited, the exact figures are debated, but it remains a consensus that the pandemic was an unparalleled catastrophe, with millions dying in a short period."

One hundred years later there was a brilliant emergence of brain power in Western Europe. This is the truth, no one talks about it, no one likes to acknowledge it. But it is a fact. This time we appear to be avoiding this kind of suffering. Well, again, there have been many martyrs. So it has not come without a price, a cost.

OK, this is my thesis. I think I can conclude here.

With knowledge, with our technology -- and with my efforts -- we will do what we are destined to do: build a better world, a world based on information and knowledge, on science.

It seems that Donald Trump very much regrets not going to Tianjin. We all know who told him not to go. “The Wailing Wall dudes.” “America First!” What “American First” really means is: “Israel First” – and everyone appears to be recognizing this truth. Finally, they are recognizing the truth.