The Forces Aligned Against Elon Musk, Big Tech Marriage to Arms Industry, Germany's Warmongering Greens, The Canadian "Norman Brigade" in Ukraine, Pancho Villa!
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Regarding the German Greens acting as the proxies for American power, I saw recently (probably Telegram so YMMV) that the various Green parties around the world are members of some sort of policy compact, with the de facto effect that they all serve as one global party. They're a minor party everywhere, but minor parties generally exert at least indirect influence by forcing the larger, politically adjacent parties to adopt some of their policies. So, the Greens act in effect as a vector for globalism to influence national politics around the world in a coordinated fashion. Certainly not the only vector but their role deserves some scrutiny. And of course, one can well imagine that if the Greens started to form governments at the national level, they would immediately start ceding sovereignty to international NGOs at an even faster rate than has already been the case.
May 7, 2022·edited May 7, 2022Liked by Niccolo Soldo
I have read in a number of different places that for things to really change, some portion of the ruling elite must break with the ruling orthodoxy. It is not enough for the resistance to resist, they must also persuade, some meaningful portion of the ruling class need be persuaded that change is necessary. So, our hypothesis is Elon has backers, that is good, that’s the beginning, yes?
What is the resistance against? Wesley Yang calls it “successor ideology” and “authoritarian utopianism”. I say it is the abandonment of common sense, tradition, and the knowledge that has been passed down to us from previous generations,and I say, if we forget, we repeat -“lest we forget”.
The problem with successor ideology is that by abandoning what we have learned in the quest too eliminate all barriers we lose more than we gain. Some barriers are in fact guard rails and provide a margin of safety. The mad rush to counter all power structures, eliminate all barriers leaves us alone and bereft: terrifying aloneness. Why the rush? Why not except that those who came before us have wisdom to teach us? This is religious fever and history is replete with examples of where that leads, so once again, lest we forget.
The German Greens are following a pattern established by Trotskyist and Western Maoist groups in the 20th c. many of which functioned as agents of influence on the Far Left for the CIA.
The upheavals of the 60s anticipate the Colour Revolutions of the post Cold War era. In 1968 French radicals, Marxists at odds with the pro-Moscow Communist Party, helped drive De Gaulle from power.
An extraordinary proportion of the leading figures involved in the Paris upheavals of ‘68 went on to become neo-liberals and enthusiastic supporters of US foreign policy. Coincidence theorists might reasonably infer that this was no accident.
The same is true in the UK. The industrial militancy of the 70s was led in many instances by Trotskyist and Maoist activists as part of a campaign against pro-Moscow rivals. It also helped undermine Harold Wilson whose removal from office was a major priority of the US and UK intelligence services.
Blair’s New Labour was top-heavy with onetime Trotskyists. A few years ago, Peter Hitchens, brother of the late Christopher, outed Tony Blair himself as a onetime Trot.
The Far Left is a great nursery for political talent: the right kind of radicals (those who crave belonging, can stick to the party line no matter what and are desperate for agency) are useful once they have been turned. This is easily done.
The German Greens started out as radicals. Now they are agents of influence for Washington pushing deindustrialisation, compliance with the State Department, social credit via ESG and green-camouflaged crony-capitalism.
That Norman brigade article was fascinating. I knew a lot of the UKR foreign volunteers were green and badly equipped, but that's on another level. Still, Sonnenrad tattoo and enlisting gullible Canadians as human shields for his wife and child? Guy's basically living the dream of the average TRS paywall subscriber.
The Pancho Villa mythology is something you cannot escape as Hispanics grow in population here in the US. He's the namesake of the local more upscale Mexican place in my town for example. Been there enough to pick up they are probably at least partially a money laundering op for Cartel affiliates, so maybe the owners are just being cheeky. Lots of guys showing up to make deliveries at the bar in the between hours middle of lunch and dinner(I work odd hours). Reminds me of Italian types running "business" out of the back of their own ethnic restaurants in the movies.
The Greens have a history of support for both sides. I remember an interview from some major Western newspaper with a high-ranking ex-Soviet intelligence officer after the fall of the USSR in the early 1990s. He openly admitted that the massive demonstrations and riots of 1981/2 due to the deployment of Pershing2 nuclear missiles on the territory of West Germany were heavily infiltrated by the KGB and STASI at all levels. And the Greens were one of the main supporters of these demonstrations. I also remember that several founders/leaders of the party commited suicide in the early 90s when their connections to the Soviets were revealed.
