Syrian Collapse Reverberates in China, Post-Liberalism and the Merging of State and Economy, European Pessimism/US Declinism, Frankfurt School in Napoli, Kickboy Face
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You do realise, I hope, that Europe's Muslims will be used as a proxy force against European countries that might have any ideas about leaving the American reservation.
The US isn’t the Brits. Whatever the British did, until Blair they did it for England. The Puritan disease of New England and Globo-Hominids had to cross over in the form of YT trash genius Bill Clinton into The Blair.
The good news is whatever happens that’s all over.
The present UK “government” will fall to Heaven and Hell knows not what but it will when it’s moment comes fold like Assad. *
*Assad’s army didn’t fight because it wasn’t there, it was sent South prior to start of Idlib raids that became offensive that became conquest. This is probably how Kiev will go as well, the last push will begin as raids, which will reveal how rotten the facade is, then a general offensive, then collapse.
That's what worries me. The divorce between the national interests of the US and the current, frenzied strain of Wilsonianism on angel-dust is phenomenally dangerous. And amongst the crazies are the sociopaths who have figured out how to cash in on chaos. Every crisis is an opportunity and crises are breaking out all over.
With you on Starmer. No way anyone is risking their life for the sake of rule by quango. Trying to govern England via a South Asian version of the Arab “street” complete with shariah courts, two-tier policing and politicised courts is incendiary. The ordinary English may yet get their chance, in which case hanging and orderly queing will make a return. Grim but better than a North Atlantic Lebanon.
No one can honestly say what they would do if they were born in a place like Syria. Your cards are dealt at point of conception. Tribe/clan/family are all and history does not care about anyone's feelings. Syria is what it looks like: a horror show enacted amongst ruins rebuilt and ruined again before anything modern became conceivable. 100% resistant to the belief system of US college grads or the experts. My respect to anyone in that country who retains any moral dignity regardless of who they are. I do not expect that there would be too many of them.
Excellent as always - thank you. Dollar not going anywhere anytime soon - Trump's tariffs will result in decreased dollar velocity and therefore reduced supply of Eurodollars for the repayment of growing global dollar denominated debt. Anticipated stimulus in China will create pressure for currency outflows into dollar denominated assets/BTC. Todd also ignores American dynamism as it pertains to tech, the only area where earnings are consistently and materially growing.
I obviously haven't read his new book, but if the review is correct I think Todd is around two or three years behind events already with his declinism.
I love Todd. Have nor read his latest, but I use TurboAmerica to synthesise triumphalism with declinism. The US is pioneering a near dystopian form of capitalism that manages domestic expectations to standards not too far from the better portions of the Third World. This is sustainable only by crushing competition from allies like Europe and Japan, disrupting reindustrialisation in the UK and constraining development in Canada and Australia.
If you can read French, I'd love a detailed account of what he is saying from the perspective of your Turbo American thesis.
BTW on X you stated that you shared the ideals of Stepan Bandera. Given your moderation and ethical realism re the Balkans of that era, I take it that you were winding your readership up.
The United States is on the way to becoming a sort of Brasil, albeit a Brasil with worse weather, less attractive females, and a more hyperbelligerent foreign policy.
Start liking it. This suits people of influence and authority just dandy.
The US just changed hands, is changing course, and Trump is America first, not America taking over the world. Let’s remember the Globalists arrested and then when that failed shot him, that failed too.
True, all true. While I like Trump, was relieved that he won and wish him every conceivable success the fact is that continuity is like a force of nature. Can speak with personal authority on the subject. The word 'reform' must make the Heavens shake with laughter.
My current take is that we will not see a reversal of globalisation, but a re-engineered version of it. Trump seeks to make globalisation palatable to ordinary Americans. In other words, he will consolidate global economic integration. No isolationalism, no autarky, no Fortress America. Trump won with the support of Silicon Valley and a fair slice of the oligarchy....globalists one and all. Trump offers a fairer, cleaner and saner version of Clinton style triangulation.
This is true, these are what is sought. What happens is different.
Continuity is a Force of Nature.
Oh.
Well so is time and they are all very old. And scared. I can hear it in their voices. Trump isn’t, because he’s rather clearly not afraid to die - normal after 70.
