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.
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.
Just read bits of it since it is really long but in general it reads like so much other internet fodder about how everything is either globalist or controlled-opposition. Bits of what he predicts may turn out to be true. Of course I don't know what Trump will do, or be successful at achieving, but I do think he's (generally speaking) an anti-globalist. I don't think he's particularly ideological actually.
Globalists have made so much money off of offshoring and financial speculation -- and their operations are structured around this system -- that they are ideologically committed. He was never crazy about offshoring and he's instinctively a nativist. Look at how fast he dropped that idiot scammer Ramaswamy the minute he started shitting on Americans.
Trump doesn't want infinite immigration and he is trying to reindustrialize the US. How far will he go to limit the mass Indian import program? Well all he has to do is look north to Canada to see how it worked out for them.
We'll see how far he goes but remember he has one term, he's an old man, and he wants his legacy to be a strong nation leading to Vance's victory in 2028. We'll see.
We have a deeply centralized and concentrated national political economy and the powerful special interest groups who dominate its center are dependent on the structures of capital "G" Globalism, so I wouldnt expect much action in getting rid of it other than to just change some of its features but not the ones that really matter UNLESS they think they have to turn inward, in but them maintaining their status with a mostly just domestic set up would require an extremely extractive domestic economy....
The fact is globalism, as practiced by the US oligarchy, is under serious threat. If Trump raises tariffs on imports from China in order to protect the rebuilding of US industry - which I believe many US oligarchs can be persuaded is in our interest - it's done.
Additionally, the military hegemonic aspect of US-centered globalism is already dead with the loss of the Ukraine war to Russia and our inability to protect shipping in the Red Sea against a bunch of Houthi missiles. Without military dominance US globalist hegemony is done.
Mearsheimer's pose is as a "realist". He prides himself on it. This blinds him to a lot of potentialities because realism is just another word for refusing to think creatively.
And his concern isn't the well-being and freedom of any people. He's a geopolitics guy and everything is a game of Risk. His assumption there will inevitably be a massive war with China/Russia is 20th century thinking that hasn't fully absorbed the realities of nuclear hypersonic missiles and ICBMs.
Leaders used to go to war for fun and conquest. They enjoyed it. Now that their own asses will be on the line if they push too far we live in a very different world. Mearsheimer doesn't want to stop playing his great game so he ignores that fact.
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.
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.
The Duran should be required watching for every world leader.
Now where's Trophy Husband with his plus size brain to chime in?
What are your thoughts on this: https://open.substack.com/pub/neofeudalreview/p/fools-gold-how-trumps-populist-return
Just read bits of it since it is really long but in general it reads like so much other internet fodder about how everything is either globalist or controlled-opposition. Bits of what he predicts may turn out to be true. Of course I don't know what Trump will do, or be successful at achieving, but I do think he's (generally speaking) an anti-globalist. I don't think he's particularly ideological actually.
Globalists have made so much money off of offshoring and financial speculation -- and their operations are structured around this system -- that they are ideologically committed. He was never crazy about offshoring and he's instinctively a nativist. Look at how fast he dropped that idiot scammer Ramaswamy the minute he started shitting on Americans.
Trump doesn't want infinite immigration and he is trying to reindustrialize the US. How far will he go to limit the mass Indian import program? Well all he has to do is look north to Canada to see how it worked out for them.
We'll see how far he goes but remember he has one term, he's an old man, and he wants his legacy to be a strong nation leading to Vance's victory in 2028. We'll see.
We have a deeply centralized and concentrated national political economy and the powerful special interest groups who dominate its center are dependent on the structures of capital "G" Globalism, so I wouldnt expect much action in getting rid of it other than to just change some of its features but not the ones that really matter UNLESS they think they have to turn inward, in but them maintaining their status with a mostly just domestic set up would require an extremely extractive domestic economy....
The fact is globalism, as practiced by the US oligarchy, is under serious threat. If Trump raises tariffs on imports from China in order to protect the rebuilding of US industry - which I believe many US oligarchs can be persuaded is in our interest - it's done.
Additionally, the military hegemonic aspect of US-centered globalism is already dead with the loss of the Ukraine war to Russia and our inability to protect shipping in the Red Sea against a bunch of Houthi missiles. Without military dominance US globalist hegemony is done.
Switch China 🇨🇳 Dragon 🐉 out for fallen American Eagle 🦅 and that’s what they think- and absent geography and nuclear weapons they’d be right.
But they’re wrong-
(Reference world picture)
Mearsheimer's pose is as a "realist". He prides himself on it. This blinds him to a lot of potentialities because realism is just another word for refusing to think creatively.
And his concern isn't the well-being and freedom of any people. He's a geopolitics guy and everything is a game of Risk. His assumption there will inevitably be a massive war with China/Russia is 20th century thinking that hasn't fully absorbed the realities of nuclear hypersonic missiles and ICBMs.
Leaders used to go to war for fun and conquest. They enjoyed it. Now that their own asses will be on the line if they push too far we live in a very different world. Mearsheimer doesn't want to stop playing his great game so he ignores that fact.