I have clearly been sufficiently feminized by our society because the notion of volunteering to go and fight another country's war is quite literally the fucking stupidest thing I can possibly imagine, and I'm a cog in the machine of America's immigration system so I know from fucking stupid.
I agree with Soldo, I am not on Twitter, and this sounds ridiculous. I will conjecture that it sounds ridiculous to many people who are on Twitter. What I object to is the comparison by Soldo and others of Twitter as a public square or commons as if there were ever some halcyon days in the past where citizens gathered in the park to discuss current political affairs. There were days when people gathered in the public square, but it was usually to watch people tarred and feathered or placed in the stocks or even burned as a witch. The idea that Twitter is a common is horse hockey, or is it puckey, well it’s horse shit anyway.
Consider what would happen if the people on Twitter gathered in a public park, to discuss. Based on the tweets I have seen and the things other have written about Twitter one of two things would happen. No one would say a word because they would be too cowardly to say the things they tweeted to a person’s face or there would be a riot. There have been times when people with fiercely held views met in fields, Gettysburg and Antietam spring to mind. I guess there is a small chance that people would have deep thoughtful discussions about serious issues but then you couldn’t compare it to Twitter.
I think Soldo is exaggerating Twitter’s power and influence. There aren’t enough people on Twitter for it to matter all that much to most Americans. It is mostly for activists and Journalists. There is a special bubble that pundits, Substackers included, reside in where they also exaggerate their power and influence. The fact that it is loaded with Journos may account for the influence Soldo attributes to it, but most people today distrust the media. For the first time in my life, I don’t know who to believe anymore. If you cast a wide net, you get different opinions and facts and must rely on you best judgement to decide what makes sense. Substack is great for casting a net, Twitter is a dark cave that everyone would be better staying out off. Musk won't change that.
Why is tablet mag objectively better than any of its Cathedral counterparts? Tablet is clearly part of the cathedral, yet it seems to diverge on many of the major issues. Is tablet mag's existence itself, a turning point regarding the openness of the existence of disaffected elites?
Interesting article on the German Greens and their militarism. What sort of person volunteers for the German military nowadays? Are they mostly conservative in the same sense that you see in the US? If so, I would imagine that there is animosity towards the German Greens amongst the rank and file.
Hit the like button and use the share button to share this across social media. Leave a comment if the mood strikes you, and don't forget to subscribe if you haven't already.
Regarding the German Greens acting as the proxies for American power, I saw recently (probably Telegram so YMMV) that the various Green parties around the world are members of some sort of policy compact, with the de facto effect that they all serve as one global party. They're a minor party everywhere, but minor parties generally exert at least indirect influence by forcing the larger, politically adjacent parties to adopt some of their policies. So, the Greens act in effect as a vector for globalism to influence national politics around the world in a coordinated fashion. Certainly not the only vector but their role deserves some scrutiny. And of course, one can well imagine that if the Greens started to form governments at the national level, they would immediately start ceding sovereignty to international NGOs at an even faster rate than has already been the case.
I have read in a number of different places that for things to really change, some portion of the ruling elite must break with the ruling orthodoxy. It is not enough for the resistance to resist, they must also persuade, some meaningful portion of the ruling class need be persuaded that change is necessary. So, our hypothesis is Elon has backers, that is good, that’s the beginning, yes?
What is the resistance against? Wesley Yang calls it “successor ideology” and “authoritarian utopianism”. I say it is the abandonment of common sense, tradition, and the knowledge that has been passed down to us from previous generations,and I say, if we forget, we repeat -“lest we forget”.
The problem with successor ideology is that by abandoning what we have learned in the quest too eliminate all barriers we lose more than we gain. Some barriers are in fact guard rails and provide a margin of safety. The mad rush to counter all power structures, eliminate all barriers leaves us alone and bereft: terrifying aloneness. Why the rush? Why not except that those who came before us have wisdom to teach us? This is religious fever and history is replete with examples of where that leads, so once again, lest we forget.
Another great post, Niccolo.
The German Greens are following a pattern established by Trotskyist and Western Maoist groups in the 20th c. many of which functioned as agents of influence on the Far Left for the CIA.
The upheavals of the 60s anticipate the Colour Revolutions of the post Cold War era. In 1968 French radicals, Marxists at odds with the pro-Moscow Communist Party, helped drive De Gaulle from power.
An extraordinary proportion of the leading figures involved in the Paris upheavals of ‘68 went on to become neo-liberals and enthusiastic supporters of US foreign policy. Coincidence theorists might reasonably infer that this was no accident.