However if the attempt to ease the sufferings of Americans fails then we shall see that Thanatos is also a force of nature from knives to nukes and fuck it nukes back down to knives. For if Denied Eros (life) because Globalists (Boomers) are uncomfortable then the next god of nature is Thanatos (slaughter) - who happens to be the Sugar Daddy of Athena, goddess of democracy. She’s a force of nature too, and she’s my personal experience. She’s been summoned. She doesn’t do these tame little Norman Rockwell paintings, despite what has been peddled.
Antiquity is invoked and The Bitch Athena is here to answer. She likes young bucks not old men, I’m pretty sure she’s given Luigi a roll. He earned a good roll.
Forgive me but this personal experience of Continuity for so many is Pax Americana, and it’s over. It’s over.
"Canada is the world's first Post-National State...with no core identity"
-Justin Trudeau, the smug, smarmy, unctuous, platitudinizing Enunciator in Chief, on the eve of bombarding his country with unprecedented milllions of 3rd worlders. He spent a decade doing his best to defame and destroy the cultural/historical legacy of Canada.
I think "ultra-liberalism" is a good fit for the Trudeauian school of nation-destroying global homogenization. Trudeauian, because Justin is merely continuing what his .... father began.
I'm cautiously optimistic about Pierre. I think he actually handled the immigration issue tactically: he avoided the issue until the Libs were forced to admit themselves that they fucked up large, and sentiment against mass immigration has grown organically. Up until now it has been the 3rd rail of canadian politics and the whole country was completely brainwashed about it. He needs votes to win the election and gain *power*, and taking a leroy jenkins hardline stance before that happens serves no purpose. We'll see. But compare Pierre to the pathetic Red Tories we've had previously? I have hope
Please don't do anything silly like vote PPC, the right wing equivalent of Jill Stein
Well there are times when a person reveals who they are, and the violation of our rights during the so-called pandemic was one of them. Maxime Bernier spoke out and took the hits. What did Pierre do? Would O'Toole still be leader if not for the Freedom Convoy?
After the experience of 2020-22, I will never vote for establishment approved parties and their mediocre, play-it-safe leadership.
Canadians are so fed up that the only thing Poilievre needs to win the next election is a pulse.
Nobody likes USD reserve other than Americans. (Some US business do not either). Typically in military domain states balance against threats. In the economic warfare domain BRICS is merely the beginning of a counter balancing coalition with no real ability to change the economic (USD reserve) balance yet. It's the start of a very long process that may or may not culminate in change.
The US is overstretched it is wasting scarce weapons in strategically irrelevant theatres that do not affect its security or its hegemony. Its only real rival is doing no such thing. If it intends to defeat a state that dwarfs it's manufacturing capabilities it must prioritize theatres and not pray ETIM or other proxies help them.
Believe it or not hegemony allows retards to formulate policy. The belief in omnipotence runs the very real risk of hubris meeting nemesis.
It is highly unlikely the same policies will continue, neither Trump nor his deep bench of Cadres he’s assembled are interested in Globo Liberalism, nor war, and the primary focus is properly domestic. This includes industrial rebuilding and defense industrial base.
As for the USD as reserve currency- this is a terrible inflationary strain on the people, the MAGA voters are hostile towards inflation and very hostile to more war - they fight the wars.
I always enjoy these Saturday commentaries when I have the time to read them! Like you I am still bullish on America long term; love the expression turbo America! But to get there we have to get past the nut zero nonsense, reduce corruption and empire building, control immigration, have mutually beneficial relationships with Europe and Russia etc. Much to be done.
Dude I remember that Claude guy and the punk magazine Slash and Rough Trade! Man I am getting old. Merry Christmas to all! 🌲🎄🎁🎊
You chose the perfect word: "machinery". The Canadian Liberal Party is known as "The Big Red Machine" in that it is both Canada's natural ruling party and a very corrupt cartel as well. Trudeau Jr. at first presented an attractive and modern face for the Big Red Machine to use to get back into power after being left out in the wilderness for years and years.
Political parties are always to a certain extent machines. But in the past the leaders had some history that gave them credibility and knowledge as a leader. Leaders on the left often had worked in some trade union while those on the right often had some business background.
