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Globalism must not merely be defeated. It must be slowly and brutally tortured to an excruciating end and it's leadership thrown into Tartarus for eternity. Epic poems must be written of their evils and inevitable downfall, carved into the surface of the moon so that all subsequent generations can heed the warning.

Utter anhilation.

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Thanks for the link.

Alex: Globalism... neoliberalism... that's imperialism?

Alexander: Yes it is. Clinton, Bush, Obama... yeah, you could even argue four years of Biden.

Alex: That was imperialism?

Alexander: Absolutely. I mean what it is was failed imperialism. It is imperialism that was pushed back for the first time by China and Russia and the multipolar world.

The point about globalism and neocon-ism is that it basically treats the entire world as an American sphere of influence, even as it demands that [other] great powers subordinate themselves to the one, the only, real great power, which is of course: the United States, the international hegemon.

I mean, you have the most extreme statement of this position by John Bolton when he was George W Bush's ambassador to the United Nations. He actually once went and said [approximately] "I'm here in the UN Security Council; I think the UN Security Council should only have one state represented on it, which is mine, the United States, because no other state really deserves to be here."

That that was an imperialism (ultimately) that went mad and which was disastrous and which failed and which ultimately overstretched and exhausted the United States.

Trump is saying [approximately] "we can't do that, this doesn't make any kind of sense, let's focus on American priorities, let's draw back, consolidate, look at what is important to us."

And as I said, previous generations of American leaders would have understood this.

Alex: You called it retrenchment, that's what freaking them out, that's what freaks out the Wall Street Journal, retrenchment, because they've been doing really, really well off of the imperialism.

Alexander: Precisely, and they try to brand "spheres of influence" as imperialism, but in fact it's their globalist model, their globalist ideology that is the real imperialism.

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