The same is true in the UK. The industrial militancy of the 70s was led in many instances by Trotskyist and Maoist activists as part of a campaign against pro-Moscow rivals. It also helped undermine Harold Wilson whose removal from office was a major priority of the US and UK intelligence services.
Blair’s New Labour was top-heavy with onetime Trotskyists. A few years ago, Peter Hitchens, brother of the late Christopher, outed Tony Blair himself as a onetime Trot.
The Far Left is a great nursery for political talent: the right kind of radicals (those who crave belonging, can stick to the party line no matter what and are desperate for agency) are useful once they have been turned. This is easily done.
The German Greens started out as radicals. Now they are agents of influence for Washington pushing deindustrialisation, compliance with the State Department, social credit via ESG and green-camouflaged crony-capitalism.
Your links/roundup for the week are always a highlight for me. Thank you.
If you were 21 again Niccolo, would you join International Legion for adventure or would politics weigh against it?
That Norman brigade article was fascinating. I knew a lot of the UKR foreign volunteers were green and badly equipped, but that's on another level. Still, Sonnenrad tattoo and enlisting gullible Canadians as human shields for his wife and child? Guy's basically living the dream of the average TRS paywall subscriber.
The Pancho Villa mythology is something you cannot escape as Hispanics grow in population here in the US. He's the namesake of the local more upscale Mexican place in my town for example. Been there enough to pick up they are probably at least partially a money laundering op for Cartel affiliates, so maybe the owners are just being cheeky. Lots of guys showing up to make deliveries at the bar in the between hours middle of lunch and dinner(I work odd hours). Reminds me of Italian types running "business" out of the back of their own ethnic restaurants in the movies.
The Greens have a history of support for both sides. I remember an interview from some major Western newspaper with a high-ranking ex-Soviet intelligence officer after the fall of the USSR in the early 1990s. He openly admitted that the massive demonstrations and riots of 1981/2 due to the deployment of Pershing2 nuclear missiles on the territory of West Germany were heavily infiltrated by the KGB and STASI at all levels. And the Greens were one of the main supporters of these demonstrations. I also remember that several founders/leaders of the party commited suicide in the early 90s when their connections to the Soviets were revealed.
I have clearly been sufficiently feminized by our society because the notion of volunteering to go and fight another country's war is quite literally the fucking stupidest thing I can possibly imagine, and I'm a cog in the machine of America's immigration system so I know from fucking stupid.
I agree with Soldo, I am not on Twitter, and this sounds ridiculous. I will conjecture that it sounds ridiculous to many people who are on Twitter. What I object to is the comparison by Soldo and others of Twitter as a public square or commons as if there were ever some halcyon days in the past where citizens gathered in the park to discuss current political affairs. There were days when people gathered in the public square, but it was usually to watch people tarred and feathered or placed in the stocks or even burned as a witch. The idea that Twitter is a common is horse hockey, or is it puckey, well it’s horse shit anyway.
Consider what would happen if the people on Twitter gathered in a public park, to discuss. Based on the tweets I have seen and the things other have written about Twitter one of two things would happen. No one would say a word because they would be too cowardly to say the things they tweeted to a person’s face or there would be a riot. There have been times when people with fiercely held views met in fields, Gettysburg and Antietam spring to mind. I guess there is a small chance that people would have deep thoughtful discussions about serious issues but then you couldn’t compare it to Twitter.
I think Soldo is exaggerating Twitter’s power and influence. There aren’t enough people on Twitter for it to matter all that much to most Americans. It is mostly for activists and Journalists. There is a special bubble that pundits, Substackers included, reside in where they also exaggerate their power and influence. The fact that it is loaded with Journos may account for the influence Soldo attributes to it, but most people today distrust the media. For the first time in my life, I don’t know who to believe anymore. If you cast a wide net, you get different opinions and facts and must rely on you best judgement to decide what makes sense. Substack is great for casting a net, Twitter is a dark cave that everyone would be better staying out off. Musk won't change that.
My comment is this article should by all rights garner waaay more likes.
SAD!
Why is tablet mag objectively better than any of its Cathedral counterparts? Tablet is clearly part of the cathedral, yet it seems to diverge on many of the major issues. Is tablet mag's existence itself, a turning point regarding the openness of the existence of disaffected elites?
Interesting article on the German Greens and their militarism. What sort of person volunteers for the German military nowadays? Are they mostly conservative in the same sense that you see in the US? If so, I would imagine that there is animosity towards the German Greens amongst the rank and file.
We really need this guy to be able to run for POTUS.
His tweets are better than Trumps
"next I'll buy Coke to put the cocaine back in"