Trudeau is part of a wave of leaders who are young and good looking but intellectually featherweights. Think of Macron, Tony Blair, Rutte, Kallas, Clinton and Obama. Their track record doesn't qualify them for the top job, yet the press presents them as the face of the future. It is hard not to see them as front men for hidden powers.
Of course europe is in decline. However, persons of influence and authority i n and out of europe are not affected, their personal fortunes will do just fine, and they are the only ones who matter.
Decline is definitely preferred to the kind of dynamism that brings replacement elites to the fore. Lampedusa's THE LEOPARD has a great deal of relevance for today's leaders. America goes the way of Brazil, Europe Sicily under the Borboni.
This was great, thank you! As the author noted, the post liberalism piece draws a lot on this review by Christopher Caldwell. His analysis is of “governance” in the American domestic context. Very much worth reading
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Such a classic clip from Claude Bessy!
A figment of the imagination of lame cunts!
I recently did an event in Brussels, and I began my speaking segment by paraphrasing Bessy.
You do realise, I hope, that Europe's Muslims will be used as a proxy force against European countries that might have any ideas about leaving the American reservation.
Muslims have already been used to target certain countries/peoples.
The Brits developed expertise in this in the 19th century. The US began doing so after WW2.
BTW, I'm gonna need one more day to finish off the Syria essay. Apologies.
Never rush anything that you intend to publish. No apologies needed.
The US isn’t the Brits. Whatever the British did, until Blair they did it for England. The Puritan disease of New England and Globo-Hominids had to cross over in the form of YT trash genius Bill Clinton into The Blair.
The good news is whatever happens that’s all over.
The present UK “government” will fall to Heaven and Hell knows not what but it will when it’s moment comes fold like Assad. *
*Assad’s army didn’t fight because it wasn’t there, it was sent South prior to start of Idlib raids that became offensive that became conquest. This is probably how Kiev will go as well, the last push will begin as raids, which will reveal how rotten the facade is, then a general offensive, then collapse.
That's what worries me. The divorce between the national interests of the US and the current, frenzied strain of Wilsonianism on angel-dust is phenomenally dangerous. And amongst the crazies are the sociopaths who have figured out how to cash in on chaos. Every crisis is an opportunity and crises are breaking out all over.
With you on Starmer. No way anyone is risking their life for the sake of rule by quango. Trying to govern England via a South Asian version of the Arab “street” complete with shariah courts, two-tier policing and politicised courts is incendiary. The ordinary English may yet get their chance, in which case hanging and orderly queing will make a return. Grim but better than a North Atlantic Lebanon.
Merry Christmas 🎄🎁
And Merry Christmas to you too! It is actually very merry today...hot but far from hellish (84.2 fahrenheit). Hopefully an omen for the coming year.
Which is the grudge I take it.
I was there, they needed no urging, nor did they lack just complaint . The Jihadi and the Saudis were their only help for years.
No one can honestly say what they would do if they were born in a place like Syria. Your cards are dealt at point of conception. Tribe/clan/family are all and history does not care about anyone's feelings. Syria is what it looks like: a horror show enacted amongst ruins rebuilt and ruined again before anything modern became conceivable. 100% resistant to the belief system of US college grads or the experts. My respect to anyone in that country who retains any moral dignity regardless of who they are. I do not expect that there would be too many of them.
Syria ain’t Syrian for a long time before Alexander found it.
Excellent as always - thank you. Dollar not going anywhere anytime soon - Trump's tariffs will result in decreased dollar velocity and therefore reduced supply of Eurodollars for the repayment of growing global dollar denominated debt. Anticipated stimulus in China will create pressure for currency outflows into dollar denominated assets/BTC. Todd also ignores American dynamism as it pertains to tech, the only area where earnings are consistently and materially growing.
I obviously haven't read his new book, but if the review is correct I think Todd is around two or three years behind events already with his declinism.
I love Todd. Have nor read his latest, but I use TurboAmerica to synthesise triumphalism with declinism. The US is pioneering a near dystopian form of capitalism that manages domestic expectations to standards not too far from the better portions of the Third World. This is sustainable only by crushing competition from allies like Europe and Japan, disrupting reindustrialisation in the UK and constraining development in Canada and Australia.
If you can read French, I'd love a detailed account of what he is saying from the perspective of your Turbo American thesis.
BTW on X you stated that you shared the ideals of Stepan Bandera. Given your moderation and ethical realism re the Balkans of that era, I take it that you were winding your readership up.
The United States is on the way to becoming a sort of Brasil, albeit a Brasil with worse weather, less attractive females, and a more hyperbelligerent foreign policy.
Start liking it. This suits people of influence and authority just dandy.
Bingo! This piece explains Brazil in ways that should give any Westerner goose-bumps. I cannot recommend this any higher.
https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2021/05/the-brazilianization-of-the-world/
Excellent piece.
And, sadly, highly relevant. Two track development should horrify us all.
The US just changed hands, is changing course, and Trump is America first, not America taking over the world. Let’s remember the Globalists arrested and then when that failed shot him, that failed too.
True, all true. While I like Trump, was relieved that he won and wish him every conceivable success the fact is that continuity is like a force of nature. Can speak with personal authority on the subject. The word 'reform' must make the Heavens shake with laughter.
My current take is that we will not see a reversal of globalisation, but a re-engineered version of it. Trump seeks to make globalisation palatable to ordinary Americans. In other words, he will consolidate global economic integration. No isolationalism, no autarky, no Fortress America. Trump won with the support of Silicon Valley and a fair slice of the oligarchy....globalists one and all. Trump offers a fairer, cleaner and saner version of Clinton style triangulation.
This is true, these are what is sought. What happens is different.
Continuity is a Force of Nature.
Oh.
Well so is time and they are all very old. And scared. I can hear it in their voices. Trump isn’t, because he’s rather clearly not afraid to die - normal after 70.
However if the attempt to ease the sufferings of Americans fails then we shall see that Thanatos is also a force of nature from knives to nukes and fuck it nukes back down to knives. For if Denied Eros (life) because Globalists (Boomers) are uncomfortable then the next god of nature is Thanatos (slaughter) - who happens to be the Sugar Daddy of Athena, goddess of democracy. She’s a force of nature too, and she’s my personal experience. She’s been summoned. She doesn’t do these tame little Norman Rockwell paintings, despite what has been peddled.
Antiquity is invoked and The Bitch Athena is here to answer. She likes young bucks not old men, I’m pretty sure she’s given Luigi a roll. He earned a good roll.
Forgive me but this personal experience of Continuity for so many is Pax Americana, and it’s over. It’s over.
What happens? We’ll see.
It ain’t continuity.
Great SCR. Can't wait till your piece on Syria comes out. So far the commentary on offer elsewhere is painfully dumb.
"Canada is the world's first Post-National State...with no core identity"
-Justin Trudeau, the smug, smarmy, unctuous, platitudinizing Enunciator in Chief, on the eve of bombarding his country with unprecedented milllions of 3rd worlders. He spent a decade doing his best to defame and destroy the cultural/historical legacy of Canada.
I think "ultra-liberalism" is a good fit for the Trudeauian school of nation-destroying global homogenization. Trudeauian, because Justin is merely continuing what his .... father began.
And soon the baton will be passed to a mouse named Poilievre.
I'm cautiously optimistic about Pierre. I think he actually handled the immigration issue tactically: he avoided the issue until the Libs were forced to admit themselves that they fucked up large, and sentiment against mass immigration has grown organically. Up until now it has been the 3rd rail of canadian politics and the whole country was completely brainwashed about it. He needs votes to win the election and gain *power*, and taking a leroy jenkins hardline stance before that happens serves no purpose. We'll see. But compare Pierre to the pathetic Red Tories we've had previously? I have hope
Please don't do anything silly like vote PPC, the right wing equivalent of Jill Stein
Well there are times when a person reveals who they are, and the violation of our rights during the so-called pandemic was one of them. Maxime Bernier spoke out and took the hits. What did Pierre do? Would O'Toole still be leader if not for the Freedom Convoy?
After the experience of 2020-22, I will never vote for establishment approved parties and their mediocre, play-it-safe leadership.
Canadians are so fed up that the only thing Poilievre needs to win the next election is a pulse.
That last line about Jill Stein says a lot about your mentality.
Which Father?
He'd likely be in one of the old phone books of Ottawa or Montreal.
It’s Castro lol
PAGING STATE DEPARTMENT TO FUND TTP REBELS FOR XINGJIAN INSURGENCY CAMPAIGN, 2025-2027
Nobody likes USD reserve other than Americans. (Some US business do not either). Typically in military domain states balance against threats. In the economic warfare domain BRICS is merely the beginning of a counter balancing coalition with no real ability to change the economic (USD reserve) balance yet. It's the start of a very long process that may or may not culminate in change.
The US is overstretched it is wasting scarce weapons in strategically irrelevant theatres that do not affect its security or its hegemony. Its only real rival is doing no such thing. If it intends to defeat a state that dwarfs it's manufacturing capabilities it must prioritize theatres and not pray ETIM or other proxies help them.
Believe it or not hegemony allows retards to formulate policy. The belief in omnipotence runs the very real risk of hubris meeting nemesis.
The US just changed hands.
It is highly unlikely the same policies will continue, neither Trump nor his deep bench of Cadres he’s assembled are interested in Globo Liberalism, nor war, and the primary focus is properly domestic. This includes industrial rebuilding and defense industrial base.
Shots fired.
18theses.com
As for the USD as reserve currency- this is a terrible inflationary strain on the people, the MAGA voters are hostile towards inflation and very hostile to more war - they fight the wars.
There's more to what happened in Syria and is happening in Ukraine.
Russia is pretending to be an enemy, like in 1984 with the warring 3 governments.
https://slavlandchronicles.substack.com/p/was-it-a-russian-intelligence-failure
Nothing on the drones? Damn it.
I always enjoy these Saturday commentaries when I have the time to read them! Like you I am still bullish on America long term; love the expression turbo America! But to get there we have to get past the nut zero nonsense, reduce corruption and empire building, control immigration, have mutually beneficial relationships with Europe and Russia etc. Much to be done.
Dude I remember that Claude guy and the punk magazine Slash and Rough Trade! Man I am getting old. Merry Christmas to all! 🌲🎄🎁🎊
Merry Christmas!
Will the Egyptian hobbit Sisi be the next to fall?
Egypt definitely does not like what it is seeing in Syria.
The Trudeau phenomenon deserves some real research. How did this even happen? Obviously it is a coup. But what was the machinery behind it?
You chose the perfect word: "machinery". The Canadian Liberal Party is known as "The Big Red Machine" in that it is both Canada's natural ruling party and a very corrupt cartel as well. Trudeau Jr. at first presented an attractive and modern face for the Big Red Machine to use to get back into power after being left out in the wilderness for years and years.
Political parties are always to a certain extent machines. But in the past the leaders had some history that gave them credibility and knowledge as a leader. Leaders on the left often had worked in some trade union while those on the right often had some business background.
Trudeau is part of a wave of leaders who are young and good looking but intellectually featherweights. Think of Macron, Tony Blair, Rutte, Kallas, Clinton and Obama. Their track record doesn't qualify them for the top job, yet the press presents them as the face of the future. It is hard not to see them as front men for hidden powers.
Trudeau Jr.'s brother who died in an avalanche while skiing was supposed to be "the next one". Justin is literally a summer camp drama instructor.
Of course europe is in decline. However, persons of influence and authority i n and out of europe are not affected, their personal fortunes will do just fine, and they are the only ones who matter.
Today. Not tomorrow.
They'll be fine tomorrow as well. Les Miz is just fantasy. The Iron Law Of Oligarchy is not.
Elites who fail , fall and are replaced. That’s Iron too.
Define "fail".
☠️
Well, all us "fail" by that definition.
Decline is definitely preferred to the kind of dynamism that brings replacement elites to the fore. Lampedusa's THE LEOPARD has a great deal of relevance for today's leaders. America goes the way of Brazil, Europe Sicily under the Borboni.
This was great, thank you! As the author noted, the post liberalism piece draws a lot on this review by Christopher Caldwell. His analysis is of “governance” in the American domestic context. Very much worth reading
https://www.firstthings.com/article/2023/10/the-fateful-nineties
Closing out the year strong w/ a solid SCR. Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas, William!